The San Francisco call., 1910-04-10
TOO MUCH WATER
FOR THE ANGLERS
Good Sport Is Looked For i'm the
Near Future When Streams
ReCede
By FRANK O'DONNELL

The first week of the trout fishing
season closed with conditions unsat-
isfactory, but slowly improving on
nearby coast streams, the water in
most of the creeks having failed to
recede sufficiently to make casting
with spoon and fly profitable pastime.
Plenty of trout were taken from Marin
and its continents being the most popu-
lar, but the most effective work was
done with bait. There were some signs
of natural insect life on the creeks a
few days ago, however, and it was gem
orally believed that fishing with spoon
and artificial flies would be in full
swing shortly.
Charley Breidenstein found that the
fly was not altogether useless on the
Paper Mill the other day, when he
creeled a few steelhead from the
White House" pool that rose to
imitation insects. Nearly all of the
anglers on this and adjacent creeks
used roe or angle worms in their at
| tempts to connect with the fish. A
handful of wise fishermen from this
city and Oakland tried the Garcia
river in Mendocino county during the
week and found the going excellent.
Louis Geischen was at Point Arena
on opening day and he sent word to
several friends to come up and take ad-
vantage of big spring run. In an
swer to his summons Doctor Simmons,
Charles Berger, George A. Reynolds
and Teddy Eisfeldt left for the point
on Saturday and remained there for
four days. fishing the Garcia and
smaller streams. The river was full of
spent fish, which, Gieschen said, he
had in mind when he sent word of a
spring run"
The party found fresh fish plentiful
enough to furnish fine sport, however,
and every one of the quintet got limit
strings of to 10 inch trout every day.
What few hold over trout they hooked
up with were thrown back into the
river. The fresh fish were rising read
lily to the fly and the visitors did not
find 1t necessary to use any other kind
of lure.
Striped bass fishermen had an inning
in the Yolo basin near Rio Vista re-
Gently and they are still getting action
according to report.
Oscar Ashby and Doctor Horste re-
turned to the city Thursday after a
stay of one week on the Garcia They
accounted for many full baskets of
s to 10 inch prizes, using the royal
coachman fly and red tagged brown
hackle as killers. Albert Frank was
on the Garcia. Moe and Ike Uri tried
the lagoon behind Point Bonita on
Sunday with fair success, coming home
with quite few specimens of steel
head. They told of meeting with a lone
fisherman who showed them a trout
weighing one and one-half pounds, that
was taken from the headwaters of the
lagoon.
Members of the Salmon Creek club
visited their preserve on the stream
of that name in Marin county. Among
the members out were Ned Bosqui,
Will Golcher, George Uhl, John Cole
man, Captain" Jack Lemmer. Joe Har-
Ian and Phil Bekeart. They found
steelhead plentiful enough. but mostly
small. A fellow fisherman told Louis
Weinmann of this city of an unusual
catch of steelhead that was made near
Hayward in a creek that empties into
San Leandro bay. The fish were appa-
rently going up stream from the bay
and their progress was checked by a
dam that had been built in connection
with some construction work.
\ The fish collected in a pool near the