Show TUNA A remarkable FISH swaggering musketeer of the sea la Is the langst of the game or bony fishes charles frederick holder the california naturalist thus describes that remarkable fish the tuna the tuna Is a pelagio fish a tree free lance an all ocean rover a ort of ot staggering musketeer of the sea the largest ot of what inay may be termed the game or bony fishes attaining a maximum weight of nearly 2 pounds and an mate length of fourteen feet or more such a fish Is very exceptional though specimens weighing 1600 1500 pounds haye have been taken on the new anglas d coast I 1 once entered a school in a big launch the set ool divided to pott and starboard as we passed through it and I 1 ad a view of one or wo go fishes that appeared to be more lt tf n half as long as the boat beat these fishes spend the winter inter in warm latitudes and migrate north as tar far as the mouth of the st lawrence they are found in the and north to the Lof foden island yet so tar far the efforts of anglers ex capt at santa catalina Cata llna have failed to take them with the rod even here ti U ere Is a stretch of but eight miles or so where here they can be satis satisfactory factor lly ily played and taken with rod and leel teel this mcglon lies on the north tide side of santa catalina Cata llna from avalon to long point and to the east as many facing the north and generally smooth moie like a scottish loch than a ground 20 miles out to bea u |