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the rod and reel craft, and to give the best advan- 

 tages we can for fishing." 



The coast of Louisiana abounds in localities 

 where the tarpon and other fishes can be taken ; 

 New Orleans having many ardent anglers who 

 are devoted to the rod and reel. 



Los Angeles is the central point for anglers 

 going to the fishing resorts of Southern California. 

 The tuna grounds are at Santa Catalina Island, 

 twenty-five miles offshore, reached from San 

 Pedro, twenty miles by rail from Los Angeles, 

 by the Southern Pacific, Salt Lake railroads, and 

 an electric road, there being from one to three 

 steamers daily in summer and one in winter. 

 Avalon, the port of Santa Catalina, is three and 

 one-half hours from Los Angeles and has a 

 summer population of five or six thousand and 

 about fifteen hundred in winter. Hotels, cot- 

 tages, boarding-houses, and numerous professional 

 boatmen make this the best-equipped angling 

 resort in the country, comfort being considered, 

 there being no hot weather, mosquitoes, or pests 

 of any kind, winter or summer, and that essential 

 for tuna-fishing, smooth water. 



San Clemente Island, twenty-two miles distant 

 to the southwest, can be reached by chartered 



