THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



Club recognizes this and offers many prizes for exceptional fish 

 taken on Kght tackle. The long-fin tuna is one of the most 

 valued fishes of this region as it can neariy always be relied on, 

 and often can be taken every month in the year. 



These fishes have a very wide range in warm or moderate 

 seas the world over, migrating north and south, or in and out 

 from some mysterious home, after the manner of birds, leaving 

 the angler this puzzle to solve : that if cold weather is supposed 

 to drive away certain fishes from certain localities why are they 

 frequently brought up from regions that are many times colder ? 

 The answer may be that game fishes foUow the vast sardine, 

 anchovy and herring schools. But why do these small fishes go 

 •down into icy depths, as they are known to in California, where 

 they are often found in the stomachs of the red rock-fish or 

 groupers which live in water six hundred or one thousand feet 

 deep ? 



Long-fin tunas have been taken in the San Clemente channel, 

 CaUfornia, that weighed one hundred pounds. The fish does not 

 approach the surf of the mainland, hence must be followed in 

 deep blue water in mid-channel, and is taken in such number 

 at Santa Catalina because the island is an isolated peak, rising 

 out of water from a half to one mile in depth ; hence there is deep 

 water at the very shores. The Tuna Club long-fin tuna or 

 albacore records is sixty-six pounds five ounces, taken by 

 Frank KeUy, Goshen, Ind. The records by years are as follows : 



Labgest Albacore (Thunniis alakmga). 



Chas. W. MLUer, Denver, Colo., season 1901 . 

 Ernest FaUon, Los Angeles, Cal., season 1902 

 John Van Liew, Los Angeles, Cal., season 1903 

 Stewart Ligram, Los Angeles, Cal., season 1904 

 I. C. PUlster, Denver, Colo., season 1905 

 iQustave J. Frickman, N. Y. Gty, season 1906 

 ^A. B. Cass, Los Angeles, Cal., season 1907 . 

 ^C. R. Sturdevant, Pasadena, Cal., season 1908 



^ Taken under tackle specifications of Light Tackle Class (p. 287). 

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