The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
FISHING is POOR
IN COUNTIES
NEAR BY
Good Reports From Klamath,
but Water Is High in
the Truckee

Events during the last week have
/ not been such as to cause the great
majority of local anglers to enthuse
] over the prospects for angling in the
counties around the bay, for conditions
governing steelhead and rainbow trout
| fishing have not been conducive to
cheerfulness.
Good sport is to be had in distant
are not yielding the prizes that ang-
lers seek
Comparatively few fish were taken
| from coast streams easily reached from
! the city last week, although the Paper
Mill creek was whipped assiduously
last Sunday and on several days since.
Despite the reports of poor sport 1t is
safe to state that the early trains will
carry at least few anglers to points
on the stream between Camp Taylor
and the White House pool today.
AS for the distant streams sport is
good only in spots. with the klamath
river easily leading thus far for the
season. Al Cumming is still on the
river and continues to send glowing re-
ports OF conditions there, while H. j.
Copeland. w f. Hillegass and +. H.
Carroll have been enjoying excellent
sport on the same stream for nearly
w. r. Eaton of the California Anglers
association Copeland reports taking a
trout weighing 4 q pounds and asks
that the catch be recorded. Copeland's
catch is the first recorded since the
association decided to award trophies
for the largest catches made during a
season.
on the Truckee trout are plentiful
and in excellent condition, but the
water remains high and fly fishing is
still out of the question. j. I'll. Wilkin-
son. Henry Alters and G. M: Mitchell.
all of this city, spent week at Boca
on the river and they report that hun
dreds OF fish are being taken with bait
between Iceland and ProsSer creek.
in the vicinity of Boca, where there
are satisfactory and reasonable accom-
modations for sportsm me-,
Teddy .Eisfeldt of the San Francisco
custom house spent several days at
Yorkville in Mendocino county and
fished Rancheria and Anderson creeks
and the upper reaches of the Garcia
river. Eisfeldt reports these streams
alive with small steelhead. but found
few that were large enough to be
legally retained. Joe Pincus, George
Wentworth and w Jennings are fish
ing the creek in Shirt Tail canyon in
Placer county. Pincus states in a letter
TO the Anglers association that the fish
are not only plentiful up there but the
finest he ever saw, being beautifully
spotted and game fighters. Their home.
Pincus saws is in swift running, clear
water. the stream having a greater
fan than the Truckee, with deep holes
only 20 or 80 rect apart. one uay RIM
Gus. Wentworth and Jennings took
limit baskets with fly and spinner the
fish ranging from to II inches in
length.
Mill creek last Sunday were Jim Lynch,
Jim Turner, Joe Dober, George Tom
gate and NJ. Evans. They fished from
Camp Taylor to Garcia, Turner getting
Is fair sized steelhead, while Tongate
A large delegation Of striped bass
fishermen fshed at Greenbrae near
san Quentin point last Sunday. The
gafhering included Charles Urfer, Bert
Spring. Joe Uri, w. r. Eaton, III. B..
Goslinger Charles Breidenstein and
Tobn Rodefeldt Urfer took bass,
one weighing 4 and the other Z pounds,
his fish constituting the party's catch
for the day, none of the Others getting
as much as a strike. Mel Vogel took
day. his being the best catch reported
in some time.