The San Francisco call., 1898-09-17
AMONG THE HUNTERS
 AND THE FISH-KILLERS

Among the well-known sportsmen who will spoon and whip the Eel River during the coming week are J. V. Coleman Billy" Foote, Dan O'Connell, Judge O. P. Evans, John Benn, T. Macauley, John Butler, Colonel w. Keliehor, Fred Ven ker, John Gallagher and Tom Flynn. On board the next steamer which will leave for Eureka will be Colonel Young, Frank Maskey, J. H. Sammi, Fred Johnson and H. Smyth.
 Steelheads are now moving up the river in large numbers and the anglers from this city who will locate at Grizzly Bluff will certainly enjoy royal sport.
 Several striped bass have been caught during the past few weeks in the sloughs that meander through Bay Island and Alameda County. Quite a number of anglers will try their luck tomorrow
 Al Newman and party returned last Monday from Tocaloma with one nice buck but Newman stated positively that old "Toc,'' the immense deer which maimed several dogs this season. is still in the land of the living. and that the report of his death was premature.
 Newman is also willing to wager that the deer has not been killed and that the buck which was bagged by John Oswald, and not MT. Siebert as reported, was several pounds less in weight than old Toe who stiii roams the hills on the 
 Last Saturday and Sunday the Truckee Messrs. xsr '1Ea1 carman, Man Mansfield. ps Wogelsang Siebe, Haldan, Friedlander; IT. Hamilton. J; H. Hooper. The lovers of fly casting re- port having. had excellent sport during morning and duty evening; ooo son. ,oo,,4,s.,, six-pound trout to a friend last Wednes- day, The fish was caught within few hundred yards of the hotel. As the river is V hungry and sport will be good during the season.
 the Lincoln Gun Club will be held to- morrow at Greenbrae. The first event will be a twelve-bird team race. and the seeond ssII, event sixobrd oa,p shoot t does not credit an Associated Press re- port that the salmon recently caught in those set free from the. Clackamas hatch cry, Oregon, or that they can be identi- fled with the Clackamas fish because of the absence of the adipose fin. In an in-
 If they can be so identified, 1t is significant fact, for scientific experts have not believed that salmon ever wander so Moreover, the fish referred to were liber- ated from the hatcheries in the spring of 1896 instead of 1S97 as the report had 1t.
 Ut is true, however, that the plan of marking by the removal of the adipose fin has overthrown the accepted theory of Jordan and Gilbert. in at least two particulars"
 Tt has demonstrated the fact that eggs taken in August and September do not produce late runs. It has been found that fishes from eggs taken in Septem- Der return to their rivers in the early spring months. Some 5000 marked fish were liberated at the Clackamas hatchery May q. 1896, while the eggs were taken the previous fall. It also refutes the idea that four years are required for salmon to reach maturity, and then return to their rivers to spawn. Chinook salmon. at least have been known to return fully matured with an approximate average of thirty pounds in weight in less than three years from the time of the taking of the eggs:
 conception of W. r. Hubbard superin tendent of fish culture for the Northwest hatcheries."