The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-27
SPORT IN MBND0CINO.
News From Ukiah Which viii Touch the
Hearts Of ANGLERS and Sportsmen.


Hearts of Anglers and Sportsmen.
UKIAH, April 26.-The fishing season
in the vicinity of Ukiah, Mendocino
County, has opened in good earnest, and
the lovers of sport can indulge in their
favorite pastime to their hearts content.
Thanks to the work of the Ukiah Sports
mans Club the streams have a bountiful
supply of trout. Hitherto people who had
no regard for legitimate sport or the law
would do most of their fishing prior to the
1st of April, and in consequence the streams
would be robbed before the open season
begun and the sport spoiled for the year.
The Sportsman's Climb have kept the prin-
pal streams patrolled and have had a stand
ing reward for information which would
lead to conviction of those violating the
law, and hence good sport can now be had
in any of the trout streams of the county,
and they are numerous. The use of giant
powder and other explosive substances by
InlscTeants who cared only for the guam
THY of fish has been effectually stopped.
Last year the Fish Commissioners gener-
ously stocked most of the main streams,
and promised to give a generous distribu-
ton Of young fish again this year gem
orally throughout the Mendocino streams,
Of which there are many. Mendocino
County is the sportsman's paradise, and
the Ukiah Sportsman Club and the citi-
Zens propose to keep it such.
The streams Of the county may be
classed as interior" and coast" The
interior streams are the Russian River and
tributaries, covering the territory east OF
the watershed, marking the source of the
ocean streams, from Potter Valley, about
twenty miles north of Ukiah, and south to
Cloverdale.
Every stream that flows west to the
Pacific through the forest belt is in
itself charmed virgin spot waiting for
the genuine lover of outing sport and
nature in her unmolested condition.
This season, owing to the late heavy
antee excellent sport later in the summer
and fall.
The water, exceptin the smaller streams,
is high and somewhat murky, but notwith-
standing several good creels of trout have
been brought in.
F. H. Eastman, the commissary of the
Mendocino Asylum, is the fisherman Of
whom all the aspiring sportsmen of Ukiah
are Justly Jealous. 1t is said he can catch
trout in the road after the rain. In fact he
did catch two beauties in the road where
it crosses Russian River coming home
day or two since. Those were two elegant
specimens Of salmon trout of proportions
respectable enough to weigh about three
pounds apiece.
James 4. Cooper and J. C. Ruddock, two
of Ukiah's prominent attorneys, took
very happy party out TO Walker Creek on
Saturday last and had a most enjoyable
day. The occasion of the trip was a prom
Use made by these gentlemen to their
daughters, Miss Ethel Cooper and Miss
Alice Ruddock, Of an outing on the first
occasion of Miss EthePS vacation from her
school at Berkeley. There were Mrs. J. A.
Cooper, Mrs. J. r. Mathews, Miss Ethel
Bachtel, Miss Grace Mathews, Miss Madge
Theaker of Victoria, guests and school
mates OF Miss Cooper; Miss Mabel Hirsch,
Miss Alice Chalfant and Master Ernest
Mathews and those first named.
Several of the young ladies caught their
first trout on that occasion and the woods
resounded with the exultant shout OF the
cantor About $50 trout were creeled and
they were soon served crisp and toothsome
in the camp on the shady bank of the
stream. Mrs. Cooper is at home on trout
stream, and, with her rod and reel and
creel and outing garb, makes formidable
rival for any of the sterner sex who assume
to be inimitable "Waltons."
Amid the grass and flowers, under va
riegated canopy of fresh foliage, a bounti-
full lunch was spread, and songs and recl-
tations given, and the whole party voted
the day as one OF the most enjoyable of
their lives.
Mrs. Bowling and the Misses Bowling of
Ukiah ana d. G. Heger and wife of San
Francisco enjoyed a similar outing on Rob
inson Creek, and reported day filled with
pleasure and baskets filled with trout
We expect to chronicle during the season
the items of sporting interest in Mendo-
cino, and some of the stories that can be
told by the mountaineers of that romantic
country.
The Ukiah Sportsman's Club contem-
plates trout outing in the near future.