The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
IF SECRETLY CONFIDENT OF WINNING INDEPENDENCE DAY BAT TIE
TRYING
FOR BLACK BASS
Anglers Are Reported to Have
Some SoIendid Catches ia
the YOIO Basin Streams
By FRANK o'DoNNELL

By FRANK O'DONNELL
While the attendance of local anglers
on nearby and distance trout streams
was large during the week Just ended
many familiar faces were missed from
the creeks frequented by the week end
ers. A great many sportsmen who had
been in the habit of spending Sunday
on one of the streams within easy ae-
cess of the city decided to give the
trout a rest and have a try at black
bass, the season for which opened on
the first of the MONTH
The Yolo basin was the objective OF
the black bass anglers and the best
catches were made on Prospect slough
in the vicinity of Rio Vista. the fish
being more plentiful than ever in that
stretch of water. according to report
About the best catch reported was
that of a party of four headed by
William Murdock of the Fly Casting
club. Murdock and his companions
landed 90 fish each, all that may be
legally taken in one day, in one and a
half hours fishing. The fish weighed
from about pound to a pound and a
half each and it is said that they came
at the lures a little too fast to suit
some of the fishermen
w D. McArthur Frank Carroll and
w. J. Johnson, all regular visitors to
the Rio Vista region, had some good
sport with both black and striped bass
during the week Macarthur reported
that striped bass were still much in
evidence in the sloughs throughout the
Yolo basin, but large fish were less
plentiful than they were some weeks
ago.
Hugh Copeland and Harry Thompson
went TO Holt. about II miles below
stockton, on a black bass fishing eX-
pedition. They prOspected slough and
irrigation bitches and found evidences
condition, but they had the hard luck
of running into a terrific north wind
that sent the fish to the bottom Of the
streams They intend trying at the
same place again before long-
A large deIepgation from-the CaIifor-
MIA anglers association, headed by DR..
j. Auburn Wibon and Charles F. Breid-
enstein, started Friday for Rio Vista.
and another party. captained by G.. w.
Ellery, left on the same day
Returring trout fishermen reported
the wa clear and the fish plentiful
on the Truckee and upper Sacramento
rivers Many nice boxes were sent in
/ from Truckee and it was reported that
fishing was excellent on that stream.
/ particularly at Boca and in the vicinity
of the Fly Casting clubs lodge.
/ John Filmer recently returned from
Castella on the upper Sacramento,
where he stopped for Is days. During
/ that period he ereeled 24O good sized
trout, an average catch of 10 day
Guests at all of the resorts in the
| Castella region were enjoying splendid
fly fishing during Filmer's stay and
limit baskets were common.
/ Floyd s Judah, who recently had
some fine sport at Castle Crag with
Senator Simms, is on the river again
| today.
News of the doings on the upper Sac
ramento reached Ed Gait at Portland
during the week and he wired Judah
| that he would join him at the Castle
Crag restort today.
Jim MaynardS Dr. McGettigan and
Pete Howard will start for the Big
Meadows country in Plumas county to-
day and William Ellery and Harry
BlatchIey are preparing for a trout
fishing expedition TO the McCloud river.
/ The streams in Marin and San Mateo
counties were whipped by large num-
bers of fishermen last sunday and there
were enough trout taken from the old
/ Paper Mill creek in Marin county and
I from the Pescadero, Purissima, San
/ Gregorio. San Lorenzo and 9th -
streams to the south of the city
warrant the assumption that the creeks
and rivers easily reached by city dwell
ers would remain popular for some
time.
! George Wentworth, Ed COhn. Cot
/ tager'' Christ and several others Of
/ the "oId guard were at Point Reyes
/ and the usual delegation whipped the
Paper Mill around Jules. Garcia and To-
colOma-
/ The Uri brothers. Frank Smith and
Bert Dewar were at Point San Pedro
/ Turing stee1head from a small creek
1 that is used as an irrigation ditch.
I Jim Lynch. L. Harris. Dave Wharton,
J. W. Frazier. George Hall, William
and ]. Fletcher. Otto Gruenzal. T. j.
Fauss. were among the successful fish
! ermen on the San MateO streams.
| The big Quinnat salmon continue 10
puzzle local deep sea fishermen These
| fish should be furnishing good sport
/ for light tackle experts outside the
heads, but there has been no sign of
I a run. although the sardines. which the
big ones generally follow. have been
| in evidence for some time.
Good Fishing Prospect