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At Monterey Bay they are frequently found, and he 

 who gets one on his trolling line will have the liveliest 

 work of his experience ; and, as with the tuna, it is full 

 of irregular actions, and unexpected turns, and may 

 suddenly, when apparently bound for some distant 

 clime, come with a rush for the boat faster than one 

 can reel up, and double on the- line and mix itself 

 up in a most unusual manner. 



Monterey Bay is certainly a most attractive area 

 for the fisherman's sport, and without the salmon 

 his chances are most favorable in trolling to strike 

 some fish which will give him delight. It may be 

 a shark or a sea bass, or a barracuda, blue-fish, or cod 

 or flounder. Perhaps he will strike a school of 

 mackerel, from which he can take in a score or more. 

 It is estimated that in the bay there are over a 

 hundred varieties of fishes, and it is not uncommon to 

 see a whale in the offing, or perhaps within a few 

 hundred feet of a boat, as I have seen them as near 

 when trolling. A young one of twenty-five feet in 

 length made himself unusually familiar for several 

 days in the cove of the bay a mile out from the pier, a 

 place popular with the ground fishermen, whom he 

 alarmed with his playful ways, and one day bumped 

 roughly against one of the boats, and was shot at a 

 number of times, which he resented by taking his 

 departure. 



The grampus, belonging to the whale family, are 

 quite common in the bay, and have frequently an- 

 noyed me when salmon trolling by their familiarity, 

 coming up and diving near my boat, particularly one 

 of them, which made his rendezvous off the shore in 

 a locality I usually passed over on my way to the 



