The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-13
THE ANGLER.
Catching Pingerlings in Paper-Mill Greek.
Those Who Had Good and Poor Luck.

Catching Pingerlings in Paper-Mill Greek.
Those Who Had Good and Poor Luck.
Among the large number of anglers who
returned from Point Reyes and vicinity
last Sunday evening was an old veteran
stream-whipper who has not missed an
opening day of the trout-fishing season
since 1870. His basket contained several
small fish, with an occasional good-size
trout for display purposes on top of the
heap. He said that of the many streams
he had tished in the past twenty years
the Paper-mill was the most prolific of
any creek, considering the enormous guam
tity of ingerlings and large fish that have
been taken from it, especially in recent
years.
"Why, if the Fish Commissioners
fail to keep this beautiful stream well
stocked with trout every year" said the
old angler, there cannot possibly be any
trout in the stream in five years hence.
See this crowd? Why, there are enough
anglers here to clean out the creek from
top to bottom. The Lagunitas and Paper
mill are very convenient to this city, and
the train time to Point Reyes is such that
an angler can leave in the morning, get
five or six hours of fishing and return on
the same day with a nice mess of fish.
This is the principal reason why the
Paper-mill is so largely patronized by the
fraternity.
.''Now, there are other streams not any
further from the city-the Sonoma, for
instance, where just as good fishing, If not
better, can be had, but the railway accom-
modations are such that only those who
can afford two days vacation can visit
Glen Ellen.
''If train was run to the latter place on
Sunday mornings, returning from Glen
Ellen at 5 P. NJ, have no doubt that the
Sonoma Creek would receive large
amount OF the patronage the North Pacific
road is now enjoying. There are several
good streams south of this city, such as
the Los Gatos, Boulder and their tribu-
taries, that will pan out splendidly until
the latter part of the season, but the rates
to those places are too high, and as a con-
sequence few anglers from San Francisco
visit them on flying trips.
Many complaints have been made of the
slaughter of tingerlings last Sunday by
alleged anglers, many of whom actually
boasted of their achievements. Any ang
Ter who will boast of having killed sew
eral hundred little fish ranging in length
from two TO five inches should be con-
signed to glass case and presented to the
Academy of Sciences as one of the
living curiosities of the nineteenth
century. If an angler cannot do
any better on stream than to fill his creel
with lot of little fry he should quit fish
ing and wait until such time as the trout
will have grown to something like decent
proportions. OF course there are gluttons
among anglers as well as in all other lines
of sport, but the man who feels pride in
hogging everything regardless of size and
weight is quickly marked out as being a
fitting companion for those who, like him
self, viii not stop at anything as long as
there is an opening for slaughter.
Give the little fellows chance to grow,
gentlemen, and when fry of three or four
inches happens to fasten to your hook take
it off gently and return the little fellow to
its element. Who knows but the very
lingering that you liberated to-day may
fill large space in your basket or that of a
brother angler later in the. season? The
Supervisors of this city will be asked, in
the near future, to pass an ordinance maxi
ing it a misdemeanor for any person to
have in their possession trout of less than
six inches in length.
John Siebe and Al Wieland succeeded in
basketing a nice lot of trout last Sunday
from Throckmorton lagoon, a stream which
is tished only by members of the Tamalpais