192 Recreations of a Sportsman 



than to go out in Monterey Bay in July, August, 

 and September and follow the vast schools. The 

 fish appear in June or July and gather about 

 the mouths of the rivers, and in the great bay, 

 ready for the later ascent to the spawning 

 grounds. You may take your choice of places. 

 The little town of Monterey, the ancient capital 

 of California, is a charming place, and here is 

 a salmon fishery; hence the facts regarding the 

 fish can be had at first-hand, with an abundance 

 of boats to go out in, while the town and Del 

 Monte, a beautiful park, a veritable game pre- 

 serve, is a fascination in itself. Here are groves 

 of the restful Monterey cypress in whose shadows 

 are pools stocked with black bass, and reach- 

 ing away from this salmon fishers' paradise are 

 roads which might be a part of a city park, 

 which lead you down the picturesque coast to 

 the old mission or out toward the Gabilan range 

 where you climb steep trails, and in winter look 

 down upon one of the most extraordinary flower 

 gardens in the world acres^ miles of flowers 

 which fill the valleys and race away up to the 

 mountain chaparral, a blaze of color, making 

 the entire land a Field of the Cloth of Gold, and 

 in the centre a little lake of the deepest blue in 

 a setting of gold and green, purple and red. 

 Then there are the laurels, groves, forests of 

 them, filling the little canons. You see them 

 when you are casting for trout in the Carmelo, 



