Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-15
DEER AND DOVE
SEASON IS OPEN
Four-Legged and Winged Phan-
toms Attract Large Num-
bers to Hill and Dale
BUCKS REPORTED PLENTIFUL
SportSmen Carry Combination
Utensils for Tryout in Trout
Fishing in Mountains
BUCKS REPORTED PLENTIFUL

July Is, looked forward to by every
/ nimrod in the state and prepared for
with every device the gunmakers can
invent, has arrived. Doves and deer
will be the objects of search for the
! sport-loving multitudes, and parties OF
campers have been leaving Los An
geles daily, bound for the mountain
home of the deer and the gathering
points of the doves, with paraphernalia
galore and eager for the first oppor-
tunity of the season to contract the
"buck fever"
Deer have been sighted in many OF
the mountain wilds and have become
tame enough to approach within gum
shot of some of the mountain resorts.
On July 10 they seem to vanish how
ever, and there will be few chances of
snapshots on the way to the camping
ground. There are more of the big
game than last year. according to
tales of the rangers. as there has been
better protection from the out-of-
season trailers. Doves, too, are on
the increase, and many disappointed
buck trailer will console himself with
limit brace of the white wings.
Many of the sportsmen are taking
along the new model automatic spit
fires, but the majority are packing
their good old single-shot standbyS
and trusting to their first trigger to
bag the big ones. The sporting goods
houses are doing almost twice the
amount of business that the season
brought around last year, and nearly
everyone is figuring whether he will
be one among a thousand or several
thousand. There is no denying the
statement that the wilds will be as
full of hunters as of game, for there
is always a crowd of the curious who
like to discover through personal, ex-
perience how it feels to be trailing the
buck and living in fairly uncomfort-
able fashion while the strenuous chase
is on.
The first week will halve the list of
the hunters, but will not cut down the
number of the hunted to any appre-
ciable extent. The second week Will
mark another decrease in the number
of the gunners, and the best chance
for the knowing ones" willing to eX-
ercise a little patience, is about the
first of the month, when the season
has really settled into full swing.
The old hunters, who are familiar
with the ways and byways of the
sport in Southern California, are plan
ming a couple of weeks at the birds
before they make their forage after
the four-footed game. There is no
fear but that there will be a few of
the bucks left, and the belief of many
is that there will be better deer chas-
ing the first of August than at any
other part of the season.
One of the pleasant sides of the
hunting trip will be the anticipation
of spending a few precious hours in
doing the Isaac Walton stunt in one
or two of the mountain streams, and
from the reports that the ones who
have been" are spreading freely
around the trout are running splendid
ly and full creels are plentiful 1t Is
a pretty sure thing that the deer will
appreciate the fact that there is sorne-
. ! txh he
odus begins today, and it is also a
pretty good guess that they will not
long continue as tame as they have
been during the closed portion of the
season. The ones who will bag their
game will have to go far from tho
madding crowd" and invade some
of the undiscovered sections to find
the object of their search. If you go
to hunt be sure to include your rod
and reel and a few flies in the pack,
as there is a good chance of enlivening
a dreary day, when the deer have
flown, by the angling sport, and the
latter diversion can provide more sat
isfaction for the majority when the
fish are biting we'll than hunting when
the deer have vanished.
E. C. Taylor and party viii leave
this morning for a days sport after
the whitewings around Compton. They
are pICpctltd " SINllNi q SOoPiN VI NeeJ
more if the sport warrants 1t, and
from preseason indications will get
what they are after
w. B. Collins and party have left
for the Ventura mountains where they
expect to bag their deer and do a little
trout angling on the side.
Mendocino county will be the goal of
many Of the local sharpshooters, while
the Newhall level country will afford
some fine dove bagging.
A number of the members OF the
| Pasadena Y. M. G. A. are spending
their vacations at Avalon, fishing and
hunting. The hunting on the island
was never better, and from reports re-
ceiVed from those who have been trail
ing the goats there is more than that
variety of game for the satisfying of
the hunter Sea fowl of every variety
are to be had for the pulling of trig-
ger.
Now that the seine rule Is being en-
forced along the southern coast, it
looks like a good year for the hook
and line anglers, and already the
change has been noticed in the way
the fish are coming in. The big storm
that flooded the local beaches last week
| brought in a number of large schools
bass can be hauled in from the
wharves. Wharf fishing is coming into
it's own and everyone can fish with
the assurance that he will have some
thing OF a string after good days
work.
A party consisting of Fred Schiff-
man, Hugh Gordon, Charlie Gordon
and Bob Runway will spend the sea-
sons opening after doves on the SEN
tous ranch near Covina. They are all
experts with the powder stick and can
bag the live ones as well as the clay
species.
Del Rey is having the first of the
seasons run in yellowtail and halibut
and a goodly throng of the fishermen
are stopping at the resort for their va
cation angling. Venice and Del Rey
afford ample opportunities for the
comfort of the angler who is vacation
bent, and there are enough Of the
hungry big ones around the wharves
] to warrant a healthy looking creeL.