32 Big Game Fishes 
spring. The settling up the country at the 
mouth of the Colorado will undoubtedly develop 
a new field for the angler and sportsman in this 
section of California or Mexico. 
A smaller species of white sea-bass, C. parvz- 
pinnts, is known as sea-trout and bluefish along 
the Californian coast, and has been found from 
Mazatlan to San Luis Obispo. At Newport, San 
Pedro, and Avalon it is a valuable fish, taken in 
nets and often caught by anglers. The largest 
specimen I have landed weighed about twelve or 
fourteen pounds, and was about two feet long. It 
differs in appearance from the other species. Its 
back is a decided blue, resembling that of the yel- 
lowtail out of water. The body is long and slen- 
der, with a striking resemblance to its cousin the 
Eastern weakfish. Altogether, with its vivid 
silvery belly, blue back, yellow lower fins, it is one 
of the most attractive of the Southern Californian 
fishes which fall to the lot of the man with the 
rod. It is not a common catch, and is taken with 
small sardines with rod, line, and hooks described 
for sea-trout. All these fishes are the Pacific 
representatives of the Atlantic weakfish, or 
squeteague, C. vegalis, which every sea-angler 
has taken along the Atlantic seaboard. 
