FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COAST n 



Fifth The lakes and streams of the Sierra Madre, 

 and the streams of Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los 

 Angeles counties, in Southern California. 



Sixth The Santa Catalina Islands, off Los Angeles, 

 eighteen miles from the city. 



Seventh San Diego Bay, Coronado, the Coronado 

 Islands, offshore. 



Eighth The long sandy beaches of Redondo, Long 

 Beach, Santa Monica, Huntington Beach, Del Mar, 

 Newport and other places, affording excellent surf 

 fish for angling, the angler casting from the beach 

 or pier for the various fishes which affect the surf. 



SANTA CATALINA 



This region embraces several thousand square miles, 

 including the islands of Santa Catalina, San Clemente, 

 San Nicholas and Santa Barbara. Santa Catalina 

 is about eighteen miles from Los Angeles at its nearest 

 point, but the Port of Avalon, on the east end, is about 

 thirty-two miles distant. The island is twenty-two 

 miles long. It runs northwest and southeast, prac- 

 tically parallel to Los Angeles County, off Long Beach, 

 San Pedro, Newport, Bolsa Chica, Alamitos and other 

 places, and gives a lee for anglers of nearly twenty 

 miles. The island is a mountain range, and the bays 

 are the mouths of attractive canyons /vhich wind up 

 into the interior. 



The island has an area of about fifty-five thousand 

 acres, a fine coach road running almost its entire 

 length, with trails over its mountains half a mile 

 above the sea. It is a park, a garden at sea, winter 

 and summer, as so remarkable is the climate that the 



