Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



the water than those of the blue-fish; they spring 

 above the surface and are visible at a long distance; 

 they are attended by the same schools of scream- 

 ing gulls and terns, and leave in their track 

 similar "slicks" of oil and blood. 



The bonito is caught on the surface of deep 

 water in the open ocean by exactly similar bait 

 and tackle to that used for the blue-fish; its play 

 is much the same and its resistance quite as strong. 

 Its flesh may be ranked among the many 

 excellent food fishes of our coast, and is a worthy 

 rival of the Spanish mackerel and the sheeps- 

 head. 



On the Pacific Coast, the albacore is consid- 

 ered an understudy of the tuna, which it much 

 resembles, both in activity and agility, often seiz- 

 ing the bait intended for tuna. It is one of the 

 commonest fishes of the Pacific waters, found in 

 nearly all tropical seas, but not caught on the 

 Atlantic Coast, and rarely seen. It grows up 

 to a weight of sixty-five pounds; the adult fish, 

 while it is caught near the island shores, never 

 approaches the mainland, being found from two 

 to five miles out. Always present in vast num- 

 bers, feeding and leaping from the water, it is a 

 constant menace to the small fish. The rush of 

 the school of albacores, as they charge the flying 

 fishes, invariably arouses the angling community. 

 The commercial catch is large and important in 

 all the sea-shore towns from San Diego to Santa 

 Cruz. As sport, all find it a paying employ- 

 ment, and go from five to seven miles out to sea, 

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