Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-31
and Nestucca, can be flshed at least six
weeks earlier, and are far ahead of any
thing outside the Mckenzie or North
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weeks earlier, and are far ahead OF any
thing outside the Mckenzie or Nortl
Umpqua.
THE HOG sPoRTsMAN,
However, delights in just such streami
as these, because he can catch grea
weight OF fsh. Those coastwise streams
from Crescent City up, are all wretchec
camping places on account of the heavy
rains and dense fogs which prevail al
through the summer. If you want &
really good and comfortable camp to re-
cruit your exhausted energies, try the
California mountains. Your fishing will
not be as good as in the further northern
state, but everything else will be better
There is no pleasure in camp where
you have to dry your blankets about
every other day. The Sierra Madre is
far in advance of all other locations for
pleasant camping grounds, and the all
is full of ozone. People who become af
fiicted with the asthma, so prev
alent all along the north coast
from Humboldt bay to Sitka, come down
here and feel as though they had been
born anew. The man who wants to
catch trout by the ton or shoot quail by
the bushel does not realize his expecta.
tions 80 we'll here as further north,
but for actual enjoyment of life in the
woods, the mountain camping grounds
Of Southern California are far in ad-
vance of anything to the north of us.
To those who are not particular about
taking their fish at the top of the
water,
THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL
offers attractions unequalled by any
other part of the coast. have trolled
in the bay of Wrangel for silverside sal
mon in September, and caught as high
as forty of an afternoon, but nothing
larger than twelve pounds. Down here
in those sunlit waters, where the bar
rier islands reduce the angry sea to a
placid swell, there is sport that
is far ahead of the sea-
fishing in Alaskan waters. You can
troll for hours anywhere between the
main land and Catalina island, and
hardly miss catching one or two "yel-
lowtaiP' or dozen barracudas. The
latter fish always looks to me like salt
water edition Of the pickerel; and the
index finger of my left hand bears a
faithful scar to remind me of bite that
1 got from one in San Diego harbor
nearly forty years ago, while fishing in
company with Captain Jacob Bogart, of
blessed memory. Eight to ten pounds
is large barracuda, but the "yellow-
TAIL" which will also take the squid or
spoon bait, frequently goes as high as
twenty. The latter is pronounced the
most toothsome of all the channel fish,
always excepting the pompano which
is taken generally in nets and seldom
bites hook. But the Jewish"
of this locality is really the
MONARCH OF THESE WATERS,
And gives the angler battle whenever
he is once securely hooked. For many
years I labored under belief that this
fish was identical with the tarpon of
Florida, but now have sevaral reasons
for contrary opinion. To begin with,
a tarpon will take fly while the slew
fish" pays no attention to one; and
secondly, the ''jewfsh" frequently goes
to 300 pounds weight while the largest
tarpon ever taken with hook, only
weighed 1913, and was taken with fly
by Mr.. r. E. Wood of New York after a
battle that lasted over two hours. /
should like to have Judge Roosevelt,
Eugene Blackford or Mr.. w. @. Harris,
of the Angler, come out here and ex-
anime our channel island fishing. If
a man wants fight whenever he
hooks fish, all he has to
do is to pack up his
gripsack and start for Catalina. What
most astonishes me in this connection,
is that 80 few San Francisco anglers have
come down this way to try the deep-sea
fishing that can be had anywhere be-
tween Point Conception and the mouth
OF the Colorado. can assure them that
they can ego further and fare worse"
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