The photograph we recently published of the 13ilb. salmon bass taken by Sir Edward Pearce at, Weihaiwei, where it was a record, has brought us a letter from Mr. J.A. Nixon, of the Chinese Post Office in Peking, with an account of the still bigger fish and another not much smaller taken by him at Peitaiho.
These two fish, both sea bass, were caught by Mr. Nixon at Peitaiho in two successive casts. "The larger weighed exactly 17 pounds and the' other 11," he writes. "They were! caught at 7 p.m. September 7. Particulars of the larger fish are:
Weight, 17 Ibs, Length, 38 inches Girth, 193 inches Bait,' Hedden "Basser wooden!
minnow, white, red head.
"A light steel rod J. J. Hardy Silex reel and Hedden silk line were used. The fish were caught off Lighthouse Point from a sampan, the larger taking about 15 minutes to Iand."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.