Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-22

~ cry party which has so far re-
turned bringing one or more bucks.
Many have been shot In the Santa Mon
lea hills, and in the San Gabriel canyon
and its branches, and In the vicinity OF
Old Badly. Several parties have gone
back into the pine flats beyond Mount
Wilson, while others have found the
region around Crystal lake and Mount
Islip to be excellent hunting grounds.
The surf fishing at Hermosa Beach
was especially good yesterday morning
several parties catching big strings
Although this form of sport has been
hitherto bad or Indifferent at Hermosa
Beach, excellent fishing is looked for
during the remainder of the week.
r. X. Glasscock killed a flVe-point
buck Sunday within few miles OF
Chatsworth ranch. Classcock reports
deer plentiful in the hills around the
San Fernando valley.
Although doves are still plentiful
within a few hours ride of Los Ange-
les, it is deplorable fact that tneir @
numbers are steadily decreasing. rms
may be largely attributed to an IN
creased amount of hunters, better Ia
cilities for reaching the hunting
grounds, long open seasons and IN
few localities inefficient game WardehS'
1t is significant fact that the pag
limit has been decreased from twenty
five birds to twenty birds. The Game
and Fish Protective association of Los
Angeles county and the Audubon socl-
ety deserve great credit for the actlVe
steps which they have taken to pre-
serve our wild game. The decrease III
the numbers of wild game birds Is es-
pecially noticeable in the vicinity OF
Los Angeles, and Is true of every varl-
etv breeding In Southern California.
Although the present game laws are
considered as being suthclently slTlhs
ent, it is a recognized fact that they
the poorly enforced
A larges fishing and hunting party
win leave today on the yacht Gertrude
for santa Cruz island. Members of the
party will endeaVor to bag several Wlld
goats, which are reported as Delhg hu
merous on the island at the present
time.
A. M. Morse has received what ne
considers the finest nine-ounce ROD ever
exhibited on the Pacific coast. The rod
was made by Fred Divine at Utlca' ~
Y, is of spiral split bamboo and Is the
first salt water rod ever cohstructeu Ny
the Divine company.
Jesse Sewer killed a large buck few
miles above Monrovia in the vicinity
of Deer park.
Proprietor Dawson of Cold Brook
camp has opened a new seVen-mllr
trail to Bear canyon. Nearly every
party returning from Bear canyon mas
secured the limit of trout,
Will Bacon of Duarte recently killed
a five-point buck near Crystal lake, a
few miles above Cold Brook camp.
Arthur Savage and c. c. Spinks of
Duarte and Thomas Neville of Monro-
via have returned from days dove
shooting near San Bernardino. Every
member of the party secured the limit
Otto zahn who has been for some
time prominently identified with the
California Audubon society, will visit
Balboa Beach this week In the hope of
saving the nests of the few least terms
which still breed on the Pacific coast
II has been reported that the nests OF
the tern colony at Balboa are pelhs
molested, and every effort Will De made
to bring the offenders to justice. The
small colony now at Balboa is but the
remnant of the thousands OF terms
which once inhabited the Pacific coast
Ed Mitchell and Fred jerks, who left
Sunday morning to shoot deer in the
Santa Monica hills, bagged their first
buck six miles north of Point sDume
sunday evening. The animal was an
especially fine one and weighed 100
pounds The party killed another deer
Monday.
Frank Cooper bagged a large buck In
the pine fats back of Wilson's peak
early In the week.
L. NJ. Lidster of Los Angeles left yes
terday morning for the San Fernando
valley on a deer and dove shooting ex-
pedition.
les Henry will leave Los Angeles
Friday to shoot doves in the vicinity
of Covina.
T., Herzog, secretary of the Game
and Fish Protective association OF Los
Angeles county. has received supply
of books containing the names or the
members and the rules and regulations
of the association, in addition to valu-
able points on hunting and fishing. The
hooks NAV be had, free of charge, at
Tufts-Lyon Arms company and w. H.
Hoegee company.