The San Francisco call., 1896-08-01
THE ANGLER.
Good Bass Fishing In Russian. River.
How Streams Are Stocked
With Trout

GooQ Bass FlShing In Russian River,
How Streams Are Stocked
With Trout.
According to the letters which have
been received at this office from stations
near the Russian River, black bass fishing
affords good. sport to anglers.
For some strange reason trout and bass
fishing at San Andreas Lake is very poor.
The bass in the lakes of the Spring Valley
Water Company are not fit to eat this
year, 'as they taste strongly of the de-
cayedovegetation, which also gives very
unpleasant flavor to the water. 1t is said
that fhe company is seriously thinking of
removing the tons of dead weeds and
W atergrass which line the bottom of San
Andreas and Crystal Spring lakes.
Bas s fishing is first class at Tenner
Lake, whic is located about four miles
from Cisco. oMr. Finch caught twenty
two bass in less than one hours fishing
on this lake one day last week, and he en-
ioyed the sport greatly because the fish
were caught by means of fly castings.
Those which he shipped to his friends in
this City ran from one-ha If to one pound
in weight and were of excellent flavor.
E In a recent report of the Fisn Com.
missioners relative to the stocking of
streams with the fry of cutthroat and
Paper:mi 0creeks were stocked with sew
eral thousand young cutthroats. If the
many other streams which have also
been stocked by the Commission "pan
OUT as well as the Sonoma and Paper
mill creeks anglers need not expect to
have much sport in the future, as the
scale of q cutthroat mas not been taken
asA Ahor ,ff fho pier ion ,n6
season.
Anglers say that it is very doubtful if
cutthroat-that is. under the system of
stocking as now employed by the com mis-
sion-will ever be taken from the creeks
within easy reach of this City. 1t has
been learned.that year or SO ago deputy
of the Fish Commission journeyed to
and Paper-mill creeks and dumped few
cans of little fishes into the water where
they could be readily devoured by the
large trout, native to the stream. This is
what the commission calls stocking"
sire ans, but of course there never was nor
will there ever be any favorable results
accruing from this crude and wasteful
system of planting young fshes.S
The Fish Commissioners of New York
State have learned by long experience and
careful study that the planting of trout
fry under a year is a waste of time and
expense, but it is presumed that the Cali
fornia Commissioners can give their con-
freres of the East lesson in trout propa-
CATION, etc.
John Mcdonald of Boca shipped mag
nificent 615-pound rainbow trout to Henry
Skinner of E. T. Allen Company last
Wednesday. to which justice was done by
the members of the San Francisco Rod
and Gun Club at their quarterly banquet.
The, fish was pronounced excellent and of
splendid favor.
liam Cooper will shortly leave for few
weeks trout-fshing on the Truckee River.
The stream is yet too high for good fly
fishing, but is getting into shape rapidly.
Charles Green and three com panions are
now angling for bass at Russian River
station. 1t is said that the bass-fishing
near Guerneville is first-class at present.
The spoon and minnow are the successful
lures,