The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-27
WITH THE ROD AND GUN.
The Country and Tamalpais
Clubs Pigeon-Shoot Is
Postponed.
Anglers Are Sending Very EnCour-
aging Reports from Noun
tain Lakes.

The proposed team shoot between the
Country and Tamalpais Gun clubs, which
was to have taken place on Saturday next
has been postponed until September, as
the best shots of the last-named club are at
present enjoying vacations in the country.
There will, however, be open shooting
matches on Saturday and Sunday at the
Oakland track at artificial birds, for which
many good prizes have been offered.
1t will be lawful to shoot doves on Mon
day next in any county of the State, and,
as the birds are reported to be quite plenti-
full this year in many places near at hand,
first-class sport il bound to result-that is,
wherever passways are found.
The season for shooting deer will not
open until July Is, but reports OF the kill
ing of deer by campers have been very
common during the present month, yet no
arrests have been made by either the
country or City officials.
Achille Roos has offered to back Fred
Butler of the Tamalpias Gun Club against
AL Cumming of the Byron Gun Club in a
shoot at sixty live birds to be held at the
Oakland track in the latter part of the sea-
son. The conditions of the match as
agreed upon state that Butler must give
Cumming handicap of fifteen birds, or in
other words, Butler 10 win must kill with
grassed forty-fve birds. The considera-
ton is said to be $200-$100 side.
Alfred Langerman returned from his
vacation in Yellowstone Park last Monday,
and lie speaks in glowing terms of the
grand sport that awaits lovers OF the rod
! and gun in that great game preserve. OF
the trout Mr.. Langerman saws that he has
had the sport of kings and that the gamest
fishes he has ever had the good fortune of
hooking where Loeb Leven trout, of which
variety the rivers of the Yellowstone are
now well supplied.
J. r. Moore, New York sportsman,
who is at present enjoying good fishing on
the McCloud River, writes to friend that
the rainbow trout are a very game fish and
| make more stubborn resistance than any
of tt e Eastern trout which, he has creeled
during his angling experience.
Having caught number of salmon in
! Canadian and Irish rivers on artificial
salmon flies, Mr.. Moore tried some of the
flies he had carefully placed away in his
! tiybook over six years ago, and was re-
warded by the capture of some of the large
! steelheads that remained in the deep pools
OF the McCloud River. Among the priced
beauties which he expected 70 ship to this
| City was large salmon, which, after a
| hard fight of almost three-auarters of an
hour, gained its freedom by the smashing
of leader. Mr.. Moore and a party of
friends will leave this City next month for
the famous Williamson River, where trout
of five pounds weight are numerous.
Jack Sammi, the secretary of the San
Francisco Rod and Gun Club, is at present
enjoying the pleasures and scenery of the
famous independence Lake in Nevada
County.
An idea of the sport that is now being
enjoyed on this lake may be taken from a
few lines of letter received yesterday by
friend of Sammi: They read:
fished three hours this morning and landed
seventy-three trout, varying from quarter to
two pounds in weight, and my best success
was on small spoon presented to me by
"Doc' Watt. The fish have just begun to take
a fly, and | expect TO have some good whip
ping for cutthroats in few days. The weather
is delightful and the climate superb.
Judge Hunt is domiciled at Weber
Lake. and writes that he is having good
sport. Fred Noyes and wife are having
sport galore catching trout in Lake indie
pendence.
Joe Shain telegraphed yesterday from
Boca that the trout of the Truckee River
have commenced to feed on the top, and
that he landed eighteen good-sized fish on
Tuesday. A. NJ. Sutton is spooning in In
dependence Lake. The San Andreas Lake
will be opened to anglers on Monday,
July 4.