Show i 1 1 1 P ii it 1 74 14 aln e 1 2 ace 4 at 1 6 I 1 irv A I 1 t FISH r r t bg at uria OFF CAPE A ANN IT ing me I 1 1 4 1 ell 4 ja mackerel acker elor of down dowa but h adt 1106 1 14 V aas tb be yan vanis CU As tells fella marve ona eab abbot 14 1 I 1 lit r bigger M na I 1 I 1 ber new york tatter letter nr r ORD lias has come e S from rom tho the Cali california taMla I 1 ly 41 coast that fishermen va at santa catalina or island have 6 been havi having dg great 11 11 1 sport mort recently lit in catching upon light tackle the great 0 fish known to the athe I 1 pacific angl anglers erx as I 1 the leaping tuna is import I 1 ipri is declared to be more moreed ex beven even than that furnished by the ai 0 or any of the other big sea am fish I 1 bitters it I 1 aers have hate been attacking the bw years about twenty tunas I 1 eteen captured on hand lines dur I 1 I 1 i lae tte past season at avalon but the T i remarkable capture was the one 1 1 st at santa catalena by col C P 0 chouse of pasadena who hooked I 1 11 pound tuna ou on a light rod and aad secured it after a struggle lors re than three hours during the etith with the great ash col moore jet boat was towed about three I 1 the leaping tuna of the pacific ascribed scribed bed d as ranging in weight from 1800 pounds and from f six to nine jt a length and as having a habit G aping from the sea a ten or fifteen r into the air the pound tuna ach chcon col caught was the c y ote one taken on a rod those which im ought aught on hand lines ranged in eja A from 90 to pounds the a tee been about the santa cat 1 ri P I 1 i i p cv am ottoe dirl I 1 e awn I 1 I 1 ace t TM gloucester 0 ter 1 nii 1 fi other r h it ans and W 0 it er of maw athi ottto coast ekar dear of 0 the st biyer 1 d they are aji to be i european kulpe found d anthe in tao waters all the f way U from the alie mediterranean to the Lof forden islands tn in 1411 latitude tude 69 degrees north norm anen mentho arho fishery rasher go BO atter after the tuna OU on ow oar coasts 0 will have the I 1 advantage of seek inga ing a bigger fish than the tuna hunter of any other part of the world tor for it is 18 not une uncommon to find specimens in the cape anti ann waters which from IM to 1500 pounds in weight rings the fish is a very familiar one to down east fishermen shermen li but in this part of the world rid it is called by a different name e the cape ann fishermen call it the horse mackerel it is known as the tunny to the english speaking people or of dueppe and as the ton toll or 01 tuna to the people who border the mediterranean except its deadly enemy the killer whale it to is probably the most active fth fish that Is to be found in the am sea and new yorkers should cherish no hope of seeing a specimen of it in the aquarium for it is altogether too much on the move to be kept for even a little while in captivity but the idea of treating it as a 11 game fish bab and seeking its capture with rod and reel seems never to have occurred to any one until the pacific fishermen went after it in that way on the atlantic coast it has been hunted and captured for or many years with the harpoon just as the sward swordfish is captured in recent years it has been taken in nets of rope the horse mackerel is known scientifically as and it is a member of the mackerel family it is a very handsome member of that family too being arrayed like nearly all its relations in handsome shadings of metallic blues and grays with intermixtures Inter mixtures una fishing grounds all winter it is i nii laid and they cromise lse such sport this pring that a number of eastern sportsmen men are said to be going to the cau call II I 1 I 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 ir I 1 I 1 1 t 1 7 XE I 1 I 1 i W I 1 t i I 1 1 1 it 1 Z i av I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 ia 1 ta 4 i Y Is I 1 1 1 I 1 Z 1 e 1 V I 1 sa i m i gg E I 1 C 2 P U k Y z K coupe coast A abua T arai K ibe zaw 1 h 7 I 1 ke amas M ii i A t w ali I 1 i I 1 MM tod lud faiq ii 6 em 1 1 br bouble le 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I 1 those years the fishermen eu looked upon the horse mackerel i as 88 practically unfit foa food and good only tor for oil cil When the horse mackerel were ft fat t the ft fishermen hermen would attack them with the A harpoon and kill them for the oil s I 1 which they yielded the oil came I 1 the head and belly and IL a VII VI awl I sized fth fish would yield twenty I 1 gallons gali df W it in those chose as the I 1 we recast away or for I 1 I 1 chicken food f |