Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-27


stock a large size country store.
William Tufts and Charles Ruggles
report a good Sunday fishing trip at
Ocean Park. Ruggles caught fifteen
surf fish, Weighing from one to two
croaker weighing seven and one-half
pounds.
A.. B. Conrad and wife, with John
Winston, last Sunday went to Sunset
Beach and report a fine catch of surf
fish weighing from four and one-half
to three and one-half pounds. Fifteen
nippers were also captured.
Charles Van Valkenberg went to
Redondo Sunday and reports the time
of his life in fishing for pompano These
fish are reported to be of large size and
plentiful.
The first shoot of the Los Angeles
Gun club will be held at Sherman next
Sunday.
Edward Mitchell Rey M. Tufts, w.
L. Brady and r. S. Hodges will start
for the west fork of the san Gabriel
river next Saturday on trout fish
ing trip.
The monthly medal shoot of the
held next Sunday at Schutzen park.
Last Sunday Harry Sloan and Claude
Beck entered In a shooting match of
200 yards at a German ring target for
a dinner for the entire club at So
plate, and as a result Beck won 1874
shots out of possible 200 while Sloan
shot 143 GU tof possible 200. The din
ner will be served at Levy's some time
this week.
At San Pedro last Sunday Louis
Striver and Verge Grimes caught sew
eral large croakers off the pier and
enjoyed a good view of the Japanese
warships.
H. H. Hixon. who fished off the pier
at San Pedro last Sunday, reports
taking four large croakers within
few minutes. Hixon Is out after gold
button offered by the California Rod
and Reel club for the member captur-
ing the largest yellowfln.
Fred c. Hartman will spend several
days with rod and reel at Follows
camp, fishing for trout. Hartman will
be gone for at least ten days, start
ing Wednesday.
Peter Peterson, Oscar Lane and A. e.
Edison will spend few hours fishing
off Clifton next Sunday,
Frank Mitchell, W. H. wiltshire and
Red Dougherty of the Hoegee COM
pany will forget business for several
days to try their luck in trout fishing
at Follows camp, starting May 1.
Archie Freeman will go to Matilda
Springs within the next few days on
trout fishing trip, and will be gone at
least month.
w. Campbell came in from Sunset
Beach yesterday, where he went for
two days fishing trip, and reports hav-
ing caught a nice backet of surf fish.
A. M. Morse, as usual, spent Sunday
at Hermosa Beach and caught four
large yellowfin and several perch. He
did not get a bite until after 5 o'clock
in the evening and stayed by his game
until 0.
Anglers who have used salmon roe
as a lure with which to entice game
fish must in the future hunt some other
kind of bait, as Governor Gillett has
signed the bill which passed the legis-
lature and which makes it INSIDE
meanor to use salmon spawn in fish
ing.
Edwin r. Abbott, secretary of the
Southern California Rod and Reel club,
failed to take his day off Sunday to
fish at his old favorite fishing pool
and instead went up to San Fernando,
where he sold enough lots to cover the
Old Peoples home.
The shrimp will now have to take
the place of the salmon roe, which lure,
although enticing to steelheads, is
about the most disagreeable bait for
the capture of the fish.