The San Francisco call., 1909-06-13
ANGLERS CONTENT
WITH BAGS OF
FAIR SIZE
Thus Far the Sport Has Been
{ Rather Poor in the
Best Streams
Rx FRANK O,DONNELL

BY FRANK O'DONNELL
While trout fishing is not considered
good or even fair from the viewpoint
of the scientific fly caster the more en-
thusiastic members Of the local army
of anglers continue to find pleasure and
some sport on the creeks easily reached
from the city. The number leaving
town for weekend or midweek jaunts.
however. has dwindIed to a mere hand
full and about the only fishermen to be
found on the Paper MIL Olema, Puris-
sima. San Gregorio and other nearby
streams are the members of the old
guard. who are content with partly
filed baskets of small FISH, Most Of
the fly fishermen have had at least one
try at the game since the season opened
and they are now waiting for the time
when conditions viii improve and the
trout will rise more readily 70 the
lures.
Plenty of fish are being taken from
the Klamath and Truckee rivers with
bait and spoons are sometimes uset
successfully. but these streams are re-
ceiving hardly any attention irom
anglers who consider angling for trout
with any lure other than flies aS mcF'
ehilds play. The water is stlH mig.
and milky on the Iruckee because @.
the snow melting IN the mountains. dii't
the same is true Of the klamath. on
seqUently there are but few iocdL
spOrtsmen leaving for extended visits
TO those streams.
Ed Cohen and w Fischer We're on
Olema and Pine GUlch creeks last sun
day and both managed 90 get TAR pas
Cohen landed % and Fischer took %
Two OF FischerS fish measured 10
inches and the balance ranged from six
to eight inches. Emil AcCeret. jim
Lynch and Jim Turner fshed the Paper
Mill from Camp Taylor to TOcalOma
and all three got few fish. their joint
catch numbering % fair sized steel
head. Another party dshed the creek
from the wagon bridge near Point
Reyes station to the White House
pool and accounted for Il, all Of which
We're taken with hy and seemed to oe
fresh run trout
E. w Currier. the local artist is at
Camp Agassiz on Glen Alpine creek I'm
I the Sierras enjoying good sport. cur
rter dropped a postal to a friend in tire
city few days ago and stated that be
found fishing good and that he had
I Just caught a three pound trout with -
I No Wilson spoon. g. T. Young Left
I Friday for a two days trip to the san
Lorenzo, Bean and Zayante creeks. and
/ jim Maynard, Nat BOas and Pete How
ard were preparing to start for Fuli
/ river yesterday The Cri family Oc
/ fishermen is represented on the Gual-
ala river by George Cri. who. with
/ Bert Preace, is spending a three weeks
vacation in camp on that stream about
/ 40 miles from CazaderO.
I ". G.. Murdoch recently met with n
piece OF hard luck at the lodge of the
\ san Francisco fly casting club ON the
/ Truckee. Murdoch was crossing the
/ bridge from the lodge with porter
/ trailing behind carrying his suit case.
/ When they reached the middle OF Tire
/ bridge the porter lost his grip on the
SUIT case and u fell IN the swift rum
ming waters of the river and disap-
peared immediately. As the case CON
! tanned 80 gross OF imported English
Z trout m1 1ar4
and three or four much priced Ken
tucky reels. Murdoch was incOnSOIabIe.
/ He came to the city Thursday to re-
plenish his outfit and returned to the
/ lodge on the same day. He stated that
/ the water in the river was rcccdine-
rapidly and had hopes that fishing
1 with fly would be resumed much sooner
than the club members seemed TO eN-
pect.
I. W. Brotherton. formerly secre-
/ tary OF the San Francisco fly casting
! club and now of New York recently
won a fly casting contest held by the
/ English club of the eastern metropolis
\ Brotherton made a cast OF 49, feet and
4 the next highest east was 10. Tt
seems that BrOthertOn is teaching the
easterners something about the game
Several parties were out after black
/ bass recently and few FISH We're taken.
1 w ID. Macarthur and Frank Carroll ac-
counted for some large fish on the Sac
/ ramentO river near COurtland. but
/ they found the water too high and the
/ fish down too deep in that vicinity g.
r. Landresse and Charles III. EeweI
/ will try for black and striped bass at
the same place next week. Nat BOas
Ned Bosqui and John Coleman took n
few black bass at the Point Reyes club
with minnOw last Sunday.
Striped bass anglers are still pros
pecting around the bay but very few
catches have been reported. j. G. Bliss
tried at Schultz slough and. although
the water was fairly clear he did not
get strike. Charles Cate took two
fish, weighing nine pounds each. az
ROdeO. after several hours of trying.
Al Schmitt reports that striped bass are
appearing in the Russian river but he
states the bar is hardly opened wide
enough to allow the fish to ascend the
stream except at high tide. He man
aged to land three. Weighing about "a
pounds each. however.
Great preparations are being made
/ by deep sea fishermen for the salmon
run to commence outside and when
these fish put in an appearance there
Will be a large number out to take a
1 try at the big ones.