Fishing in Southern California 



In Southern California the water in the morning is 

 often smooth, but in the afternoon the wind rises and 

 the sea comes in. To enable fishermen to reach the 

 fishing and retain their equipoise, many towns and 

 resorts, as Santa Monica, Long Beach, Redondo, 

 Ocean Park, Terminal and Coronado, have built 

 long and expensive piers, which are well patronized 

 by anglers, who fish with long bamboo poles, stout 

 enough to lift a heavy fish, and handlines, and catch 

 surf fish, mackerel, and other small fishes. At Re- 

 dondo, because of the setting in of a deep channel, 

 yellowtail and sea bass are caught from the high 

 pier, and occasionally a black sea bass. At Coro- 

 nado the fishing at the pier is for yellow-fin, surf 

 fish and small shore fishes. To obtain larger game 

 the angler goes offshore from one to three miles with 

 the professional fishermen, or to the entrance of the 

 fine bay. 



This wharf-fishing is eminently satisfactory to the 

 angler whose piscatorial fancy is whetted by small 

 fry, yellow-fin and surf fish, which can be lifted in 

 by the pole ; but California has a series of large game 

 fishes which afford all the sport of the salmon, the 

 muskellunge, the bluefish and the tarpon ; and to take 

 them in a sportsmanlike manner, with the lightest 

 lines and rods, requires smooth water and small 

 boats, and to find these one must go to the Southern 

 Californian islands, where the equipment and environ- 

 ment are perfect. These islands, beginning north of 



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