FISH AND FISHING. 



SOME CATCHES AT AVALON. 



Fishing all along the. coast of Southern 

 California and at Avalon, Catalina Island, 

 is at its best in July. Mackerel, silver sea 

 trout, surf fish and halibut ran well last 

 season at Santa Monica, Redondo, Playa, 

 Del Rey and all the beach resorts South of 

 Los Angeles. By trolling off shore large 

 numbers of barracuds and yellowtails were 

 taken. At Avalon many large black sea 

 bass, or jewfish, were brought to gaff. 



July 2nd Mr. Claude W. Heineman, of 

 New York, took a black sea bass weighing 

 350 pounds after a hard fight, lasting over 

 3 hours. July 3rd Mr. Ben L. Brundage, 

 of Bakersfield, Cal., broke the season's 

 record by bringing in a black sea bass 

 which weighed 357 pounds. Mr. Brundage 

 brought his huge fish to gaff in 34 minutes. 



Yellowtail and white sea bass also ran 

 well. Many of the "white sea bass weigh 

 30 to 60 pounds and afford excellent sport. 

 Albicore and rock bass were brought in by 

 the hundreds every day. July 3rd Mr. and 

 Mrs. W. S. Brown, of England, who were 

 stopping at Avalon, brought in no rock 

 bass, 3 albicore and 2 yellowtails, the en- 

 tire catch weighing 620 pounds. Another 

 man, name unknown, brought in a catch 

 weighing 700 pounds. 



Some regulation should be adopted at 

 Avalon to stop this slaughter of fish by 

 people who never know when they have 

 enough. 



Mr. H. E. Smith, of New York, recently 

 took a black sea bass weighing 210 pounds, 

 wnich he brought to gaff in 9 minutes. It 

 is estimated that there were 8,000 people at 

 Avalon July 4th, and probably 5,000 to 

 6,000 there during the remainder of the sea- 

 son, so the fish suffered. 



The tuna gave Catalina the go-by again 

 last season. Only small ones were taken 

 early in the season, on hand lines. May is 

 generally the best month for the tuna. 



The jewfish record was broken July 9th 

 by Mr. H. E. Smith, of New York. His 

 fish was taken near Avalon and weighed 

 402 pounds. It measured 6 feet 10 inches 

 from tip to tip, and 5 feet 9 inches around 

 the body. 

 _ July 8th a large school of tuna were 

 sighted about 3 miles from Avalon. Sev- 

 eral launches with enthusiastic fishermen 

 aboard started after them. Two large fish 

 were hooked, but both broke away, taking 

 the hook and wire leader with them. 



B. C. Hineman, Los Angeles, Cal. 



that their friends were liberally treated. — Rhine- 

 lander, Wis., New North. 



The following letter explains itself : 

 In answer to your inquiry regarding the 

 truthfulness of the pike catch, Mr. Christof- 

 ferson, my son Henry and I caught 45 pike, 

 and it is safe to say they weighed 1 to 3 

 pounds apiece. We also had a string of 

 good sized black bass, not to say anything 

 about the large size of pickerel we had. 

 We did not fish early or late. 



J. Segerstrom, Rhinelander, Wis. 

 You say you had 45 pike, weighing 1 to 3 

 pounds each. It is fair to assume, 

 therefore, that they would average 2 pounds 

 each, making 90 pounds in all. Then you 

 say you had a string of black bass, but 

 do not say how many nor how much they 

 weighed. Probably 20 pounds. You mention 

 some large pickerel. Suppose we consider 

 this conservatively and say 20 pounds of 

 pickerel. This would make your total catch 

 weigh 130 pounds, or more than 40 

 pounds to each man, at least twice the 

 quantity of fish any decent party of 3 

 men should catch in a day. So your names 

 go in the fish hog book in this wise : J. 

 Segerstrom, No. 1,139; G. Christofferson, 

 No. 1,140; Henry Segerstrom, No. 1,141. — 

 Editor. 



THREE WISCONSIN SWINE. 

 Among the local Nimrods who made big catches 

 Sunday were Jake Segerstrom and G. Christoffer- 

 son. The gentlemen took over 80 pounds of pike 

 from one of the county lakes. It is safe to add 



WARDENS FAIL TO KEEP PROMISES. 



Have been reading Recreation several 

 years, and enjoy it much. I like the way 

 you roast the fish and game hogs, but would 

 it not be a good plan to roast some of the 

 game and fish wardens and other State 

 officers ? 



I am, a lover of outdoor sports, es- 

 pecially fishing. We have the Wishna Botna 

 river about Y? mile from town. It. is a 

 beautiful, deep river, and should be a ?ood 

 fishing place, but between here and the 

 mouth of this river are 3 dams and no 

 fishways. Below these dams the fishing is 

 good, many catfish weighing 3 to 17 pounds 

 being caught there. The local sportsmen 

 have been after the game warden and oth- 

 ers and have the promise that fishways will 

 be put in at once at each of the dams. This 

 promise was given early last spring, but as 

 yet nothing has been done, and probably 

 all it ever will amount to is a promise. We 

 can go fishing here, but the usual luck is 

 about what I had Saturday, 8 catfish aver- 

 aging 5 inches in length, which, of course, 

 I threw back. 



If you care to publish this letter it may 

 have some effect, by getting opinions from 

 others, and possibly next year we can go out 

 with at least the hope of making a fair 

 catch. 



N. G. Partridge, Atlantic, Iowa. 



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