The Black Sea-bass 115 
being held by Harrison T. Kendall of Pasadena, 
with a fish weighing four hundred and nineteen 
pounds. The second largest was taken by Mr. 
F. S. Schenck of Brooklyn, New York, and 
weighed three hundred and eighty-four pounds. 
The tackle in vogue for this athletic and 
vigorous sport is similar to that required for 
tuna fishing. The same sized hook is used, a 
twenty-one-thread line, and a long eight or nine 
foot wire leader to prevent chafing, while above 
the leader or snell the line should be either doub- 
led or provided with a fifteen-foot upper leader 
of strong cod line. This is to give the boatman 
purchase when the fish has been brought to gaff, 
as it almost invariably lashes the water, hurling 
spray over boat and fishermen. 
As to the standing of the black sea-bass as a 
game fish there is much difference of opinion. 
Some claim that it is superior to the tuna, but 
in this I do not agree. I have taken possibly 
twenty bass of various sizes in hard hand-to- 
hand contests, and am fully impressed with their 
power; but in agility they do not compare with 
the tuna or tarpon. I should class the black sea- 
bass with the Florida jewfish and large black 
grouper, though it is much more active than the 
