Never heard of 'em described this way —
San Pedro, which has been leading all the beach resorts in popularity and results for the past three weeks, was compelled to give way to Playa del Rey, which led all of the coast towns with the Waltonians.
Jacksmelt, great, big, shiny fellows, steel blue and silver-marked, with flesh as hard as nails and of the odor of freshly-packed violets, ran in schools of thousands all the week long and continue to swarm the waters about the wharves at the playground of the kings.
There has been jacksmelt caught in years gone by at every point on the south and west coast, but never before has this palatable and gamy little fish run in such numbers and size as present.
Think of a jacksmelt weighing eighteen to twenty ounces, and if it were not almost unbelievable, thirty ounces, and you have the size of the majority of fish caught this past week and the kind which you can catch tomorrow and the day after and the next day, providing wind and weather and water hold good.
San Pedro, which has been leading all the beach resorts in popularity and results for the past three weeks, was compelled to give way to Playa del Rey, which led all of the coast towns with the Waltonians.
Jacksmelt, great, big, shiny fellows, steel blue and silver-marked, with flesh as hard as nails and of the odor of freshly-packed violets, ran in schools of thousands all the week long and continue to swarm the waters about the wharves at the playground of the kings.
There has been jacksmelt caught in years gone by at every point on the south and west coast, but never before has this palatable and gamy little fish run in such numbers and size as present.
Think of a jacksmelt weighing eighteen to twenty ounces, and if it were not almost unbelievable, thirty ounces, and you have the size of the majority of fish caught this past week and the kind which you can catch tomorrow and the day after and the next day, providing wind and weather and water hold good.
—Los Angeles Herald, November 7, 1908
