32 Big Game Fishes 



spring. The settling up the country at the 

 mouth of the Colorado will undoubtedly develop 

 a new field for the angler and sportsman in this 

 section of California or Mexico. 



A smaller species of white sea-bass, C. parvi- 

 pinnis, is known as sea-trout and bluefish along 

 the Californian coast, and has been found from 

 Mazatlan to San Luis Obispo. At Newport, San 

 Pedro, and Avalon it is a valuable fish, taken in 

 nets and often caught by anglers. The largest 

 specimen I have landed weighed about twelve or 

 fourteen pounds, and was about two feet long. It 

 differs in appearance from the other species. Its 

 back is a decided blue, resembling that of the yel- 

 lowtail out of water. The body is long and slen- 

 der, with a striking resemblance to its cousin the 

 Eastern weakfish. Altogether, with its vivid 

 silvery belly, blue back, yellow lower fins, it is one 

 of the most attractive of the Southern Californian 

 fishes which fall to the lot of the man with the 

 rod. It is not a common catch, and is taken with 

 small sardines with rod, line, and hooks described 

 for sea-trout. All these fishes are the Pacific 

 representatives of the Atlantic weakfish, or 

 squeteague, C. regalis, which every sea-angler 

 has taken along the Atlantic seaboard. 



