Preface 



The Tuna Club record is 165 pounds, with rod and 

 reel. Certain boatmen last season felt it incumbent to 

 cut away from this uncertain game, and this season 

 the Tuna Club offers a loving cup for the largest 

 catch and for the angler who does not retreat before 

 the supposed charge of the swordsman of the sea. In 

 imagination we see future anglers for the game going 

 out in armor. 



In the chapter on a new game fish is described 

 what Dr. Jordan said to the author, u was a new link 

 between America and Japan." This splendid game 

 fish the yellow-fin tuna appeared suddenly and for 

 the first time in American waters in 1905, and has 

 afforded marvelous sport at the channel island during 

 August and September ever since, over five hundred 

 being taken with rod and reel. But a few years ago 

 all large fishes were taken with handlines. Now the 

 rod is in evidence, and at Santa Catalina during the 

 present month a 25<D-pound black sea bass was taken 

 on a number-nine line and a nine-ounce rod, typifying 

 the fact that fair play for all game is the motto among 

 gentlemen anglers everywhere. The following chap- 

 ters have appeared in various magazines in this coun- 

 try and in England in The Outing Magazine, Rec- 

 reation, Metropolitan, Outlook, Badminton, Forest 

 and Stream, McClure's, The London Field, Cosmo- 

 politan, etc. 



C. F. H. 



