280 Big Game Fishes 
yellowtail anglers, are gulls and cormorants, and 
one fisherman distinguished himself by hooking 
a sea-eagle. Another played a young black- 
fish, which must have weighed half a ton, a 
second or two, while another angler’s hook when 
trolling caught in the back of a fifty-foot Cali- 
fornia gray whale, —illustrating the variety that 
comes into the life of the rod fisherman in many 
seas. 
