SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



Whereas the baits used on the Atlantic 

 Coast are menhaden, lobster, eels, shedder 

 crabs, and bloodworms, on the Pacific Coast 

 the fish are taken on the Wilson spoon, 

 which was invented for this purpose, and 

 with crab, herring, and a local fish called 

 bull-head. 



Little seems to be known about the habits 

 of these transplanted fish. They seem to 

 remain in the same waters the year around, 

 yet most of the large fish are taken in 

 November and December. 



It is the most interesting case of the trans- 

 planting of seafish that I know of and if the 

 restrictions had not been removed the 

 striped bass fishing in San Francisco Bay 

 would be justly celebrated and there would 

 have been no scarcity of striped bass in the 

 fish markets of California. 



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