Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
FOREST ARD STEFAN.


soup.
The pike or bass should never be intro
duced into waters where trout have pre-
viously been planted.
Lake Tahoe, according to The local press,
already affords good fishing. We hear OF
many Sacramentans intending to visit the
lake this season.
A French author says: "The lamprey
has all the bad qualities of the eel without
any of the good" No one in California
viii dispute that assertion.
Two gentlemen fishing in the Ralston
creek, tributary of the San Gregorio, a
few days since, took 140 fair-sized trout,
running ali the way from to 10 inches in
length.
Herr Won Bebr, the most distinguished
Of the German fish culturists, mentions the
catching of California salmon in the river
Isa. 1t is believed that in time they will
work their way to the Black Sea.
When opened, cleaned and the interior
well rubbed with an even quantity of pull
verified sugar and salt, the transportation
OF fab can be effected in warm weather,
and the flesh preserved fresh for two or
three days.
The tnles along the Sacramento river are
said TO be already alive with young maliard
and teal. From this time out we expect to
hear, as the Pacific Life says, Of the slaugh-
ter of the iDnocsnts long before they are
fit for tie table Il would not be becom-
ing in the California vandal ganne-thief to
| allow them to live for the pleasure or ben.
eft of the general public.
Newton Hornbuckle caught trout few
days since near Buena Vista, Oregon, which
was covered with red spots instead of black
ones. Several other instances are on rec
ord of red speckled trout being caught in
this section. An angler remarks that
either the trout, like the leopard, can
Ischapge It's spots, or else some Eastern
brook trout have been but in the WILL
annette.
The Indians Of the north, according to
an exchange, are said to freeze the carp,
and bring them to life again by thawing
them gradually, and thas this method of
transportation produces no i'll effects on
them we are assured by an able author.
Also that on their being returned to the
water they become az lively as ever. Ger
tainly the carp has tenacity of life which
is only surpassed by the eel and catfish,
and this renders the above remarks the
more easily accepted.
The sturgeon, which is exceedingly plen.
tiful, is among the most useful of fish.
Nothing is wasted in its consumption.
Every portion of the sturgeon is turned to
profitable use. The roe, which ia developed
in astonishing quantity and closely resem-
| bles turnip seed in size and color, is made
into the famous caviare, so highly relished
| by European gourmets. The air bladder,
which is very large, is carefully dried for
expectation, being used in the manufacture
of gelatine aud the finer qualities of glue.
The head, tail and skin, entrails and back
bone are tried out over a slow fire, and
yield considerable quantity of oil, which
is in great demand by leather dressers.
The refuse, after the oil has been extracted,
makes valuable fertilizer for the farm.
Mr.. Graham, the celebrated trap-shooter
of London, has issued challenge to the
pi geon. shooters of the world, to shoot at
100 birds for 81, 900 a side. He invites b.
gardus, Dr. Carver and Mr.. Mitchell to re-
! spond. and seems anxious for an American
competitor. Mr.. Graham also offers to
make second match for 81, 900 side IN.
der the following conditions Mr.. Graham
to stand at twenty-six yards rise and use
one hand only, the other competitor to
stand at thirsy-two yards and use both
hands. The challenger is member of the
| Union Gun Club of Hendon. His handicap
is thirty yards, and on March 80, 1882, he
beat Mr.. johnson In a one-hand match,
killing twenty. three out of twenty-five at
! twenty-five yards. Mr.. Graham also won
a challenge cup at Hendon in October, kill
ing nine straight at thirty yards, and in
| November became the holder of the War
ner Challenge Prize by killing eight at
thirty-one yards from field OF thirteen.
Mr.. Graham is also recorded as the winner
Of several small affairs in the English pro.
vinces. This year, on the 14th of March,
he shot match at the Abbey Hey Grounds,
near Manchester, for ESQ, when he was
beaten by T. Rauthmell. They shot at 100
birds, at twenty-five yards, with half an
ounce of shot The winner scored fifty
three out of 100, to Graham's forsy-three
out of ninety-one. The birds furnished
were described as one of the fastest lots
ever trapped at Manchester. No doubt
Bogardus and Carver will both accept the
glove thrown down by the British cham
I ptOU, anu III OlbACL nv WiAA AZ NOuhH 11LIN1 O.
competitor worthy his attention.
Mr.. Van Dyke, the popular California
writer on game and sports, thus beautifully
describes the California mountain quail,
and which cannot fail to please the many ad-
mirers of this fine bird There is some-
thing inexpressively clever and attractive
about the mountain quail. His ways are
go soft and 80 artless; he seems SO friendly
and confding at the very first acquaintance,
as if you vera specially born for his bosom
| friend his soft chatter, no matter how
empty, falls so unsteady upon your ear !;
you almost see his bosom heave with emo
ton, and diiate with intensity OF friend
ship for you. Ard then, too, he has
such urgent business elsewhere the mo.
ment you want special favor from him.
| have never shot many of these charm.
| ing birds. | have never desired to. For
their hoodlum cousin Of the lower valley
feel no pity when his sauce.box is sud-
denly closed in mid. air. But the death
of the mountain quail causes in me no
| feeling but sorrow. Often and often
do | meet them in the lonely mount
ain glen, by the clear, cold spring or
sparkling brooks of the higher attitudes,
along the lonely pine-clsd hillsides, or in
the chaparral. clad gulches below. But 1
sit down and watch them till the last one
steals twittering and rustling away, un.
shot at. Though their heads make the
fairest Of marks for the rifle, and 1 have
often for fun covered it with the sights
at ten or twelve PAGES only, 1 have never
yet pulled rife trigger at one. But for
the shotgun, when one knows how to hunt
them and can get them on the right kind
of ground. they are indeed noble game. :"
| Rock eel fishing receives considerable
attention of late, the Sportsman says
They are principally found in the vicinity
of Lime Point, Angel Island and about
Saucelito. Horseshoe Cove is frequently
the scene of activity consequent upon
the presence of number Of anglers
who have been induced TO turn
their attention TO this sport because of
their failure to find choices trout streams.
An excellent story is told at the expense of
prominent merchant in this city, who
for the past two months has been a regular
visitor to the Saucelito shore, where he
claims TO have encountered a monster rock
eel. ALI endeayors to land the fish have
been Intellectual, and in the attempts
come twenty large-sized hooks have been
| lost, not TO mention broken rods, lost sink
ers and parted lines. He had the good
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