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possible advantage. If the reader desires data relating 

 to the vicious nature of swordfishes, he will find a list 

 of scores of boats and ships that were rammed, sunk 

 or damaged by them, compiled by Professor G. Brown 

 Goode, of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. 



Largest Swordfish (Tetrapturus mitsukurii) 

 Edward Llewellyn, Los Angeles, season 1903.... 125 



Ernest Fallon, Los Angeles, season 1905 128 



Geo. E. Pillsbury, Jr., Los Angeles, season 1908. . 138 



C. G. Conn, Elkhart, Ind., season 1909... 339 



John E. Stearns, Los Angeles, season 1910 392 



THE HALIBUT 



One flat fish, a cousin of the little sanddab, found in 

 California waters, is the halibut, which may be found 

 up to sixty or seventy pounds and is considered a game 

 fish. On the walls of the Tuna Club hangs a halibut 

 which weighs sixty pounds, taken by Mr. Rotherham 

 with what was literally a trout rod, after a fight of over 

 an hour. The halibut can be found on sandy bottoms 

 at the entrance to the mouths of the various canyons, 

 and is often taken when trolling, coming up after the 

 bait with a strange undulatory motion. The young 

 of these fishes, when born, have an eye on each side, 

 but as the fish grows and falls on its side, one eye 

 travels over, until, in the adult fish, we have the 

 two eyes on the top side. In some of the flat fishes 

 (flounders) of Japan the eye is said to pass through 

 instead of going around a remarkable fish story. 



It is impossible in the scope of this little book, 

 intended as the briefest possible handbook of the fishes 

 of the Pacific coast, of value to the angler, to do more 



