The San Francisco call., 1909-12-14
FISHING IMPROVES
in NEARBY PONDS
High Waters Still Keep Sport
Below Average i'm WingO
and San Antoine
BY FRANK o'DoNNELL

Although the placid waters of the
San Antoine slough and the tidal inlets
around Wingo did not yield excellent
striped bass dividends last Sunday, re-
suits were better than on the corre-
spending day of the preceding week.
and a majority of the anglers who in
dulged in bait singing were of the
opinion that the sport was gradually
improving. Nearly all of the knights
of the split bamboo seem to think that
large schools of the big fish are likely
to appear in the bay sloughs at any
time, and those who are OF this op1n-
ion have no intention of quitting the
game until they have accomplished
something.
At least so fishermen wet their lines
in the sloughs at Wingo last Sunday,
and although every one present did his
best only eight of the many fish that
were hooked up with were landed. Joe
Harding was the high hook for the day.
He landed four, one of which weighed
SO pounds. H. F. Hart succeeded in
bringing two to gaff. weighing 10 and
16 pounds respectively, and Tim Lynch
exhibited a nine FOUNDER as his prize
on returning to the city Emil Ac-
ceret, who has achieved distinction as
a
estly admitted last week that he was
no longer a fisherman and that he
did not intend to announce himself as
such until he had negotiated at least
a few big ones. The gathering at
Wingo included Tim Lynch. Joe Dober,
'Parson" Jackson, Jim and Will Iur-
ner, Terry Evans, Jack Duckell, otto
ThieI, Jim Lynch, Joe Garborina, Billy
Street and Steve Riordan.
Of
Louis Gotthelf of this city. says that
bass fishing Is off temporarily in that
vicinity because of the recent heavy
rains. While writing his letter West
took occasion to pay his respects 10
market fishermen, asserting positively
that they were violating the law pro-
hibiting the stretching of nets across
the entire width of the sloughs. The
net fishermen in the vicinity of Napa.
West stated were not content with
stretching their seines over third OF
the width of the sloughs, as the law
allows. but were stretching them clear
across the small inletS and practically
trapping and killing all of the fish,
Steelhead anglers who fished the
Paper Mill creek near Point reyes
station last Sunday had some fair sport
bur hardly enough to pay them for
their trouble Some good sized young
salmon were taken. but there were not
enough steelhead creeled to make a
limit basket. Among those on the
stream were Joe Meyer. George Went
worth, Joe Pincus, Joe and George Uri-
James Watt George Walker, Billy Ken
nedy. Frank Smith, Midnight Miller
and Harry Baker. George Wentworth
took ) pound salmon on spinner
and also two steelhead, while Watt
landed a couple of the latter. About
10 fish were taken during the day, all
of them being fresh from the ocean
z. F. Christ took six on Saturday
weighing from 1 to IA pounds and
George Uri landed / FOUNDER on the
same day A few fair sized salmon
were taken on Tomales bay with a
spoon.
Charles f. Breidenstein announced
that he found fishing poor in the
Pescadero, San Gregorio and Bean Hol-
low lagoons on his prospecting tour of
those bodies of water last week. The
bar on the Pescadero lagoon was closed
again, Breidenstein said, and the pros
poets for fishing were poor.
Very little was heard from the Rus
sian river during the week and the
lack of news was taken as an indica-
ton that there was nothing doing on
that stream. Local anglers who are
familiar with the river believe the
rains sent the fish above tidewater and
if such is the case there will be no
fishing there until the big run of steel
head comes in