Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06
IMMENSE TROUT
TAKEN AT TAHOE
BIG BEAUTIES OFFER RARE
ENJOYMENT
sPoRTsMEN FIND FLY FISHING
EXCELLENT
Rod and Reel Experts Whip Mountain
streams--Record Broken by Rail-
road Man Who Catches
Thirty Founder
pY MANOR BEES 9. TRUMAN

the giant pines anu utS tthV
upon the most stately and majestic IN
land sea In the world, and listens 10
the music from the gurgling waters Oh
the Truckee river, the more he is con-
strained to opine that he has not lived
in vain. At any rate, that seems TO De
the impression of a multitude OF peo,
pie from all parts of this stape anu
Nevada, many of whom remain weeks
and months, so difficult Is II 10 preak
away from scenes SO completely Area
dian, Joyous and grand.
The present season-say from the
first of September until the middle OF
October-is the most delightful OF the
year at Tahoe. The mornings are sun
nv and clear and crispy and bright, and
the evenings are much the same, except
that the going from view of the mon
arch of the day is illuminated by
mighty procession Of Kaleidoscope col
ors Indeed, the autumn sunsets on
Tahoe are remarkable for their extrav-
agant wealth of coloring and unsur-
passed beauty, and have been pro-
nounced by all American and European
artists who have seen them, and by
other close observers of fantastic solar
and cloud effects, as greatly superior
to those SO often mirrored in Constance,
Como and Maggiore. Albert Bierstadt
once said to me that no painter would
dare to put on canvas the mighty array
during a descending autumn sun. Like
Yosemite valley and the big trees, the
greatness and grandeur of Tahoe re-
mains forever on the tablets of the be-
holders mind.
Tells of Delightful Lake
I have seen and sailed on nearly all
the notable lakes of the United States
and Europe, many of which are pos
sessed of indescribable charm. Lake
George, for instance. is a gem of ex-
treme prettineSs and daintiness, and
Champlain betrays attractive CONNER
cial activities; Lucerne, on account Of
its many old bridges and picturesque
cites and towns, arrests the attention
of the traveller on all sides; Erie and
Michigan are ocean-like and mighty;
Geneva is lovely apd splendid through
out; and Como and Maggiore are be-
wftchingiy beautiful. But Tahoe is
loftier and more majestic, statelier and
more impressive, grander and more
omnipotent; and its waters surpass all
others in purity and clearness and in
their wonderful and magnificent depths.
And these waters never freeze, and are
nearly as cold in summer as in winter.
No other body of water in the world
presents similar conditions, as all the
lakes in the Alps and Pyrenees. in the
Rockies and Alleghanies, freeze partly
or ali over; and so. also. do the other
lakes of the Sierra-Weber freezing
clear through and Donner half way
down. During the summer months Ia
hoes temperature only reaches a few
degrees higher than at other seasons.
which decreases with decreasing depth
to about 700 feet, while below this depth
there Is no change, it being about six
degrees above the freezing point. This
coldness of the lower water is given as
the reason why drowned bodies never
rise.
The trip around the lake is one of the
most delightful and exhilarating em-
braced in any itinerary, and takes
about seven hours, say from about $3.50
until 4:30; and seventy odd miles are
traversed. The principal steamer is
the Tahoe, trim, safe, pretty craft,
with seating accommodations for nearly
200 passengers. There are several other
staunch boats owned by the Tahoe
Transportation company, and innumer-
able gasoline launches and smaller
craft. The trip embraces stoppings at
Idlewild, McKinneys, Emerald bay. Tall
lac, Lakeside, Glenbrook and a number
of smaller places; and the palatial
summer homes of Fred Kohl, Isaias
Hellman, VIII Tevis and others are
passed.
AS is we'll known the fishing in Ta-
hoe and the fourteen other lakes that
Tallac is undoubtedly the best in
America and the pounds of trout taken
every season from Tahoe exceeds that
of any hundred lakes elsewhere. Hun
dreds of pounds are shipped to San
Francisco daily from the first of June
until the middle of October and all the
hotels on the lake serve trout from
once to twice daily. The fish are taken
principally by trolling q few miles
from shore at any point. Those taken
in this way average from one pound
to four pounds, the mean weight being
two pounds each. 1t is not uncommon
to get two or three five-pounders In a
forenoon, and twice this year fourteen
Founders have been brought in, and one
twenty -six-pounder in June; and last
week ]. M. Haley, superintendent Ia
hoe railway, landed thirty-pounder,
the largest ever taken since records
have been kept. There is one of the
best conducted and most successful
hatcheries here Zone mile from Tahoe
tavern) in the United States; and in
1905 100000 little fellows were hatched
out and properly distributed; in 1906
there We're 100000 and in 1907 100000.
These are fed on finely hashed liver
and SKINNED milk for many weeks and
then placed In the creeks running into
the lake out of reach of bigger trout,
where they remain until they can take
care OF themselves, as the Dig HSH dfo
great cannibals. Another method of
fishing in Lake Tahoe is from an an
chored boat near shore, with rod and
reel and live bait (minnows). These
trout taken here average about a
pound-thus fifty will weigh anywhere
from forty-five to fifty-five pounds.
Fly fishing is great sport for miles
along the Truckee river and in smaller
streams flowing into Tahoe and also in
Cascsade, Fallen Lean Gilmore, Grass
and other accessible lakes.
AS a Los Angeles attorney said to
me the other day: Lake Tahoe Is at
present an annex of Southern Califor-
MIA" Truly so; for at the Tahoe tav-
ern a few days before there We're
eighty-two people from Los Angeles.
twelve from Pasadena, two from Ocean
Park, two from Hollywood and two
from Pomona; at the Tallac hotel there
were twenty-eight from various points
In Southern California;; at Glenbrook
eleven and at the Brockway seven.
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