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  • California Eastern Sierra Back Country Fishing Guide

    California Eastern Sierra Back Country Fishing Guide

    The purpose of the Eastern Sierra Backcountry Fishing Guide is to answer the recurring question: Where can I go fishing in the backcountry? This guide is a product of the California Department of Fish and Game, Bishop Field Office. Our aim is to provide Eastern Sierra backcountry anglers with a quick, informative, and accurate account…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XXI

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XXI

    It Is not intended In this chapter to defend anglers against those who assert our favorite pastime is cruel, though most non-anglers do; It is their privilege to be innocent of the true state of things in angling methods. Walton’s well known remark on hooking a frog, “as if you loved him,” is more to…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XX

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XX

    The kingfish is perhaps the gamest of bottom feeders that inhabit salt water. All anglers have the best opinion of him, and with one accord, after he is landed, they exclaim: “What a dandy!” Its gamey qualities, its beauty of color and form, as well as its excellent flavor, caused the loyal citizens of New…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIX

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIX

    There are about a dozen species of this family, which inhabit the cold and temperate northern seas, but they are most plentiful along the coast of New England and the Middle States. The Eastern smelt grows occasionally to the length of a foot, but average about seven inches, and they appear to associate together in…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVIII

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVIII

    The name Lafayette was given it by the New York fishermen in consequence of its reappearance in large numbers in that region having been coincident with the arrival of Lafayette in this country in 1824. It had been known before that time, but only in scattering numbers.


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVII

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVII

    This is another plentiful and common sea fish known by many names. In New England It is generally called “scup,” while about New York it is paugy or porgy – both being abbreviated from the Narragansett Indian name, scuppaug. On the Virginia coast it is called the “fair maid.” The porgy is found along our…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVI

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XVI

    The tautog is one of the species of parrot fishes, stockily built, hard scales and harder mouth; it has a long row of spines running nearly the whole length of its back. The color is of a greenish-black, sometimes bluish-black, with metallic reflections and having irregular bands of a deeper hue. He is as slippery…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XV

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XV

    This fish has an enormous appetite and is well known In having the reputation of being the most determined and persistent biter of any fish that swims the sea. Though sluggish in habits, its large and powerful fins are able to propel it through the water with great swiftness. During the breeding season the male…


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIV

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIV

    They move in schools periodically to and from the shore, according to the seasonable change in temperature. The cod-fish, as well as the tom cod, is a winter fish when so many species that supply food are absent either In the deeper water or have moved southward In warmer waters.


  • Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIII

    Bait Angling for Common Fishes – Chapter XIII

    Next In importance to the plaice is the flounder, sometimes called the winter flounder and also the flatfish; It is much more abundant and does not grow to so large a size as the plaice. The flounder Is a cold-weather fish, biting from February to the beginning of May, and again from October to December.