12 FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COAST 



islands bloom and blossom during the Eastern winter, 

 and are delightful in the summer. 



None of the islands, except Santa Catalina, are open 

 to the public without a permit, and none, except Santa 

 Catalina, have a regular boat service. The latter is a 

 port of Los Angeles County, and has a regular town of 

 eight or nine thousand inhabitants in summer, and 

 daily ocean steamers, one in winter and three in sum- 

 mer. There are hotels, boarding-houses, camps, cot- 

 tages, in fact, every facility for the visiting angler to 

 live either luxuriously or economically. The town 

 abounds in shops, and at a long boatman's pier lie 

 scores of fine craft which add to the pleasure of the 

 angler, and from ten to thirty can be counted any day 

 in season trolling along shore thirty miles out at sea, 

 yet in water perfectly smooth. 



ANGLING BOATS 



The entire life of the islands of Santa Catalina is 

 based upon sport. The local shipyard builds boats 

 adapted for the special purpose, eighteen feet long, 

 launches of from ten to forty horsepower, with en- 

 gines amidship and seats for the anglers facing the 

 stern, with rods out to the right and left. There is 

 also a fleet of glass-bottom boats for viewing the fish, 

 and the famous beauties of the seaweed. Some of 

 these hold several hundred people, and are valued at 

 from ten thousand to thirty thousand dollars. The 

 angling launches range in value from eight hundred 

 to thirty-five hundred dollars. There are also many 

 small row-boats, yachts, racing-boats, etc. 



