The San Francisco call., 1896-08-22
GUN AND ROD.

Come and Go.
Now is the time when the disciple of
Izaak Walton is in the height of his glory.
From all over the State comes the news of
good catches made by parties early IN the
field, while others are shaking the metro
politan dust from their feet every day and
departing for the various streams cele-
brated for the fish they contain and as the
scenes of the most remarkable exploits of
local f1y-casters.
Good catches of trout are reported from
the lower Truckee. In fact this seems to
be the favorite fishing ground. They are
mostly taken with the spoon. as the moss
in the river interferes somewhat with fly
fishing. The coming week, however, will
be fine fishing on the Truckee.
A pleasure seeking company, composed
of 81. E. Skinner, A. G. Wieland, John F.
Siebe Baldwin Wood and Colonel Green
leaf, will leave for the Truckee fishing
grounds late this evening. Mr.. Skinner
will be accompanied on the excursion b y
his wife, who thinks she stands az good
chance as the gentlemen of the party in
hooking the speckled beauties.
Many parties have recently been to San
Andreas Lake in search of salmOn-trout,
Win WnlCQ Cu6S0 waters dOOQQu. MANY
good catches are reported of late, as the
GOODNESS of the weather has been condu-
Give to the trout taking the bait. Several
have been lucky enough to secure few
black bass, but these catches are compare
lively few.
Dr. James F. Stanton and NJ. ]. Geary
are still engaged in wooing the fnny tribe
powders of the Truckee River. If the
length of time of their excursion can be
considered as proper evidence they must
| be in need of stronger fish baskets now.
The San Francisco Fly-casting Club will
! have their semi-monthly tournament, in
which a competition will be had for med
ais, at Stow Lake this afternoon at 2
| o'clock.
| A. L. Langerson and AL Cummings went
| for a pleasure trip on the Truckee River
| last Thursday. So far, their friends have
received no fabulous tales and it is
shrewdly suspected that they are waiting
to make reputation on their return.
The season for the mountain quails and
grouse opened the 18th inst. Good shoot
! ing is reported in Mendocino, Lake and
Humboldt counties and in the vicinity of
Boca. The birds are not so well grown as
| is usual at this season.
Last Sunday Joseph Cresta and about
| five companions killed two magnificent
bucks in the region of Fairfax. Just back
as Fairfax Gulch, which the party reports
as teeming with deer of all sizes.
Mr.. Harvey of the Pope Manufacturing
Com pany, in company with two of his
friends. had very pleasant hunting ex-
cursion in the region OF the San Pedro
Canyon last Sunday. Three deer were
run from cover, and they succeeded in
crippling one of them, but the wounded
animal in its fight got onto the property
of the Spring Valley Water Company,
where none of the hunters dared trespass.
The following characteristic letter from
the sporting editor of the CALL speaks
very loudly for itself:
Among the heavy weight anglers and
grouse hunters who are now rusticating at
Boca, the great ice center of the Sierra, are:
Thomas Casey, "the humorous politician of
the water 'front.'; DR.. James Stanton who is
taking incidentally observations of the South
ern Pacific bridges and steel tracks; John
Bourdette, famous authority on Blackstone
and soapstone Sam Newman, whose reputation
for ease in solitary hooks is without question:
w. F. Bogart the picturesque angler, who dis
dains to use anything but 'sa f1y'' to catch fish
A. r. Crowell, man who never gets excited
when grouse shooting; Alex Ireland, an artis-
tic angler, who has the utmost confidence in
the Wett spoon for catching minnows: "John
Bugg" Walker, a lover of nature and good eat
ing; Mr.. Cooper, the champion spoon caster
and several other disciples of the rod and gun
who are having good sport in the high alti-
tudes.
Casey caught well-conditioned log on Mon
day last while casting for rainbows and sun
fish in the Truckee River; DR.. Stanton caught
cold; Sam Newman caught q beautiful an
petite; Bourdette caught onn to-day but he
has not yet succeeded in landing his game;
Crowell caught good ducking through Slip
on smooth rock; Bogart expects to catch q
train this evening. In fact IT seems to be a
case of catch-as-catch-can with the disciples of
Walton who are at present rusticating in the
mountains. Fishing on the Truckee is not
good now, as the water is still too high and
tons OF moss are floating down the river
Grouse shooting is good. The birds are plenti.
ful. but very small this year. A thunder
storm Is oaiiy expected NJ. ]. GEARY.
The results of last Sundays shoots of
the Lincoln Club at Alameda Point were
as follows:
First class-Daniels first money. Nan.
man and Webb divided second money.
Second class-Murdock won first money
Wlnzel, Hafght and Andrus divided Sec
ond. Third class-Foster was first. Alder
ton and Wagner second Fourth class
Price and Ostrander divided first and
second.
August 30 the Pacific Tournament Asso-
ciation Will hold shoot at Alameda juno
tion- The first event will be 100 birds
from unknown traps and angles, SQUAD
shooting, entrance So, birds included.
twenty dollars will be added to the purse