Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-31
THE P|ScATORIAL SEASON,
Days That We Devote Unto
Izaak Walton.
Quiet Hours by Bubbling Streams
and Green Fields.
Salmon Fishing in Alaskan Waters-The
Greyling of the stickeen-Camping
Out at the klamath Lakes-Yel-
low Tails at Catalina.

The fish of the genus Salmo are natu-
rally cold water fish, spawning only in
streams that are fed by melting snow
1t therefore follows that the further
north you go the larger, stronger and
gamer you find the trout and all the
other relatives of the greatest of all
game fish, the salmon. One strange
characteristic of the salmon is that Ger.
tain species of this class of fish have ia.
vorite streams. For instance the Chi
nook salmon is found only in the Co.
lumbia, Quilhyute and Stickeen rivers,
while the socket-eyed salmon abounds
mostly in the Fraser. The silverside
which the Indians call "Mukilteo, .
is to be found in the Sacramento, the
Rogue, the Umpqua, the Siuslaw and
the Chehal is, as well as in all the
larger ri vers that empty into the "Med-
Iterranean of the Pacific, !" while to the
north OF Sitka may be caught large
numbers of an enormous salmon called,
in Esquimau language, the "Garlushka," !"
which is never found in any of the riv-
ers above named.
RUDYARD KIPLING's STORIES
OF how he killed three half-domesticat-
ed Chinook salmon at the Clakamas
hatchery in 1889 need no repetition
here. He could have gone to the Will
lamette Falls and had quite as much
sport, coupled with good deal more
danger. My running mate at the falls
was generally lawyer named Bingham,
now dead about year. On one occa-
sion he hooked 25-pound salmon, and
had the biggest battle ever seen, taking
an hour and twelve minutes to land
him. When he got him out on the
bank, poor Bingham lay down alongside
OF the fish and said, in tone of re-
vengeful import, Eyes, d-n you, if
you'd been at the other end of this pole,
you would have been dead more than
hall an hour ago." l have never been
to the falls since poor Bingham's death,
and would not know how to enjoy my
self if did 20 there. Gerald Robert
son, another companion of my outings in
that region, is likewise dead, and
should feel quite lonesome if I went
there by myself. In the matter of trout
streams there is no choice after you pass
r Mount Shasta on
THE NoRTH-BoUND TRAINS,
Save that the fishing improves and
the camping gets worse as you 60 north.
For good trouting l recommend the
Trask and Dougherty, which flow into
the ocean at Tillamook bay, and the Co.
quitlan, Satsop and Wynoochie, which
empty into Gray's harbor. But it is
chiefly in Alaskan waters that the big
fish are caught in greatest numbers.
The man who leaves the ocean stream
at Fort Wrangel and takes the river
boat up the Stickeen to Glenora Land
ing, has treat that Dame Juliana Ber-
ners would have envied. Here you find
trout that will 60 as high as six pounds,
and grayling that often pull down the
scale at two pounds. Add to these a
profusion of game, such as caribou, deer
and bear, with no end of ptarmigan, or
snow grouse, as they call them there.
Take the Stickeen country in July and
August, and cannot imagine anything
nearer hunters paradise, but for the
rest of the year, please excuse me. 1t
is just as l tell you. If you want great
fishing and big game, 20 as far north as
you like. But if you want to enjoy life
in camp, stay right where you are.
There is nothing to beat Southern Cali.
fornia in this respect.
WILLIAMSON AND sPRAGUE RIVERS
each debouch into Klamath lake near
where the boundary lines of Nevada and
Oregon separate those states from Cali
fornia. 1t is a lonely and desolate re-
gion, whose chief attributes are sage
brush, sand and silence. There you
fight every time you hook fish, for the
trout are little short of monsters. The
Williamson river is considered the bet.
ter stream of the two, but the Sprague
is very fine indeed. have not fished in
that region since 1870, when got bran
new lancewood rod broken into flinders
by six-pounder. Judge Alexander
who was fishing about forty yards from
me, caught the fish an hour later and
recovered my leader, but that did moi
mend my broken rod. That was great
sporting year for me, for between July
and November killed twenty-five deel
and six cougars, the last one of which
after he was mortally wounded, de-
stroyed the best dog l ever owned.
shall never forget how the poor, disem.
boweled brute looked up in my face
imploring me to end his misery; mol
how l felt myself when / held my rife
close to his head and sent the friendly
bullet crashing through his brain.
Is the principal feeder OF the William
cite, and has more fall, without ar
actual cascade, than any river evel
fshed. 1t is by long odds the best
stream within reach of ordinary travel
by rail, on the entire coast. You leave
Eugene at noon, stay that night at old
man Pepiot's, and the next day at
you are at the Belknap springs. For
thirty miles down stream from that
point the fishing is the best, and at The
Same time the most perilous, that ]
have ever seen. Wading the stream is
literally impossible, and if the angler
should miss his footing and fall off the
tootlogs on which it is necessary to cross
the river, it is 5 to that he never will
get out alive. Owing to the immense
amount of snow on the head of the Nc.
Kenzie, there is never any good fishing
until the last of August, when the vol
ume OF water becomes perceptiblv re-
duced by the long protracted thaw
The same applies to the North Umpoua
to reach which you leave the train a
Oakland and make your wagon voyage
forty miles eastward. The fishing Il
glorious. and there is no end of venison
grouse and huckleberries. The coast
streams, such as the Dougheryt, Trash