The San Francisco call., 1908-07-12
Additional Sports News
Best Luck in Years
ontfhe Truckee

Bitter is the portion of the man
whose business interests keep him
within doors these days. If his sport
i've inclinations run to fishing he Is
IN doueiy hard luck, for never before
was the piscatorial sport so fine. Big
fish, low water, scarcity of feed in the
creeks and ideal fsherman's weather
all these and more are contained in re-
ports that were brought in by return
ing fishermen during the week. On
lasf Sunday, ii is estimated. more fish
were taken from the Truekee river than
ever before in it's history. One conserv-
Ative angler estimated that there were
, tour fycasters to every mile OF the
rivers length and every man jack OF
them caught the limit or close to 1t.
All week long members of the Fly
casters club thronged tine pretty head
quarters on the headwaters of the
Truckee. d. NJ. Sachs, Doe Watt. DIR.
Hopkins, T. C. KieruIff. Floyd Judah
and dozen other equally we'll known
fishermen were there and all made the
best catches of their fishing careers.
Reports which several of these who re-
turned brought down will have the
effeet of sending every foot loose MEM
Der of the club to the ground-and most
of these are now on their way, having
left last night on the late train.
Truckee river is the fishing center
Of attraction. McC1oud river of course
is furnishing good sport to many
parties of anglers. but all other condi-
tions equal it does not rank with
Truckee as trout stream. Tho small
er trout streams are dry or nearly so
and all fishing has long since been
discontinued in them.
The failure of the salmon schools to
show up in the bay is arousing deal
of comment among the fishermen. Their
total absence. when by ordinary rules
they should have appeared two weeks
ago, has not been explained. Two years
ago at this date the bay was alive with
salmon. a year ago it was about the
is being looked forward to with much
anticipation. as no fishing whatever
has obtained within convenient dis
tance OF the bay for weeks, and those
who eanot get away for any length of
time have been obliged to lie idle.
AT Santa Cruz and Monterey, where the
fishing should have been good a month
ago. q scarcity of fish is reported
News that run of striped bass be-
gan about the middle of the week
ia San Antonio slough will be pleasing
to many fishermen. Natives of the
slough enjoyed fairly good fishing on
Wednesday and again on Friday. Many
hooked. The run gave every Indication
of lasting for some time. By next
month striped bass fishing should be
at its height, and likely the fishing at
San Antonio will continue good until
the season is over.
Frank Carroll. L. Macarthur and a
party of friends spent last Sunday
fishing for black bass in Prospect
slough, below Sacramento. They re-
port that the bass are as plentiful as
ever. Both Carroll and Macarthur re-
turned with limit baskets.
Neal Russell, well known local
angler. left Thursday night for Cata-
lima, where he will undertake to con-
vince two Of his friends, one visitor
from Australia and the other from
England, that California has the finest
deep sea fishing in the world. His Aus
tralfan friend. Jacob Ayres, ranks in
his own country as kingpin of
anglers. while his other friend, John
Houston, has f1shed in all parts of the
world. The party win remain at the
southern resort for three weeks.