The San Francisco call., 1896-07-04

ing for few weeks outing in the country.
The party will camp at Gravely Valley,
which is a good game and fishing section,
near the south fork of the Eel River, in
Meudocino County.
DR.. Mckenzie and family and Mrs.
Timothy Hopkins left this City last
Wednesday for Soda Springs, where good
trout fishing is now to be had.
Il. Battu and friend had u very excel.
lent days trout fishing on Alameda Creek
near the confluence of the Calaveras
Creek last Sunday. Mr.. Battu had two
flsh among those caught that scaled one
and one and half pounds respectively.
Captain George Cumming recently left
this City :or some black bass fishing in the
Russian River near Duncan's Mills. The
Captain will leave this City for Lake In
dependence when he returns from the bass
waters. Charley Green will visit the Rus
sian River to-day.
Ed Bosqui has Just returned from
Eureka, Humboldt County. He states
that the net fishermen are now catching
large quantities of young steelheads near
the mouth of Eel River.
Edward Kolb, the all-round sportsman
and athlete, left here last Wednesday with
General Dickinson for an outing north of
Uklah. The sportsmen will camp in the
vicinity of John Days resort, at the head
waters of the Eel River. Mr.. Kolb is au-
thority for the statement that wild sheep
with antlers are very plentiful in the
vicinity OF the camping ground.
L. Miller and Edward Shadd baskeued a
very nice lot of trout last Sunday. They
tished the Lagunitas Creek at night and
report that the large fish cannot be taken
after sunrise.
The Fly-casting Club will hold its next
meeting at Stowe Lake on the afternoon
of the 11th inst.
SnDdau -,
loyed most successful outing on San
Andreas Lake: 2. Quinlan and party, w.
Whelan, Al Smith, II. P. Terry, Bob Tay-
lor. j. Butler, c. Precht, J. Meyers and &.
j. Bates. 1t is thought that there will be
at least fifty rods on the lake tomorrow.
In a.few weeks the trout will grow wise
and wary and will not act as foolish as they
do now. Experience teaches even trout
The following interesting article on
salmon and salmon-6shing was published
IN an Eastern exchange. The writer says:
The question of the fish taking the fly as
food does not las it seems to me to be correct)
enter into the problem. In trying TO learn
whether the salmon partakes of food after
IL enters fresh water have examined the
digestive organs of about fifty salmon
without finding anything whatever in
by Mr.. Hallock in his Salmon Fisher, and
by J. Parker Whitney, and short recital
may not be amiss. Mr.. Hallock says:
1.-The sole purpose of the spring rum of the
salmon in entering the rivers is for the object
of feeding. Barb fishing was the primitive
method OF killing salmon" About the use of
the fly Mr.. Hallock regards it as an affectation
which had is origin among gentlemen sports
men who deemed it as more consistent with
higher ideas of sport than bal ted hooks The
first anglers on this side for salmon were
British officers who affected only high art in
killing the salmon. AS the salmon is alleged
stomach Mr.. Halloek thinks this is the reason
why no food is found after the first has been
killed
Mr.. Whitney says that the salmon upon en-
terlng fres water ceases TO partske of food,
and the gullet, stomach and digestive organs
shrink or diminish so that it is evident they
are not employed TO discharge their normal
functions; in the intervals between its en-
trance into fresh water and return TO salt
water the salmon is sus tanned by the enormous
amount of fat which is stored in its body
These views, so briefly summarized, are the re-
suit OF much patient labor and investig ation.
Yet, gentleman on the Newfoundland coast
told me that he had seen a mouse which must
nave been swallowed while swimming taken
out OF salmon's stomach, and the story was
credlbly verified, and these instances can be
multiplied. l believe, however that the in
stances only exist where the fish has swallowed
the food in salt water. 1t is certain that the
salmon will take the fly on the tenth or fif-
teenth cast, sometimes more, and how can this
be reconciled with the food theory?
have seen the salmon lie in the pools, and
have failed TO rise them after untiring exer-
tions and almost endless patience. | have
noted where the salmon were lying, cast five
or SIX times, changed the fly, repeated my cast
ing, waited quarter or half an hour, cast again,
changed to the first iy, and finally got that
salmon after three hours work. 1t is fairly
agreed that If the salmon rises, and m isses the
fly or is not stabbed by the fisherman, it is i'm
possible TO get that fish to rise without a
change of flies. And, again, anglers are united
ii saying that after you rise the salmon you
should at once stop casting, reel in your line
and allow the fish at least the time 1t takes to
smoke your pipe, freshly flied and deliber-
ately smoked, or a Havana cigar, or if like
me-unforlunate one-you have never learned
to appreciate tobacco, then let at least ten
minutes pass into nothingness before you
make an other cast.