ATTRACTIVE FISHING RESORTS 



It is possible that the day may come when man will 

 be so engrossed with the pursuit of the dollar that the 

 call of the wild will no longer quicken the pulsations 

 of his heart. But until that time does come, the wild 

 creatures of nature, whose pursuit affords the most 

 healthful and exhilarating pastime, will continue to lure 

 him to their haunts. 



"To sit on rocks and gaze o'er flood and fell; 



To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, 

 Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, 



And mortal feet hath ne'er, or rarely, been," 



will long continue to present a charm to all who love 

 the sublimity of the mountains, the beauty of the flower- 

 decked fields, or the awe-inspiring grandeur of the 

 ocean. 



To draw a bead on the antlered buck; to stop the 

 flight of the gamy quail; to land the denizen of the 

 mountain stream, or troll the ocean's depth for the 

 tuna, the salmon or the yellow-tail, furnishes a pastime 

 whose recollection draws one back again and again to 

 sit on nature's lap and listen to her teachings. The 

 recollection of these pleasures are locked in the treas- 

 ure vaults of the memory, where the wearings of time 

 can never erase them; for when the once firm step that 

 carried him proudly up the mountain's side shall falter 

 and become a palsied wreck of time, and the eye, 

 dimmed by the accumulated mists of years, shall see 

 clearly, only in retrospect, he will sit by his fire-side 

 in slippered feet, and, gazing down the long vistas of 

 the past, live over and over again in his reveries the 

 pleasures furnished by the forest, the field, the stream 

 and the ocean. 



Nothing would please me better than to describe here- 

 in the many places where, during a residence on the 

 Pacific Coast of more than half a century, I have en- 

 joyed these sports in the fullest .degree. But even the 

 merest mention of the almost innumerable hunting 

 grounds and trout streams, and the hundreds of moun- 

 tain and sea-side resorts, from Washington to Mexico, 

 would, of itself, make a volume of no mean size. I am, 

 therefore, restricted to the mention of only a few or 

 the more attractive places where good sea fishing can 

 be found, coupled with such accommodations and sur- 

 roundings as appeal to the discriminating pleasure 

 seeker. 



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