SEA BASS. 

 Centropnstris atrarins. 



SANTA CRUZ. 



Santa Cruz is only eighty miles by Southern Pacific Company's rail 

 from San Francisco, and for many reasons has at all times been a place of 

 popular resort from the metropolis. Sportsmen are especially welcome and 

 are made to feel that they are so. It offers great variety of scenery of 

 valley and mountain, woodland and plain, ocean beach and running 

 brooks, and can easily induce a second visit by huntsman or angler. 

 The bay fishing at Santa Cruz is almost identical with that at Monterey, 

 and the troller can calculate with certainty on all the salmon and other 

 ocean and estuary fish he may desire. Exceptional catches of salmon 

 are sometimes made reaching twenty-five or thirty of an aggregate weight 

 of 350 pounds to a single day of rod and line, but the sportsman can be cer- 

 tain at all times of reasonable success. Fine trout streams in the moun- 



SEA PIKE. 



Esox marinus. 



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