What is a grunion fish?
The grunion is a California performer, though not a movie star. He is a slim, silvery fish and on certain special nights of the year, he performs on the moonlit beaches. No other fish is quite like him and he can be found nowhere else in the whole wide world. If you visit California, you may catch yourself a batch of grunion to fry for :;u.o:, supper. But you may do so only on a few special nights of the year. The local newss papers announce these grunion nights and also remind the people that no fishing equip¬ment of any kind is permitted to catch them. No grunion may be caught during April and May. These game laws are enforced to prevent people from catching all the grunion fishes in the world, leaving none for the future. The grunion season usually lasts from June to September, and grunion fishers are allowed to use only their bare hands for catching the slithery little fishes. The silvery, six inch fishes are cousins of the jack smelts and the silversides, the mullets and other fis
