to the markets or to friends in San Francisco and other nearby cities, and 

 the boats made ready for the next day's sport. 



A very prolific rock-fishing ground was lately discovered in the waters 

 of the bay a few miles south of Light-House Point, and large catches of 

 rockfish are now being made on these grounds. 



The best seasons for fishing in Monterey Bay for sea-bass, bonita, bar- 

 racuda, smelt, sole, and flounder is from May to December, for salmon 

 from May to September 17th, for mackerel from July to October. Perch, 

 rockfish, kingfish, and cuitus cod are found in the waters of the bay at all 

 seasons of the year. 



The people of Santa Cruz County, appreciating the Importance of per- 

 petuating the supply of salmon in the waters of Monterey Bay and of trout 

 in the thirty odd streams in the county, in 1905 established a fish hatchery 

 at Brookdale, on Clear Creek, a short distance north of the city of Santa 

 Cruz. The success that has already been obtained by this hatchery has 

 attracted the attention of fish culturists all over the country. From this 

 hatchery during the past two years have been liberated exclusively in the 

 waters of Monterey Bay and in the streams of the county many millions 

 of trout, quinnat, and Silver salmon fry. The Silver salmon is the smallest, 

 as well as a new species of game and food fish, on the Pacific Coast, and 

 its Introduction into the waters of Monterey Bay is an experiment that is 

 being carried on by Mr. Frank Shebley, superintendent of the Santa Cruz 

 County Fish Hatchery, in connection with the United States Fish Com- 

 mission. At the hatchery, at the present time, are upwards of 2,000,000 

 trout and salmon fry. These fish will be liberated in the streams of the 

 county and in the waters of Monterey Bay during the summer months. 

 During the fall and winter months 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 salmon eggs will 

 be hatched and the fry liberated in the bay. The eggs from which the 

 trout are hatched are of the Steelhead trout variety, and are all secured in 

 the streams of the county from wild trout. No trout are spawned that 

 weigh less than five pounds, and many weigh as much as eighteen or 

 twenty pounds. The eggs from which the salmon are hatched are secured 

 from the United States Fish Commission spawning station, situated at 

 Baird, on the McCloud River. 



At Santa Cruz the angler can be insured of the finest and most varied 

 angling from sea-run fish to be had on the Pacific Coast, as well as experi- 

 encing the pleasures of trout fishing in the thirty odd streams in the county. 

 As the Santa Cruz County Fish Hatchery will forever supply the streams 

 and the bay, so will the city of the Holy Cross and surrounding towns be 

 over-run with the man of the rod and reel. 



FISHING AND FISHERIES OF 

 HUMBOLDT 



GBORGE A. KELLOGG 

 Secretary Humbolilt Chamber of Commerce, Bnreka 



AMONG all the sections of this favored State none is more favorably 

 situated for furnishing abundance and variety of fishing for the 

 sportsman and for the commercial fisherman than is Humboldt 

 County. Situated on the northwestern coast of California, with one 

 hundred and twenty miles of bold and rugged coast line; with a land- 

 locked bay of twenty-eight square miles of tidal area; with a half dozen 

 rivers of greater or less Importance flowing directly into the sea, and in- 

 numerable smaller streams as feeders and branches, which flow throughout 

 the year by reason of the abundant and well distributed rainfall, which 

 never fails in this section, — surely one need not look farther for a conjunc- 

 tion of all the favorable conditions which tend to produce ideal fishing 

 grounds. 



