A New Game Fish 



over seventy anglers who wear the blue button of the 

 Tuna Club, showing that they have taken a one- 

 hundred-pound tuna or over with the rod, reel and line 

 (2i-thread line) specified by the Tuna Club. Many 

 anglers have taken specimens weighing up to one hun- 

 dred pounds and over in ten, fifteen or twenty minutes, 

 some in five minutes (female fishes, exhausted by 

 spawning) , but the vigorous fish, the typical tuna of 

 one hundred and fifty pounds, in its best condition, is 

 more than a match for the average angler. 



The tuna of large size is the exception; but the 

 yellow-fin of fifty or sixty pounds, five hundred of 

 which were caught last season, without question 

 affords great sport and less real labor to the majority 

 of anglers. One big tuna satisfies the soul of the 

 average angler, but the fifty-pound yellow-fins, when 

 played on the light thread-like line from one to two 

 hours, have opened up a new field of sport. 



The tuna and albacore are wandering fishes, found 

 over wide areas. They move north and south with 

 the seasons, appearing in the Pacific in spring or sum- 

 mer and leaving when the rains come, or in December 

 or earlier, and sometimes do not come at all. 



In August or September the fishing is at its best, 

 and in the lee of the great island of Santa Catalina 

 vast schools of yellow-tail, tuna, bonita and albacore 

 congregate to prey upon the schools of small fry, 

 sardines, anchovies, smelt and flying fishes, which are 

 there to spawn in the shallow bays which form the 



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