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equipped with figures. Then other boats could be shown in photographs. 

 All the dealers in fishing boats would contribute cuts or photographs of their 

 models and equipment, such as steel fishing boats, the engines used in modern 

 fishing boats, etc. 



In the section relating to bait for game fishes I would show "cast" and 

 other nets, flying-fish gill nets, etc., used by boatmen to catch bait, the colored 

 cotton lures used by Japanese in America for sardines, etc. In a corner I would 

 have a complete photographic set of California game fishes, showing the angler 

 standing with the fish, and the exact tackle used. 



Next I would show photographs or models of famous angling clubhouses, 

 as Tuna Club, Aransas Pass Tarpon Club, Asbury Park Club, New York Club, 

 Salmon Club, California Light Tackle Club; and in the guides would be found 

 the estimated value of club houses. For example, Avalon, Cal., has the $7,000 

 house of the Tuna Club; the two angling clubs there have 2,000 members and 

 $1,500 in cups; the boatmen have $150,000 invested in angling boats, glass- 

 bottom boats, and others, all relating to sport. Over 175,000 persons go to 

 this place every year for the fishing alone. Transportation to the island and 

 back costs $2.50, living expenses $2 to $10 a day, and from $5 to $10 per day 

 is expended for hire of guides and launch; all of which amounts to a large sum, 

 representing the economic value of the sport at this one island. A collection 

 of photographs of the famous angling piers of the Pacific coast could be shown. 

 Some of these cost $100,000 and are given over entirely to the angler. 



In one section of the sport appliances I would show all kinds of spears, as 

 grain, harpoons, turtle pegs, floats, lances, etc., shark harpoons, etc., and every 

 appliance used in taking a game fish in sport. This collection could be aug- 

 mented by photographs of anglers taken at the great angling tournaments of 

 the country, as that of the California Tuna Club, from May to October, and the 

 various casting tournaments of the trout, bass, and salmon clubs. There 

 should be in this hall copies (photographs) of the most famous paintings of 

 trout, salmon, etc., by the best artists, and series of photographs could be given 

 showing the peculiar economic uses to which game and other fishes are put, 

 such as the light of the candlefish, tarpon scales as post cards, fish scales in art, 

 shark skin as leather, ear stones of white sea bass (California) as jewelry, etc., 

 eyes of Santa Catalina fish as pearls, hardened by a peculiar process. In con- 

 nection with the exhibit of game fish tackle I would have a case or collection 

 called "ancient angling appliances." Here I would show the fishing tackle of the 

 ancient Americans, as, for California, the abalone hooks, and others in all stages 

 of making from the circular disk to the punctured disk, and then the complete 

 hook as found in the mounds; hooks with the barb on the outside; the kelp line; 

 spears used for fishing, bone, stone, wood; fish clubs of whalebone; in fact, make 



