The San Francisco call., 1909-12-05
ANGLERS find BIG
FISH HARD TO LAND
Striped Bass and SIeeIhead Are
Lying Low in SIOHghS
About the Bay
By FRANK o'DoNNELL


II patience ever ceases 10 be a virtue
with local striped bass and steelhead
anglers there VIII surely be a falling
On in the sunday attendance of anglers
al Wingo and the San Antoine slough
AS yet there is nothing TO indicate thai
1heir patience has been tried TO The
cutting point. for despite an unsuc-
cessfuI try for the denizens of the
sioughs and creek last Sunday they
arc out in force again today.
There were abosIt IS leaders of the
angling fraternity offering clam bait
and spoon lures to striped bass on the
sfoughs around Wingo last Sunday, but
lhere was nothing taken in the way OF
big fish although on the preceding day
prank Marcus landed two weighing 81
and 20 pounds respectively. There were
almost rs many reasons advanced for
Tho absence of the fish as there were
fishermen present but after leaders
Cherries r. Breidenstein. Bill Street and
Louis Gotthelf emerged from confer
ence id was learned that the scarcity
Of bass was due in some measure 10
the abnormal tidal conditions and the
bia runs in and out on the turns OF
The tide.
a-liH 1LN kN0Il- joe ltO0tis ATtOl
Roberts VIII Turner, Frank Hittell
Hugh Draper end wife and Ed Con-
molly were in the party and even Al
Wilson vino is conceded to be a marvel
II striped bass angling. was among the
unsuccessful
on the san Antoine slough results
were not much better. A party COM
prisin- chris Johnson Jack Bliss.
Charles Hollywood. Howard Vernon,
Dave Wallace and FIVE others account
cd for cnlH TWO medium sized fish on
sunday. while on Saturday Billy Kit
tie who WAS q visitor at Professor Nc
Fari1nds az. managed TO haul in a
Is pounder. Professor Mcfarland had
lhe dubious pleasure Of hooking up
with big strong one and losing il.
There was a big turnout of steelhead
fishermen on the Paper Mill creek in
Marin county sunday George Went
worth headed d delegation of members
of The California anglers association
that included Harry Baker. George and
Joe Uri James Watt. Bill Kennedy,
john Bordefeldt. Doctor Abrahm, Bert
Dewar. Prank Smith and Sam Wells.
About S5 in all trudged from Point
Reyes station TO the White House
pool. but very few Of them returned
with anything worth Dragging about.
Prank Smith landed Z pound fresh
ran steeIhead. Bert Dewar got a )
pound salmon and Doc" Watt creeled
a holdover steelhead that weighed
about pounds.
The Pesca6ero lagoon in San Mateo
county may become the mecca for steel
head fishermen after this week. E. T.
Charlton. traffic manag ger of the Ocean
Shore railroad. sent a gang Of. labor
ers 10 Pescadero last week to open the
bar al the lagoon. Charlton announced
that it was his intention to cater to
fishermen and hunters in the future
and to do ali in his power to improve
fishing and hunting conditions along
the lire Of the road
According TO the latest advices from
the Russian river the water in that
stream is still high and muddy and it
is impossible 10 tell whether the big
steelhead have commenced TO run up
from the ocean or not It is probable
that the fish have started in as they
were plentiful at the mouth of the
stream before the bar was opened. and
for this reason news from Duncans
Mills is anXiously awaited.