Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



sides are a rich olive brown in the water, chang- 

 ing in the sunlight to a bright iridescent blue, the 

 lower part being of a pearly silver. Yellow tails 

 are voracious feeders, devouring immense numbers 

 of smelts, flying fish, anchovies, and sardines. 

 They are often attracted and kept along- 

 side the boat by "chumming" in both 

 trolling and casting, or drifting. Like many other 

 fish in this locality they arrive about the month of 

 May in large schools, and then break up into small 

 companies, of greater or less numbers, running 

 North as far as Santa Barbara, and South as far 

 as the shallow bays of lower California. 



Many anglers make a visit to the Islands Santa 

 Catalina and San Clemente, on purpose to get ac- 

 quainted with larger game, but if the season per- 

 mits they rarely go away without trying con- 

 clusions with the yellow tail and they are not 

 disappointed in the result. For that 

 Fishing reason a typical style of boat and boat- 

 man has developed specially adapted 

 for this fishing. Gasoline launches from sixteen to 

 twenty feet are run by the boatman who acts as 

 engineer, guide, and gaffer; the boat has two chair 

 seats at and facing the stern, though the angler 

 may play the fish standing should he prefer or 

 work better that way. 



The tackle used is similar to that suited to tuna 



fishing; the rod not longer than eight feet, 



weighing not over twenty-five ounces, 



the line being a No. 15, or in some instances a 12- 



strand Cuttyhunk from 300 to 400 feet long. The 



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