Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-20
ANGLERS CATCH
MANY BEAUTIES
TAHOE TROUT ARE RISING TO
THE FLY
SOUTHERN sPoRTsMEN PRAISE
SCENERY
MAGNIFICENT Streams in Mountain
Country Furnish Happy Hours
for Men Who Love Fresh
Water Fishing
nv Major BEN G. TRUMAN


TABOR TAVERN, Lake Tahoe, Sept.
IA series of magnificent storiiiS'
lasting a few hours each, has enllveneo
this part of the Sierra NEVADA nlo '..1
tains, and added freshness anu WV
n.- of color IN the forestS-since l
lsst wrote you-and the denizens OF
lake and stream are being taken III
niooa, numbers. Hereafter, IN my
oninion. on account of the hatchlng OIL
q million of trout annually, rlShI het
at rrahoe. and the conscientious meth-
DDS of distribution by MI. Hunt anu
his assistants, Tahoe ana lts nelS ipot
ing lakes, and the Truckee river, WIZ
remain the most superior trouI nsli .
places in America. NoWauaSs 3, -, e,1,,o
TRANSFORMATION of the little fish from
the hatchery to the many points OF dls-
tribution. a constant supply OF oxygen
is furnished each can, and only ehoush
ice Is used to keep the temperature pe
tween az and so degrees. MT. hunt III
formed me yesterday that out OF tie
900. 900 little fellows deposited WITHIN ms
Jurisdiction last year 750,OoO were uu-
doubleday alive and would De daPa-
ciously ready to attack spoon OF ny VI
live halt next season. By the way, the
fish hatcheries of California expect 10
deposit during october about S,OOO'ooU
each of steelhead, cutthroat and ram
how and about 100000 each OF dolly
vardens. Loeb Leven and EASTERN
nearly 100000 in all.
The Tahoe hatchery will distribute
about 100000 of this 12,OOOOOo, Whlch
will make the fishing in the TrucKee
river and other smaller streams ana IN
Tahoe and neighboring higher lakes
excellent for many years to come.
AnqeIeno Anglers Lucky
Our Los Angeles tourists have had
very good luck as a general thing, A.
C. Bilicke taking eleven fine Cnes by
trolling the day before he left. Mr..
Stocking also brought in some me
catches several times; and only day
or two ago DR.. Jauck captured half
dozen beauties in a few hours. There
have been no large ones caught since
July, when there were hundreds of sill
yer trout weighing five pounds and up
wards taken, and fourteen between
five and ten pounds, six weighing be-
tween ten and fifteen pounds, one To-
FOUNDER, two 20-pounders and one 90
FOUNDER, the largest ever taken since
records have been kept Gas l made note
of in a former letter. by ]. U. Haley,
traffic manager of the Lake Tahoe
Railway & Transportation company
A very handsome rainbow, weighing
nearly two pounds, was taken with
fly from the Truckee river yesterday.
The best place to fish during the
months of September and october is in
the waters of Glenbrook, about thirteen
miles east of the Tavern, where good
catches are made daily by scores of
people. There is a superb hotel at
Glenbrook, so the person who wishes
to fish daily may be quite as well cared
for as at the more fashionable Tavern
and at a somewhat lesser rate. The
next best fishing is in the bay off
Brockway, where there is also not
only a good hotel and some noted hot
healing springs only a short distance
away. This can be accounted for in
great part because the waters ada
cent respectively to Tahoe, Tallac and
McKinney's have been trolled daily for
four months, thousands of pounds
having been sent by successful Wal
ions to friends in San Francisco during
that time. On Monday last 1 counted
forty-eight boxes containing about five
pounds of trout each, which had been
expressed from Glenbrook and Brock
way to San Francisco.
Real Sportsmen Are There
To be sure, there are still living
scores of San Francisco, Sacramento
and Los Angeles disciples of the never
to- be-forgotten Izaak who scorn both
spoon and bait. These seek the pure,
cold, translucent waters of the beauti-
ful Truckee river, clad in truly fisher
mans garb, with only the proper i'm
PIGMENTS of fly fishing, a lunch of
sandwich and hard boiled egg and, per-
haps a small flask of something sooth-
ing and stimulating as a concomitant.
These worshippers in natures sanctu-
aries leave the world behind them and
daily only with the waters of the
Truckee in their most Witching moods.
They familiarize themselves with the
changes in her countenance,
varying from sunshine to shadow, and
from shadow to sunshine, and catch all
the harmonies of her rapturous music.
They cast their flies where "rivulets
dance their hayward rounds" and the
of the merry little cataracts
sweetly drown all the discordant
sounds and thoughts they have left be-
hind. They meander the festooned
banks of one of the most bewitching
streams in the world and around lich-
en-Wreathed boulders that NAV have
been thrown in some brickbat war by
Titans; they inhale in
enable doors from tree and shrub and
blossom, and regale in an atmosphere
by that of any TTtopian
dream. So majestic are the far and
near earth giants, whose snowy sum-
mits sometimes seem to reach into the
very heavens, and so jocund are all the
other environments, that these Quiet
whispers of Truckee's sapphire waters
become unconsciously impressed with
the phantasmagoria of a celestial after
inath. Even the shyest and most deli
cate uncultivated flowers, set in the
mosaic of azure and golden MOSES
are everywhere revealed to their gaze
and they worship not in temples built
by hands.