WHITE SEA BASSAND WEAKFISH 



known as tlie Wliite Sea Bass, veritable monsters compared to 

 the little weakfish of the Atlantic. There are two species : 

 C. maedonaldi of the Giilf of California, which attains a length 

 of four or more feet and a weight of two hundred pounds, and 

 C. ndbilis of Santa Cataliaa, which ranges up to one hundred, 

 though eighty pounds is the largest I have seen, and a fifty-three 

 or four pounder the largest I have landed with a rod. The record 

 of the Tuna Club was taken some years ago by Mr. C. H. Harding 

 of Philadelphia, who caught a sixty-pound fish after a gallant 

 and graphic contest for supremacy ; and other notable catches 

 by Tuna Club members are as follows : 



Largest White Sea Bass (Cynoscion ndbilis). 



Edward M. Boggs, Oakland, Cal., season 1899 



Wm. P. Adams, Chicago, HI., season 1903 



C. H. Harding, Philadelphia, Pa., season 1904 



E. C. Wilson, Denver, Colo., season 1905 



^A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1906 



1 Arthur J. Eddy, Chicago, PI., season 1906 



^Mrs. E. H. Brewster, Avalon, season 1907 



^S. A. Barron, San Dimas, Cal., season 1908 



'^A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1908 



*A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1909 



ij. W. Prey, Los Angeles, Cal., winter season 1909-10 



1 Benjamin Thaw, Pittsburg, Pa., season 1910 



^A. E. Eaton, Avalon, winter season 1910-11 



^Guy Beddinger, Chicago, PI., season 1911 



John B. Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, wiater season 1911-12 



These bass are Uable, as the yellowtaU and Caranx of Florida, 

 to a sudden madness or insatiate and overwhelming frenzy or 

 blood lust. At such times large schools wiU start at full speed, 

 sweep up the coast like a band of ravenous wolves, enter the bays, 

 as Avalon, driving small fry and even squids ten feet long before 

 them, and creating a panic in fishdom. At such a time they will 



^ Taken under tackle specifications of light Tackle Class. 

 * Taken under tackle specifications of Three-Six Class. 



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