The San Francisco call., 1909-09-26
Anglers Report
That Steelhead
Are Plentiful
AdviceS From Eel and klamath
Rivers Say That Sport
There Is Excellent
By FRANK o,DoNNELL

Reports from the Eel and Klamath
rivers telling of splendid fishing are
exciting great interest among fishermen
whose speciality is fishing for steel
head trout. Recent advices from these
streams say that the sport is all that
could be wished. The run of half
Founders is on in the Eel and the
steelhead are following the big salmon
up the klamath, to the delight of the
rodsters sojourning on that stream
keg of half Founders was re-
ceived from the Eel river last week by
Charles Breidenstein. The fish were
sent in by James 5. Turner. the local
striped bass enthusiast. who writes
that fly fishing is excellent on the Eel
and that anglers are taking from 80
to 90 of the game small fry every day
and occasionally big ones. some OF
which run up to 10 pounds in weight.
Anglers are doing well at several
points on the stream, but the Gregg.
Weymouth and Robinson pools. Turner
states. are yielding the best sport
Last Thursday M. Allard of Eureka
took 80 small fish and one five FOUNDER
with artificial flies. a good catch, but
not an unusual one, according to Tur-
ner A. L. Norris and j. Dougal, both
local men, are with Turner.
w. ID. Macarthur. Frank Carroll and
Floyd 3 Judah were members OF the
local angling fraternity who visited
the klamath recently.
w. ID. Macarthur and Alfred Rem.
icke. af,sr leaving the klamath, wet
their lines in Lake Tahoe and made a
joint catch OF FIVE cutthroat trout.
each.
c. H. KewelI. Jer Hurd. W. j. Orear.
n nrnrr Frr10 AzI. a
on the Rogue river the latter part OF
last week and took four fish between
thsT them: the largest being 8 four and a
was on the Rogue with Alexander
Hamilton recently. managed to land
an eight and half pound steelhead
with fly. and a salmon weighing l41s
pounds was taken with similar lure
by George Putnam while Kewell and
his party were on the river.
The San Antonio slough was visited
by party of striped bass fishermen
on Sunday The party included Chris
Johnson. Emil Acceret. Hugh Draper.
Hillegas. A few fish were taken. the
largest weighing IL pounds.
At Wingo, on the other side of the
salt marsh. there were about 25 clam
singers trying for bass. but they had
very poor luck. Jim Lynch took three
that were just about large enough 70
please him and be threw them back.
Later in the week better luck was ex-
gerieneed on the San Antoine. On
brought a So pound bass to gan the
largest taken thus far for the season.
and he also took one 19 and one II
pound fish. Billy Kittle tried his luc X
twice subsequent to sunday and took a /
number of fish weighing from to 10.
pounds.
The Tiburon lagoon was visited by
a number OF regulars during the
week. but they did not meet with much
success Alex Kaiser of this city has
been regular visitor to the lagoon for
some time and he has taken IL. TO-
and pound fish with live bait within
the last few weeks. Some fair catches
near the Selby smelling plant. Frank
Hittell. Louis DaverhOsen and r.
Banker being among those who ac-
counted for some nice baskets during
the meek.
Doctors Simon. La Coste and wibon
and Charles Breidenstein left on Friday
for Saturday and SUNDAY visit TO the
gaas and Theodore Rothehild are about
to leave for a two weeks fishing trip
to the Qua lala. Garcia and Big rivers.
and from all accounts they should have
some good sport with steelhead in those
streams.
Fishing for black bass will probably
be popular again as it is reported that
the sport has shown wonderful i'm
provement in Prospect slough out from
Rio Vista This slough was fished
early in the season with indifferent
success by Hugh Copeland W. d. Me
Arthur, c. III. Kewell and others.
The fish planting committee Of the
California Anglers association planted
100000 trout fry in nearby streams
The fry came from the Sisson hatch
cry and were distributed as follows
For Purissima creek. 10000 eastern
brook and 10000 rainbows: Sonoma
creek. 10000 steelhead: Paper Mill
creek 10000 steelhead. Olema creek
90. oe0: Ward and Austin creeks. so 600.
The planting was under the direction
of George A. Wentworth. L. James
Watt. a l. Miller. Charles Breidea-
stein, Joe Springer and Joe Meyer.