The San Francisco call., 1909-09-05
Anglers Find
Salmon Scarce
Outside Heads
N arked Falling Off i'm Number
of Fish Taken During
the Week
BY FRANK o'DoNNELL

King salmon continued to attract
local anglers TO the deep water outside
the heads last week but the big fish
did not furnish the Waltonians with
the splendid sport that was expert
enced during the six days preceding
last Sunday. In fact, salmon suddenly
became scarce outside and while many
theories involving tidal and weather
conditions were advanced TO explain the
sudden scarcity. 1t was the consensus
of opinion among posted anglers that
the schools had entered the harbor and
commenced ascending the river to the
spawning grounds. These opinions
were partly verified by reports Of
catches in the CarqGinez straits and in
the Sacramento river, but anglers con-
OF them met with some success.
A formidable feet of pleasure craft
numbering moro than so boats. carried
fishing parties through the Golden gate
last Sunday and the catches, while
smaller than the fishermen expected
were large enough as rule to pay for
the trouble and expense of the outing
| A party headed by DR.. j. Auburn Wjbon
brought in Is. one of which weighed Al
and another SO pounds. Jack Karney,
John Ducai, Jim and Will Turner ac-
counted for a joint catch of five, and a
boat manned by Fred Keweil and two
| friends returned with three, one for
each fisherman.
Charles II. Kewell, Emil Acceret and
Eddie Conlin landed four big ones,
while only five were taken by a party
OF I5 chaperoned by Chris Johnson.
Parties in the Campbell, Christensen
and Jensen launches gafred nine. six
and three, respectively, while Nelson
and Johnson failed to equal their past
| boats bringing In only three salmon
| each. Bert Spring. Ed Schultz and
Pete AcRae were the guests of Al Will
son, the trio landing FIVE good sized
heh, every one of which put~up a stiff
fight before coming to gaff..
Several nsh were taken inside the
harbor during the week, the largest
being As FOUNDER that was landed
about 100 yards out from the Tiburon
ferry. slip by C. n Bouton Charles
Witt hooked and landed % pound
salmon while fishing the bottom for
| rock cod OF Beivedere point and a few
were hooked IN Carquinex straits by
Frank Smith. Charles Gotthelf. Billy
Street and Bill Leavitt last Sunday
George Barnes was outside THURSDAY.
and while he found fishing poor he re-
turned In an optimistic mood. Barnes
said that he had learned from an au-
thorftative source that big sardines and
| anchovies were in abundance in Half
moon bay, where they were beinr
chased about by a school of whales. II
these FISH work UP the coast they will
probably be followed by another big
run of salmon. according to Barnes.
who bases his opinion on knowledge
gained by long experience. A heavy run
of salmon is reported from Tomales
bay and anglers are. expecting to hear
of their appearance In the white
House" pool on Paper Mill creek at any
time The FISH have ascended the creek
as far as the pool several times within
the last few years and on each occa sion
rod wfeiders came in for some royal
sport.
The Tiburon lagoon was found good
Tor striped bass during the week
There were about loo spoon and bait
| singers on the lagoon Sunday. and
among those who got some fish were
| Teddy Eisfeldt Joe Springer pin
Eaton, Paul Shattuck. ]. II. Taylor and
E. Schuriock. Twenty fishermen tried
| for bass at Greenbrae on the same
day, but they met with Indifferent sue
cess, only seven hsh being taken dur
| ing the day.
] The Truckee river continued to ar
tract ny casting experts and reports
received from that stream Indicated
| that the sport was showing some i'm
provement over the preceding week.
| On days when the gates on the dam
at Lake Tahoe were closed the water
| In the river was low and some nice
| baskets OF large fsh were taken. the
Professor ny being the most effective
killer. Calvin S and Mrs. Grandi of this
! city returned early In the week from
| the Truckee. They nshed Lake Tahoe.
the Truckee and Five lakes The trout
were not rising very well TO the fiy at
+, Five lakes, but Grandi stated that
lsport was excellent in the small
| streams tributary to the big river. He
whipped Bear and Souaw creeks with
| success. getting many nice baskets
of trout ranging from s to 10 inches In
/ length and on one day he cree1ed a
/ limit catch that included nearly q
dozen Ia inch rainbow.
/ Several local anglers left for Boca.
on the Truckee, during the week.
among them being F. j. Bergen. DR. e
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