link. Gross feeding and easy pond-life enervate and deprave him. The 

 trout that the children will know only by legend is the gold-sprinkled 

 living arrow of the white water, able to zigzag up the cataract, able to 

 loiter in the rapids, whose dainty meat is the glancing butterfly. " 



President Jordan then adds: "But on the Pacific Slope the rivers 

 are still many and the anglers few. The * trout-hog ' is with us, but 

 Mother Nature is too much for him. For a hundred generations she will 

 be strong enough to make good whatever mischief he may do. In 

 writing of the trout of California, one does not willingly lay down the pen 

 at the end. The most beautiful of fishes, the most charming of lands, 

 where the two are connected one wishes to say something better of them 

 than has yet been said. It is with regret he lets fall the pen in a confession of 

 inability to say it." It is no exaggeration to claim that California has 

 thousands ot streams the banks of which have never received the impress 

 of human foot. There are unsurveyed regions known to contain such, and 

 Mr. Reed's Nameless River may well be there. 



The California State Board of Fish Commissioners in its thirteenth 

 biennial report, page 20, says: " Tributary to Russian River there are upward 

 of fifteen hundred miles of trout water" It should be said to the non-resident 

 reader, that in comparison with other waters in the State this Russian 

 River, with its fifteen hundred miles of trout water, cuts no large figure. 

 If withdrawn it would not be missed from ourfluviatile system. The trout 

 waters of California are never likely to sing small. We turn from 

 consideration of the inland fresh to the saline waters of the Pacific. Cali- 

 fornia's extended coast line, its outlying islands, numerous bays, channels 

 and estuaries combine to produce unrivaled sea-fishing. Most surprising 

 catches may be made in these waters almost anywhere. When a day's 

 trolling on the quiet Bay of Monterey, not two miles distant from the beach, 

 yields a catch of eighteen salmon of a combined weight of 286 pounds, it 

 may be feared that sport merges into commerce. 



Attractions for the gun are in no respect inferior to those for rod and 

 line. In the mountain fastnesses bear may be easily found grizzly and 

 black, and his congeners the brown and cinnamon deer in the foothill*-, 

 and quail everywhere ; snipe are very abundant, and in the season wild 

 geese in millions that imperil the fields of growing cereals, with ducks 

 in large variety, including mallard, canvasback, teal, etc., that give 

 bags of half a hundred and more to a day's shooting. Chinese pheasants 



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