The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
 THREE GREAT
 DAYS WITH ROD AND RIFLE.

when deer can be lawfully killed will end on the 15th inst. This is in accordance with an ordinance passed by the Super visors of Marin last year. The State law gives deer hunters until October 15 in which to bag male deer.
 As there are many of the wholesale houses which closed their doors yesterday not to open them again until Monday, the boys who love the gun and dog will certainly make the best use of the holi- days to enjoy favorite pastimes. There are now several parties camped in the hills and mountains, and almost daily reports have been received at this office and at the sporting goods houses of the success achieved by the wielders of the rifle and the rod.
 Yesterday Al Newman, Picolo Molloy, Lloyd Eaton, Charley Dietz and Frank Hoffiing, with a pack of hounds, left for Tocaloma intent upon killing the inn mense buck which has maimed several good hounds this year. Newman has taken a pledge that he will not return without old Toc.e
 John Lemmer. president of the Black Jack Shooting Club, left this city yes the duck ponds and the trails leading into the loa1lng grounds of the birds A letter from Colonel Remfree of Antioch, which was received by Secretary Markland on Tuesday, stated that the "Black Jacks' have already put in an appearance and that everything looks favorable for the inaugural bombardment on October l.
 The many friends of James Watt will regret to learn that that well-known ang- Ter sustained a severe loss recently in the death of his estimable wife.
 Small striped bass are very plentiful In Tomales Bay and a few of those game fishes were caught last week at the big pool near the White House. Several striped bass have also been caught re- GAnIlV of ha old Island farm, Alameda marsh The best killing lures are soft shell crabs and clans.
 A large party of anglers will leave this city for Eel River on the next steamer bound for Eureka. Among the anglers who will enjoy happy, hours on the Eel Brennan, pr. von Hoffman, Colonel keliehor, John penn, J. McCauley, E. Van Slyke and John Bergez.
 Last Tuesday the Hon. Thomas Finn. John Gallagher, champion of Oakland. with Messrs. Casey and Lynch. set sail for the great Eel River It goes without great mauling when those famous disci- pies of the angle hook on.
 Harry Rabcock, who recently arrived fishing as being. excellent. He left again on Friday to enjoy more sport.
 John Gallagher and Colonel Kelehor should make the most interesting team of
 Major Miles, General J. H. Dickinson, Ton, Tom Barney, Colonel sharp, Charles and returned from Duncans Mills last Mon day with eight deer. inc game was bagged in two days hunting. The sports men camped at Trosper's on Austin Creek.
 Al Cumming, w. H. Chalmers, Fred Bushnell and Johnny Coleman are at
 BiIy Bogard left Thursday e; evening for TTuckee. He will locate at Verdi.
 , Messrs. Faymontville and King of the Country Club are angling on Lake Web
 Ex-senator John spellacy and wife and John Harrigan and wife have just re- turned from a trip by team from Eel are dying from some unknown cause in the vicinity of Bells Springs, which is near near the dividing line of Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
 Sportsmen would be pleased to learn that Game Warden Mogan would give a little of his attention to the game mar kets and restaurants from now until the opening Of the game season.
 The annual picnic and pigeon shoot of the Lincoln Gun Club will be held on Sunday at Greenbrae. Everybody is in vited. The programme consists of a tWelve-bird team race; entrance, price of birds. There will also be pool-shooting ad
 Field Sports. a monthly paper devoted to divers pastimes, made its appearance on the 1st inst. For the past live years conducted and managed by H. T. Payne. who is a well-known authority on mat ters that pertain to field and kennel.
 Because of the fact that the daily pa pers are now giving much attention to current sporting events, the present owner of Field Sports, Thomas Flynn, wisely concluded that monthly Journal, with handsome illustrations of local hap penings in the field of sport and instruc- tive articles from the pens of able writers, would fill so to speak, long-felt several beautiful illustrations, should be seen to be appreciated. The angling scenes are particularly good. Leashmen gaze upon the pictures descriptive of the coursing sward On the whole, Field Sports, as monthly journal of sport. has
 The old idea about ''the boy with the beanpole' beating the city man with his fancy fly rod at catching fish is pretty nearly exploded. It is quite true that catch fish readily with the most ordinary kind of tackle, simply because they know the stream where the trout turk, ture But there is no doubt that those same country boys, given fine tackle and 8 knowledge of how to use 1t, would dou- ble, treble and even quadruple their own record bags made previously with the his toric beanpole It doesn't follow, either that the city man, simply because he has fine article of a rod, the best of flies and the finest of leaders, Is anything of a fisherman He may be skillful in wield- ing his rod and may cast his line with all the dexterity and skill in the world, but unless he Is a natural-born fisherman one in whom the fishing instinct was strong from the time he quit swaddling clothes, he'll never amount to much as a catcher of fish, That class of men the country boy with his beanpole can dis count.
 The following letter from Stanford Uni versity to The Call will interest anglers and pisciculturists:
 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 9.-Dr. Jordan was interviewed to-day concerning the big salmon that was re- gently caught in the Sacramento River with its adipose fins removed, which was reported to have exploded the ac- cepted theory that it takes Pacific Coast salmon from three to five years to develop.
 He said that he felt sure that the twenty four pound salmon just caught was not matched in the Columbia River. and that it was not one of the fish from which the adipose fins were removed in the spring of 1897 at the United States Fish Commission hatchery, Clackamas. for the purpose of Identification. He remarked that the fish just taken was at least four years of age and perhaps five. The fact that the adipose fins were missing he considers of little in- portance.
 Other hatcheries have. used the same