THE GAME FISHES OP THE WOELD 



beneath large schools of anchovies or sardines. I have seen 

 the same at Monterey. If the angler will cast an empty hook 

 into the throng, impale a live fish, then pay out line, in a moment 

 he -win have a strike. Apparently, the bass is unable to resist 

 the temptation of a live bait or a wounded fish. The Wilson 

 spoon is at times an effective lure for this fish, day and night, 

 when other baits fail. I have trolled for hours off the coast 

 and tried everything but live bait when hundreds of the biggest 

 bass were lying in the kelp in plain sight, yet never deigned to 

 notice me. 



In Florida almost invariably I towed a four-foot, boat-shaped 

 car of wire mesh and wood with a door in the top. This my 

 boatman filled with live bait, if we were going to fish for cavaUy, 

 and it was always irresistible. If the boatmen of Santa CataJina 

 would adopt this plan, or build small weUs in their boats, after 

 the fashion of Florida smacks, they would rarely draw a blank 

 with the big weakfish of the Pacific coast. 



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