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the rod and reel craft, and to give the best advan- 
tages we can for fishing.” 
The coast of Louisiana abounds in localities 
where the tarpon and other fishes can be taken ; 
New Orleans having many ardent anglers who 
are devoted to the rod and reel. 
Los Angeles is the central point for anglers 
going to the fishing resorts of Southern California. 
The tuna grounds are at Santa Catalina Island, 
twenty-five miles offshore, reached from San 
Pedro, twenty miles by rail from Los Angeles, 
by the Southern Pacific, Salt Lake railroads, and 
an electric road, there being from one to three 
steamers daily in summer and one in winter. 
Avalon, the port of Santa Catalina, is three and 
one-half hours from Los Angeles and has a 
summer population of five or six thousand and 
about fifteen hundred in winter. Hotels, cot- 
tages, boarding-houses, and numerous professional 
boatmen make this the best-equipped angling 
resort in the country, comfort being considered, 
there being no hot weather, mosquitoes, or pests 
of any kind, winter or summer, and that essential 
for tuna-fishing, — smooth water. 
San Clemente Island, twenty-two miles distant 
to the southwest, can be reached by chartered 
