The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-15
Steelhead In
Highest Favor
With Anglers
Gamy Fish Begin Annual Ascent
of Streams and ROdH7en
Are in Pursuit
By FRANK o'DONNELL

Steelhead have begun ascending
some coast streams from tidewater,
and the rainbow and brook trout are
no longer monopolizing the attention
of fly casting anglers as result
Late advices from weymouth on
the Eel river say that the steelhead
are ascending that stream IN large
numbers and several nice catches nave
already been made
I'D to last Friday the veteran John
Pollard had taken % fish in the vlcln-
ity of the Weymouth place, mostly
with spinner, though he took several
during the week with flies. The adj
vices also state that the half pound
ers." for which the river is noted. are
as numerous as ever, and quite Few
fish weighing five and six pounds are
being creeled F. Hansman of this
city found steelhead fishing splendid
near Cummings in MendoeinO county
One day last week Hansman creeleu
40 measuring from to inches IN
three hours.
Some young salmon have been taken
from the brackish waters OF san
Gregorio creek recently. which leads
anglers to believe that there viii be
some good fishing further up the creek
soon. Ralph Friedman will leave for
this stream today or TOMORROW IN the
capacity of pathfinder fOrt members
of the California anglers association
Recent advices from the resorts ON
the upper sacramento lacked the en-
thusiasm which colored the reports
previously received from that region.
Some fish are being taken at Lamolne,
Castle Crag and Sims. and fishing Will
probably be fair at least until the
salmon begin to ascend the stream 10
spawn. visitors to the Truckee hau
varying luck. A. =. Finch, mem per
of the Fly Casting club, whipped the
river in, the vicinity of the lodge near
Boca one day and had only nine Iair
sized fish TO show for his Efforts
shovel creek, the famous tributary
of the klamath river. continues 70
furnish splendid sport TO the fly cast
ing fraternity and. in fact the Whole
Klamath country is still popular with
anglers There are several San Fran
ciscans at Klamath Hot springs, and
Klamath Fails is attracting a great
many. Collector of the Port F. :
Stratton returned from an outing IN
the Klamath lake country few days
ago. With StrattOn were j. W. Park
hurst of this city. Rev Charles +.
Brown of Oakland. f. H. Page OF oak
land. and w N Wilson of klamath
Falls. The party spent most of the
time at Klamath creek. about 10 miles
from Stra tton's place. and all or theIp
caught plenty of fish. An eight ami
One-half pound rainbow and a seven
FOUNDER figured in the catches made
bv Doctor Brown who was apparently
the best angler in the party.
The Paper Mill creek In Marin
county was visited by Midnight Mil
Ter and A. schmidt last sunday Botn
of these anglers creeled u steellead
at the white House" pooh the nsh
measuring and 8 inches. On the
same day a seven pound steelhead was
taken in the Paper Mil. and one
weighing about the same was landed
on O1ema creek but both were spent
and useless according to local anglers
who saw them
The san Antonio slough was found
good for striped bass during the week
by several local fishermen and 1t was
the consensus of opinion that the fish
would soon be plentiful in the slOughs
on the Marin shore. AL Wilson landed
a 10 FOUNDER with spoon Wednesday
on the San Antonio. and Captain Nc
FarIand accounted for one weighing
II pounds Billy Kittle landed four.
two of which scaled Il pounds. and
Frank Marcus got one fair sized fish.
Attracted by the success OF these
fishermen Emil Acceret, Tim Lynch
Bert Spring. Otto Thiele, Howard Yer
non, and several others viii visit the
slough today.
some bass were also taken IN the
lagoon behind TiburOn. on Thursday
DOC" James Watt landed four
FOUNDER, and two were taken by
Charles SchOfield. W. r. Eaton and
Louis Gotthelf were at Schultz slough
near Petaluma Sunday and landed two
bass one of which was under size.
1t was reported that three salmon
were taken with hook and line of the
entrance to the bay early in the week
but the report could not be verified.
George Barnes was out Wednesday. as
usual and the best he got was a
strike. RockcOd are running well
around the buoys outside.