The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-04
SACRAMENTO RIVER MECCA
FOR THOUSANDS OF
ANGLERS
Holiday Thr0ngs Flock Where
Fishing Is Good, Though M any
Scatter Along Coast
By FRANK O'DONNELL

midsummer trout nShlnS eXpeolIlOn Of
fered by the July 4 and weekend hoi-
days and expert rod wielders who had
! been waiting patiently for news Of
good sport at some resort or another
are out in force today. All of the coast
and mountain streams are coming in
for a share of attention, but the re-
sorts on the upper Sacramento are
proving the greatest attraction In
fact it is from this stream alone that
gratifying reports and. incidentally
many nice boxes of fish. are coming TO
hand, and as a result nearly every one
who left the city yesterday gave La
moine. Castella, Sims or some other re-
sort in that region as his destination
The latest report from Castle Rock
| farm was to the effect that II. F. FL
liot of this city had taken SO of the
finest specimens of trout ever landed in
/ that vicinity Tuesday with a black
Palmer orange tailed fly. According
| to all authentic advices from that
region sport never before came up to
I the standard of excellence it has
reached this season. The hotel at
Sims is crowded with enthusiastic
anglers and hostelries at other resorts
! in the immediate vicinity are filing up
rapidly. The gray and brown hackies
with peacock bodies and blue uprights
are proving effective killers, and SPLEEN
did work is also being done with the
improved governor.
| Floyd s. Judah and son joined Eli
OFT on the upper Sacramento yesterday
and Charles H. Kewell left for Sims
Friday. Peter L. Moir of this city de-
cided that the Sacramento was the
only stream TO visit over the holidays
! and started for one of the resorts on
\ the river yesterday.
LARGE TROUT IN TAHOE
Large trout are plentiful in Lake
Tahoe this year and that body of water
1 is drawing large numbers of anglers
away from the city and business
cares. 1t is reported that r. c. Robin
son of this city took silver trout
weighing six and half pounds
from the lake recently DIR. George A.
Wood and wife spent a week on the
lake in the latter part of June and
sent several boxes TO friends in the
city Dr. Wood stated that there was
nothing doing in the small streams in
the vicinity. but any one with the least
pretension TO skill as an angler could
get plenty of fish in the lake.
Doc" Watt of the California Ang
Iers association left for the lodge Of
the San Francisco fly casting club on
the doc" will go through to Lake
Tahoe. f. T. Earle of Los Angeles,
accompanied by ]. w. Atkinson of this
city also left for the lake Friday. A.
b. Finch and Carter p. Pomeroy will
1 be among those who are trying their
! luck on the Truckee today Horace
Sperry was on the Truckee for four
1 70.
fish TO the day 1t was reported that
Sperry fished with fly but the report
was doubted as it was not believed
! that conditions were right for fly fish
ing on the river. Bait fishermen are
doing well on the Truckee and the
| Klamath is still yielding plenty of
fish TO bait singers and spoon ans
leTs.
NO NEWS FROM KLAMATH
There has been no definite news re-
ceived from the klamath regarding
| fly fishing on Shoal creek and hardly
| anything has been heard from the Nc
Cloud The dearth of news from the
latter stream is due to the fact there
| are no accommodations for anglers on
the river d. NJ Sachs, writing from
! Weber lake to the California anglers
association. advised the members 70
] remain away from the lake and also
j 4
of this month. by which date he thinks,
the water will be right for fly fishing.
| Sachs took an eastern brook trout
weighing two and three quarter
pounds from Weber lake last week
and had his catch recorded with the
secretary of the Anglers association
CREEKS AFFORD SPORT
Creeks in San Mateo and Marin
counties still have their devotees
| among anglers who cannot AFFORD eN-
/ tended trips to distant streams.
+ A good days sport may still be had
on Pescadero. San Gregorio. Purissi-
ma and La Honda creeks in San MateO
county and the paper mill and tribu-
tarv streams in Marin county are still
Welding small baskets. Ed Cohen was
on the Paper Mill Sunday and in a pool
formed by the dam about zoo rect
below the hotel at Camp Taylor, big
steelhead rose to his fly. Cohen played
the fish for some time, but lost him.
| Nearly every one around the hotel was
out with rod trying to land this par
tieular fish when Cohen left for home.
marty including ]. L. McCrystle, W.
I M. Thompson, George w. Wise, George
il r Coulter, sydney Allison. Dave Wolfe.
]. Cooper and Louis Hirsch left on
| trip to Alpine Monotti and San Gre
! gorio creeks yesterday. intending TO
| remain over the holidays.
NO BLACK BASS
Black bass fishing seems to be off for
the present but striped bass anglers
are still evincing mucn interest in their
fayorite pastime. About dozen fish
were taken at San Pablo last Sunday,
the largest weighing five pounds. Moth
ling is known of conditions at Wingo,
as no one has tried for bass there for
several weeks George Wentworth, j.
! German. John Boedfeldt. Louis Gott-
helf. Mel Vogel and others of the old
guard are at Greenbrae today Frank
Carroll. W. d. Macarthur and Hugh
Copeland will try for black and striped
bass in the Yolo basin near Rio Vista
today and tomorrow. G. p. Landresse,
who accompanied Macarthur and Car
roll on previous jaunts to Rio Vista
will not indulge in any bass angling for
some time having gone to Honolulu
for six weeks.
The persistency of George NJ Barnes.
the veteran salmon fisherman. was al
tmost rewarded Sunday. Barnes and
Fred King were outside in a launch and
the former got strike. the first for
/ the season, but the rish rid itself of
the hook in about five seconds. Barnes
is offering to bet that he will land a
i salmon within a week or so. and he
is puzzled at the failure of the big fish