Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-07-02
from the Santa Barbara Press.

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from the Santa Barbara Press.I
Ga day about three years age
Mr.. w. w. Stow said to the Hon
II. q. Redding, State Fish Com.
Aissicner: "If you have any cat
fish to spare sometime I'd like a
sifsw to send down to Sherman al
+ BantR Barbara. The boy has O
pond down there that I think
L they' 1 grow in" Mr.. Redding re-
inem bered the remark, and in a
1 uoupls Of weeks he informed Mr..
Efstow that there were about thou.
esfffs catfieh on hand that might be
%sent to stock southern waters, pro-
yidsd they were not regarded as
gSetriet,y private property. "Oh,
MOI said Mr.. Stow, "Snerman is
one II the boys, and he'll let the
xsst in. II these things grow as you
say they do there will be fish
enough for Santa Barbara county
I In couple of years. The fish
were sent down in tanks. They
\ rot here Of q Sunday evening. Be-
ing apprised of their coming, Mr..
Chairman drove in with big
E waeon in time for Sabbath School
10 tbs afternoon, and as the steam.
er WAS late, he happily had time to
Rts6uti evening service. Finally,
late 4 night, he got the tanks on
as wagon, drove out to the ranch,
and about two O'Clock in the morn.
lug anptied the various cans into
/ thc pond. This pond covers about
aix acres. 1t is a -niar.hy ,,iace
covsTsd with tules and kept full Of
Z water by the waste from Mr.
Stow water works. Mr.. Stow ha.
I q boat OIL the pond which be scull;
About with cOnsummate skill. One
day, about year ago, he remem.
bered that he had put some trout
III the pond (he had almost forgot.
Ten about The cattish), so having
5n9thiug TO do, he got out big
kreen -bellied fly nicely wound on a
4iie gave splendid cast full 90
Zee; i. when-phew! he got two
xtrilse<! Mr.. Slows reel spun like
bs2s saw, and his slender rod
Hooked like ~" He finally
B Ixusisd his game, aud Instead of q
trout, found two catfish-one inn
I pAled on the hook and the Other
+ with his jaws firmly fastened Oh
others tail. Then Mr.. Stow
1smembered that there were catfish
M the pond. He smiled with q
fepefous smile, went and got two
plg hooks, q box OF worms, and
6ald, I'VE will test this bonanza
AZ. Stow baited his hooks
ust threw them out, and il
1Htifl but second before
y not bite that nearly upset the
LAT. He hauled up-two catfish
N threw out again. By this time
~ catfish were on their mettle
HEY went for business. They hard
n let the hooks touch the wateI
fsore Mr.. Stow had to haul then
Finally they got SO thick ant
frantic as almost to climb into
boat after Mr.. Slows worm
M Seeing this the gentleman
4re y outhn empty hook. Fourteen
tnsn went for it, of which he
1ptted six-four dropping off. The
me began to get lively. He
rev worm overheard and there
Hes = disturbance in the water that
1eariy upset his boat. He got
i&iltened. He meant to de-
Innate the pond, and to do
seq out dozen lines.
M eot three catfish on each,
- Ire bucket he had provided
~ fisled to OVERLOOKING. He
erfed for home excited and alarm.
leaving his lines with emntv
pnks trailing. He landed, found
70 catfish dangling at each line.
nd every other fish had another
Httish dangling at it's tail. He
ks wise found . couple of Fl ,h
ApEIpg to the boats painter. five
ttafk tp . tiller rope that had po,
'yex board, and two or three hnno
o . little spot where a worm had
ea q uene0 on the gunwale. MFR.
tnw, now thoroughly alarmed,
~ samething must be done
bet hatsomething is nobody has
+ determinet.
That matters are serious in tina,
nm pond we know. The fish are
feWsiDg ut an alarming rat e.
~ arst one thousand were put IN
NE years ago. This thousant
~ ppe year ago increased to oyel
Ip90. The first thing catfish d.
en they are burn Il to eat; the
~ thing they do IL TO reproduce
s}z7eelyes. The present veal
iisll have probably increas ed
several millions. Mr.. Car.
COCK. gentleman OF cal.
hiding habits and OF matbe.
esicAl turn VI mind, after care.
eVlnp0tatiOn estimates that the
fjnter III fish In the pond now are
10. BIZ. s330, 240, 600; but that 1.-THE
srs not thinned out by Mr..
~ aud Afew tons Of giant pow
IN D year nr 50 they will num-
$50, 100; 4S0, $40. $50. coo, 600, 600.
- figures are alarming, and
b they may be. The great anx-
~ Mr. STOW Is that the fish
4 Aqally dteplace all the water,
That instead OF fish.pond
Will be oMly compost hes D
huge pile OF fish that he viii
\ 10 cart or III wagons for the