102 FISHES OF THE PACIFIC COAST 



is lowered by means of a sinker, and trolled slowly 

 along. In rod fishing the sinker is made detachable 

 and comes off as soon as the salmon is hooked. The 

 fish do not jump to any great extent, but are very 

 game and afford fascinating and attractive sport. The 

 salmon range up to forty or fifty pounds, but the 

 average catch of the writer has been about thirty. 



STRIPED BASS 

 (Roccus lineatus) 



Some years ago striped bass were introduced into 

 Sacramento River from the East, and have taken their 

 place as the game fish par excellence of what may be 

 called the San Francisco region. They are trolled for 

 with spoons on the flats and fished for with bait suc- 

 cessfully in various parts of the great bay. That the 

 fish are migrating is shown by the fact that several 

 have been taken in the Southern California waters, 

 five hundred miles away. 



TROUT 



A large volume could be written on the fresh-water 

 game fishes of the Pacific coast alone, as they range 

 from the Alaska grayling to the rainbow trout and 

 steelhead; but as this volume is merely intended as 

 a picture book of fishes, with minimum description, 

 the reader is referred to the large works of Jordan and 

 others, referred to in the appendix. 



The rainbow trout is the native fish. It is found in 

 all the streams of California that amount to anything 

 down into Mexico, and has been carried all over the 



