The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
TROUT FISHING IS
NOW At ITS BEST
Grand Old TrHckee, klamath and
Upper Sacramento Lure
City SpOrtSmeH
By FRANK o'DoNNELL

By FRANK O'DONNELL
Fishing on California's greatest trout
streams is about it's best Just now.
and fishermen who delight in Turing
the game rainbow from its native ele-
ment with natural and artificial flies
are having the time of their fly cast
ing lives. The grand OLD Truckee. the
upper Sacramento. the famous Klamath
river and its sdually famous tributary.
Shovel creek, and all we'll patrOnized by
skillfUl manipulatOrs OF the rod and
reel. and none but mediocre and mex
perienced fishermen fail to find the
sport of angling an enjoyable and
profitable pastime on any of these
streams.
Boxes of beautiful trout are coming
to the city from the klamath right
along, while the upper Sacramento and
Truckee rivers are visited by scores of
city anglers every week. At Sims Cas-
tella, Castle Crag and other resorts on
the upper Sacramento the hotels are
crowded and the sport has attained
such degree of excellence that limit
catches are quite common with IT,
guests.
Edward F. Cahiu. "The Candid
Friend after a delightful sojOurn OF
H.
week creeling beautiful specimens of
rainbow at Sims, where limit strings
were negotiated regularly. Roscoe
HavenS timed his annual pilgrimage to
Sims so as to be on the ground when
fishing opened. and among others who
were there for prolonged stay were
Walter Matthews. George Reynolds of
Alameda, Mr.. and Mrs. John GlasscOck
and John GlasscOck Jr. HavenS. Mat
thews. Reynolds and GlasscOck junior
got big baskets every day. F. Fl. Reed
returned from Castella few days ago
after several days of excellent sport.
and Ed Gait and T. S. Judah were at
the same place last Sunday. Judah
creeled So nice ones with the royal gov
ernOr fly and Gait accounted for a near
limit catch.
A somewhat larger crowd of fisher
men than usual for the early part of
the season has been enjoying excellent
fishing at Klamath hot springs. Rufus
NJ. Steele. who goes to the Klamath
for prolonged stay annually. returned
to the city early last week after a
most enjoyable outing. He was fully
as enthusiastic over the prospect for
a continuance of excellent sport as he
was over the success of his trip to the
river.
LIMIT CATCHES RULE
The salmon flies and caddis flies ap-
tomary and the season opened with
limit baskets from the start" said
Steele. AT first the klamath river
provided the best fishing, and then
when the big rainbOws began to run
up Shovel creek in schools that famous
stream took precedence over the river.
klamath river tumbles along too swift
~ to be much of fly stream, but in
the crystal waters of beautiful Shovel
creek the fly fishing has at times been
ideal. often the % pounds OF trout,
which constitutes the weight limit for
one days fishing under the law, has
been taken before noon. The pools Of
Shovel creek have witnessed some great
fights. The coachman and black Snau
have proved the best Killers among the
artificial flies. At times the small
spoon brings rich reward.
The rainbow trout taken from the
klamath and Shovel creek average
much larger than the TainbOws taken
at any other point in California.
/ four or five FOUNDER brings TO its cap
| tor only the natural eXultatiOn st the
| capture They are too common 10 cal
| for medals A trout under one pound
is unusual in the river Most of the
| fish run between one and three pounds
| and for the most part they are good
/ fighters.
| "The upper waters of shovel creek.
/ above the gorge. are yielding perfect
L
| making the horseback trip to the upper
waters from Klamath hot springs sell
dom return with less than the full legal
! limit for all hands Coachman, gnat
and hackle are the best flies
AL Cumming. who always gpes TO the
klamath for the opening of the season,
remained at the springs for SIX weeks
/ this year. returning recently
Among fishermen who have been get
| ting the limit at Klamath hot springs
I
Mcpherson. Alex Mcpherson, Chester
B. Ellis. Dr. Carson Ellis, J. Mayne Bal
| timore David Heartfelt, Harold Hear
field, Dr. A. f. Sykes, o. H. Klumpp.
Thomas Goodwin. Otto II. Curtaz. VIII
| liam Singer. Frank Mills, Edward
Miles. w. Shetterley. Doctor Haber.
Sam Haber, Charles Ross and Or. Z. r
| Ollie.
| GOOD SPORT ON TRUCkEE
Ed Everett and Jack HarrOn have
I been at the Fly Casting clubs lodga
/ on the Truckee for a week or more and
report the going good. Several mem
/ berS and guests of the club left foS<
the lodge last night. Among the party
were w d. Mansfield. Mr.. and Mrs. z.
w Bogart Mr.. and Mrs. F. V. Bell
and James Watt. Dr. Henry Abrahms
and Ernest Boucher left for Boca yes
| terday j. B. Hauer and three friends,
with Senator J. G.. Simms and Floyd s.
/ Judah are whipping the river between
Boca and Union Mills today.
Jim Thomson writes a friend In the
| city that he is getting plenty of fish
/ on the Kern river. w. z. Dennison is
/ at Fallen Leaf lake. and c. SUtrO is
fishing on Lake Tahoe. w. T. Muir
/ dock is on Weber lake and he reports
! that fly fishing on that body Of water
/ is the best experienced in about eight
years. On Thursday he took Is trout
weighing about one pound each in two
1 hours of fishing.
4 Nearby streams were well patronized
last. Sunday, about the best results be-
| ing obtained on the PuriSsima, Pes
cadero and San GregoriO creeks in San
Mateo county Ralph Ohe. Milton
! Frankenberg and Louis GOtthelf re-
Gently took limit strings from Lake
Iagunitas in Marin county
i black bass fishermen had varying
luck on Prospect and Cache sloughs
last week, the wind interfering with
/ the sport at times. Drs. J. ~ Whom
! Henry La Coste and Simon were on
Prospect slough with Charles f. Breid-
/ enstein last Sunday They took lots Of
/ fish weighing from one and half to