The San Francisco call., 1910-05-08
TROUT SEASON ON
TRUCKEE IS Opened
Twenty-Five M emberS of the San
Francisco Fly Casting Club
Make Splendid Catches
BY FRANK o,poNNELL

The formal opening of the trout fish,
ing season at the san Francisco fly
casting clubs lodge on tne Trlvkee
river was the big event in tishiag CIR
cles last week. The season vas Ushered
in under auspicious circumstances snd
the 22 club members and their st.rsts
who wet their lines IN The grand old
trout stream on opening day enjoyed
some of the best fishing of their lives.
The water was just right, being clear
and low, and although the trout were
backward about rising 10 the iy Sur-
day morning, it was not long before
the skillful work of The anglers COM
menced to show results.
The total catch on The first day Of
the outing was $40 fish, ranging IRON
to 10 inches in length. +. y. Mocker
was the only member of :he party who
creeled a limit string on Sunday and
on the following day he accounted for
So.
W. d. Mansfield, Ed Everett and Aus
tin Sperry landed 20 each, T. c. KieruIf
accounted for 16 and Carter Poneroy
and Horace Sperry had 10 rainbow
specimens in their baskets at the end
of the first day of fishing.
Nearly all of the fishermen used
small flies. numbers II md IA. Mo, i<6 r
used fly of his own design and the
others found the royal coachmdn and
brown dun effective killers. James
Watt remained one day longe~ than
the others. starting for home Wednes-
day. Watt got 10 fish Tuesday While
fishing in a snoWstorm.
Other members of the party were r.
II. Flint, Charles II. Kewell, n. II. KIRK,
George Newman, Jack Harron, e. J..
Cooper and H. Dinkelspiel
Senator J. j. Simms aud Floyd s.
judah and son fished the river between
nd
Monday with good results. Judah ac-
counting for 25 and Simms landing Is
on the first day. j. G. Steiger and
James Thomson are at Boca today hav-
ing left the city yesterday.
The streams in San Mateo county
were well patronized by city sports
men during the week and results we're
excellent as rule. Sunday about 40
local fishermen whipped Parissima
creek and creeled some OF the fInest
strings ever taken from that stream.
Among those on the PurissIme last
Sunday were Midnight" Miller, Al
Baker, Frank Smith. Harry Baker.
William Augustine, Charles Lassing. G..
Beall. c. H. Seayer, Albert Mansfield. f..
Spence, John Creighton. George Ru-
dolph and son, Fred Weight. Is. j..
Burke, Henry and Herman Butts. E.
Dornham, J. H. Sneider. William Bates
and w. T. Wright. The best catch
made was a limit basket of 40 u
inch fish, negotiated by Herman Butts.
W r. Eaton. Joe Springer. Ernst
Boucher, S. Samish, Milton Fra1ken-
berg, Charles f. Breidenstein AMI Jim
Bell fished the San Gregorio. all of
them getting from % 70 50 nice fish.
Louis Daverkosen, DIR. Paul Noble.
Archie Dunchan and Frank AtteH were
at Wardell creek in Santa Cruz cOUnty
for a Saturday to Monday stay and
mana ged to get limit strings every day.
The old Paper Mill creek in Marin
county had its usual bunch OF visitors
| last Sunday. Jim Lynch. Charles P.
Landresse, Ed Conlin. Jim Turner. the
Poulsen brothers and d. Eaton liShed
the creek around Tocaloma and Camp
| Taylor. They found sport satisfactory
and creeled from 20 to 40 each. Far
ther down the stream at the point
George Wentworth. Joe Pincus, Sam
Wells, Bill Kennedy, Bert Dewar. the
three Uri brothers. Joe Garbarino and
Al Larsen found a strong north wind
against good fishing. They tared pret-
ty we'll. however, Joe Garbacino taking
SO steelhead, the best catch of the day.
According to letter received by a
city sportsman from the klamath Hot
Springs the sport seems to have got off
to good start up there. The letter
said that on last Sunday, the first day
of the season several limit strings
were taken on the hotel grounds. Al
Cummings and his wife are on the kia-
math and Hugh Copeland is on his way
to the river having started last night