The morning call., 1894-02-04
ANGLING.
Why Streams Should Be Protected
During the Winter.


A few days ago THE CALL stated that
salmon-spearing was feature OF sport
which was INDUCED in to a great extent
by residents of the country who reside
within close proximity of streams which
are freQuented by anadromous fishes at
this season of the year. Paper mill Creek,
SOnOma and other small rivers within easy
reach of local anglers were mentioned as
being the favorite waters of poachers who
have never been known to handle hsh.
ing-rod.
The Fish and Game Commissioners have
been granted an extra appropriation to the
sum generally allowed by the State for the
purpose of protecting game and fish; yet
il seems tnat the Commissioners have mis-
construed the objects and intentions of the
State in granting the extra appropriation.
The Commissioners, even according to
their own statement, are giving their en-
lire atten ton to the hatcheries to the neg
lect of the fishes of streams which are
badly in need Of protection at this time OF
the year.
1t is a well-known fact that if the parent
fishes are protected during the few months
of the year in which they perpetuate their
species the streams Will not require stock
ing, which. as general thing, has proven
failure so far as coast streams are con-
cerned.
The Commissioners are aware of this
fact, as il is only few years ago they
proved, by stocking the streamswhich runs
through Bear Valley. in the Century
CUBS preserve, that stocking coast
streams with hatchery Try is failure.
Probably if the Commissioners would
experiment with the Won Behr" Garman
brown trout and Loeb Leven or English
brown trout-S. fariO-tne results would
isfa IS
fact that he German brown trout Is not
an anadrOmouS fish and will live and thrive
In fTe,n-water streams even though the
latter may run comparatively dry during
the summer season.
What the sportsmen and anglers of this
city and State require of the COMMITS slOn-
erS principally is some protection to the
game and fish. The people are certainly
sane enough not TO suppose that the Com
mlSsiOnerS. with their present appTOprla-
ton, can keep paid deputies patrollIng the
principal rivers of the State.
1t will be many years before the State
will conclude that the fisheries interests
are of such importance as TO require a
large appropriation for the proper protec-
ton of game and fish. The S ate derives a
large annual revenue from its fisheries and
some consideration of this fact should be
given by legislators when making State
laws. Every county should have at least
two or three paid patromen and the
Judges of county seats should assist in the
punishment OF men who make a practice of
the laws.
The anglers Of this city would be pleased
TO hear of arrests made by deputy commits
siOners of men who are spearing salmon in
coast streams.
Certainly if spearing can be done pro-
miseuously IN such streams as the Paper
mill, SonOma, ETC., there cap be little hope
for the fishes which frequent rivers of the
Il orthern and southern counties.
Anglers are highly pleased with the verv
good work Deputy Fish Commi ssioner Al
Wilson has done in stopping illegal net
fishing at the mouth of Russian River. II
other paid deputies were as energetic as
Wilson the Comm ssiOners would be recipI-
eDis Of congratulations.
1t is hos ed by the angling fraternity OF
this city that Eastern visitors will not
judge the Pacific Coast by the fisheries
exhibit at the Midwinter Fair The
proper parties-the Fish Commissioner
intended getting up an exhibit at the fair
which would have been a credit TO the
State, but their hopes were blasted by an
individual who secured the concession.
The present fish exhibit will be more of
rendezvous for the hungry than it will be
for visitors who desire to see q display of
coast fishes.
In reference to the projected angling
American Field says of Mr.. Z. Il. Allen,
one Of the gentlemen selected as an as
sistant by Colonel Edwards, chairman of
the fly-castlng committee: Mr.. K. r. Allen
will be remembered as the genial gentle
man who made so many friends at the
Chicago Fly-casting Clubs scientific
angling tournament last September, in
his official capacity as timekeeper of the
various events. Should all the committee
prove as successful in their efforts to pro-
mote the coming tournament as Mr. Allen
was in enlisting the good will of all
anglers he met in Chicago, the Midwin Ter
FAIR angling competitions must eventuate
most satisfactorily.
The February number of the Popular
Science Monthly contains a fve-page arti-
Gle by Professor NJ. b. Anderson on the
clever scientist, David Starr Jordan, and
the following are some extracts which will
interest anglers:
From his mother he seems to have in
herited his executive power and from his
father his literary instinct. He grew up a
very unusual farm product-a shy, OBJ
servant lad, much given to lonely excur-
sions with copy of Grav's Botany in one
pocket and Longfell0w's poems in the
other. He came to his studies as
boy comes to a Widespread table-with
healthy appetite. A stranger to 'crarn,"
his mind assimilated its own. rejected
verted from a natural organ into machine
for gerund grinding.
He was prL baby the best man of his
time at college, yet he was rarely seen TO
study. He paid his expenses in one way
and another by his own la Dor, yet he was
a man of leisure. Despite his carelessness
with respect to his personal appearance
and despite his whimsical address, his spir-
1tual qualities marked him out as a man of
hDe breeding.
AS teacher Jordan makes the impress
sion OF weight, sincerity and simplicity.
lie rests down confidently upon the sub
]ect and makes that speak. LabOrs which
break down ordinary men he takes as
easily as game of baseball, in which he
delights. Grinding disappointments seem
to affect him little more than does the de-
feat of the faculty team by the freshmen.
The only thing that worries him is a full
dress dinner, with its dissipating accom-
paniments OF smoking. drinking and
speechmaking. He is so thoroughly i'm.
bued with the conviction that a straight
line is the shortest distance between two
points that he il Incapable of the circuit
Gus treatment of a subject essential to the
after-dinner speech.