The Man Behind the Angler 



bles a gun carriage of the time of Paul Jones. 

 Harnessed to this was an old white horse, said to 

 have belonged sometime in the past to a noted bandit. 

 The first time I saw this team Johnny came down the 

 canon road sitting en the barrel an outfit so remark- 

 able and original that I can think of him in no other 

 connection. 



Among the Avalon fishermen is Vincente Moriche, 

 a Venetian who employs a number of others, skilled 

 men, while Percy Neal, a clever gaffer, boatman and 

 guide, and many more are all men who know every 

 foot of these islands and every fishing-ground along 

 its shores. On the Fourth of July these men display 

 their brawn by having a tug-of-war with five boats 

 on a side, ranged along the shore, where several 

 thousand people cheer and encourage them. 



Almost every locality where angling is the vogue, 

 from San Diego to Avalon, to Monterey where 

 salmon are caught on the Pacific coast, and from the 

 Restigouche to Texas on the Gulf, boatmen are found 

 who, by their knowledge of the best localities, make 

 sport what it is to the weary business man who steals 

 away to the sea or the woodland solitudes for a few 

 weeks in summer. 



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