Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-10
ANANIAs CLUB GETS SOME NEW
POINTERS
pIscovERER FETEp IN NORTH,
HE SAYS
Captain Paul Flammer and John n
Bean Tell Remarkable Exploits
Around Vancouver, Where
They Establish Records


day night the meeting was postponed
until last evening, when the members
II of the club gathered in the assembly
room at the police station and trans
acted the usual weekly routine OF busi-
ness and then settled down to an even
ing of solid enjoyment such as has be-
come famous in the annals of the club.
Captain Paul Flammer, head OF the
/ detective department, and John II.
/ Bean the we'll known Valencia street
| contractor, were the star performers OF
/ the meeting.
! Captain Flammer and Mr.. Bean have
| recently returned from trip as far
north as Vancouver and Victoria, ana
| while UP in the sound country they IN
dulged in the piscatorial art quite ex-
tensively and they had new and Won
drous tales to relate when they got
back.
| Captain Flammer has one of these
modest retiring dispositions which
| shrinks from publicity of any KIND no
matter how greatly 1t may rebound to
| his credit, and he insisted before ne
| related his veracious narrative that
| while 1t might be inscribed and filed in
| the archives of the club for reference
| in the future he wanted no publication
made of his achievements for the rea-
| son, he explained, that he did not wish
/ to detract any from the accomplish
ments of other members of the club.
Tells for Sports Good
ct wish to state in the first place
began the captain, that I am not much
| of a fisherman and I cannot begin to
equal any of the achievements OF my
brother officers. I learned something
mn north. however, that may be or
value to the disciples of Walton in this
end of the country, and l tell TINS true
tale simply for the good that may
come of it and not for the purpose OF
heaping any honors upon my unworthy
self. ;.
'when-I left here on my vacation II
was simply to take trip for rest and
quiet. and with that end In view en-
gagged passage on a big coast steamer
which took me all the way to van
couver
aT had a royal time and did not in
tend to do any fishing, but up IN tnat
country they have remarkably hne
game fish of the bass tribe which is
from its bright color called the blue
bass. 1t is a fine food fish and beats
ANYTHING I've ever heard of for game
ness 1t certainly does put up hgnt:
TT is a shy fish. however. and sell
dom any of them are caught with ron
and reel There was no kind OF bait or
lure that will entice them, and until
|
dropped onto a new kind of bait the
record catch in that country of blue
bass with rod and reel was three hsn'
Eleven in Nine Minutes
"Mr. Bean broke all records, but he
will tell YOU about catching eleven
twentv-pound blue bass in nine min
utes. My story has only to do with my
personal experience and the discovery
nf the new live bait which they will
take I took seven fish in five minutes
and all of them would go about sixteen
pounds.
nound sneckled trout on four-ounce
casting rod and you have some IDEA OF
the kind of sport we had.
zone day. armed with a little wisp OF
a rod and a single strand line, went out
on the dock and with No. IA hooks on
f1y leader started to fish for chubs.
Clubs are a great fish up in that coun-
try and are esteemed ais delicacy. Ihey |
seldom run over six ounces in weight. |
but usually you can catch basket full
in few minutes.
ST had caught quite number OF cnups
and was making cast for another. AS
nv line flew through the air small
English sparrow flew just over my head. |
One of .my hooks fastened in the bird
and it became impaled firmly on the
small barb right through the back.
''In an instant more 1t was fluttering
on the top of the water, and then re-
markable thing happened. Like a flash
great blue and white streak of light
shot from the water and the bird was
taken at one gulp by big blue bass and
away 1t went with my reel humming like
an angry hornet
Natives GleefuI
"I soon checked him, however, and
after few minutes play had him to
gaff, and want to tell you he was a
beauty.
IAN old fisherman who was sitting on
the dock was standing there watching
the performance with eyes wide open and
mouth agape.
my friend he said, you have made
| one of the greatest discoveries ever.
Never before have the rod and reel fish
ermen of this country found a bait which
| the blue bass will take. and / am happy
to congratulate you. The town council
and his worship the mayor will no doubt
present you with Illuminated address as
soon as I report the matter to them
"To make break in my story, that is
lust what the mayor and council did. I
| tried to get the man to keep quiet but
he said in the interest of the great colony
of sportsmen of the northwest territory
he would have to tell 1t.
"Well, to get back to the fishing part
of it. Bean and 1 hired number of
small boys to trap sparrows for us and
the next day we went down to the docks
and started in fishing for blue bass
1--WE had the birds in cage and would
take one out and tie it to a leader. Then
we would make cast and away would
go the line and in a few seconds so
skillful did we become we would have
another big bass landed. only tried
1t that one day, but before we left there
everybody in Vancouver and Victoria
was fishing for blue bass with sparrows
] as bait, and even some Of the men caught
them, understand, with rats and gophers
and squirrels as live bait"
Bean Begins
Mr.. Bean took up the narrative and re-
lated in circumstantial detail his achieve
ment of catching his eleven big fish in
nine minutes.
'I caught them three at a time until
had landed nine" he said. land then
got two. They were great big gamey
| fish and put up an awful hard fight, but
I found out by keeping taut line and
giving them quick jerk could bring
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