FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COAST 97 



E. C. Wilson, Denver, Colo., season 1905 36 



* A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1906 34 



* Arthur J. Eddy, Chicago, 111., season 1906 34 



* Mrs. E. H. Brewster, Avalon, season 1907 53 



* S. A. Barron, San Dimas, Cal., season 1908... 40 



* A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1908 40 



f A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1909 46^4 



* J. W. Frey, Los Angeles, Cal., winter season 



1909-10 



* Benjamin Thaw, Pittsburg, Pa., season 1910.. 44 

 *A. E. Eaton, Avalon, winter season 1910-11... 38 



THE DOLPHIN 



(Coryphaena hippurus) 



The dolphin is one of the most beautiful of all 

 fishes, its colors, ranging from yellow to green and 

 gold, making a glorious show as the fish rises to the 

 surface. It is a long, round- or dome-headed fish 

 with a splendid dorsal fin from head to tail, which can 

 be elevated like a crest or depressed. It is swift of 

 movement, brilliant in color, and almost as hard a 

 fighter as a yellowtail. It appears at the channel 

 islands of California in spring and remains until Oc- 

 tober. It is taken with a nine-ounce rod, trolling as 

 for yellowtail, or I have seen several lying beneath the 

 islands of kelp which float off these islands in sum- 

 mer, and, by casting with sardine bait, they could be 

 taken with ease, though the fish is among the very 

 rare catches and, so far as known, taken with the rod 

 nowhere else. It is a world-wide fish, found out at 

 sea in all oceans, swimming by ships at the cutwater. 



I have taken the fish in the sargasso beds of the 

 Florida Strait, out at sea. The dolphin attains a 

 length of five or six feet. There is a smaller species 



