STRIPED BASS IN PACIFIC 



mission discovered its mistake too late, for 

 in a few years' time few fish remained. 



In later years they have renewed the re- 

 strictions by closing some of the bay sloughs 

 to fishermen and not allowing any fish to 

 be taken under three pounds in weight, and 

 the fish are now increasing and afford good 

 sport. 



In 1903 one and a quarter cents a pound 

 was the price in the market but it has risen 

 so that twenty cents a pound is now often 

 paid, for it took some years to establish the 

 fact that the striped bass as a table fish com- 

 pares favorably with the salmon and the 

 other seafish of the Pacific Ocean. 



The largest fish taken that I have record 

 of weighed 62% pounds and I have heard 

 of several fish that weighed over fifty 

 pounds. 



The method of fishing for them is trolling 

 as they seem to be found only in the bay 

 and in the sloughs and rivers that empty 

 into the bay. 



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