San Francisco Call, Volume 87, Number 159, 28 April 1900 — TROUT STREAMS YIELD A FAIR MEED OF FISH [ARTICLE]

TROUT STREAMS YIELD A FAIR MEED OF FISH

No Anglers Returned Last Saturday With Empty Creels From Near-by Pools.

All the anglers who fished the trout streams easily accessible from tlils city last Sunday secured fair returns for their efforts. The majority had from eight to ten fish In their creels. The conditions this week are more favorable for fishing and better sport Is promised. Reports from the Truckee are to the effect that trout are -taking the fly all along the river. No big catches have been reported except In the vicinity of Verdi. The run of spawn fish at the Shovel Creek station on Klarr.ath River has ceased. The total take was over 600.000 eggs, the best results In three years. The run of spawn fish at Truckee has been light during the past ten days. The season will clcse on May 1 with a total take of 550,000 eggs. At Lake Tahoe station spawn fish are still numerous. The total take of eggs at two stations will be 3.000.<XK). The Wawona hatchery on th» south fork of Merced River in Yosemite National Park Is In operation, eggs having been shipped there from Shovel Creek and Tahoe stations. The fish hatched at this station will f>e planted in the lakes and streams of the Yosemite. Fish Commissioners Vogelsang and Gould visited the United States salmon hatchery at Baird on the McCloud last week. While on the ground they fished two evenings, securing 3ume tine specimens of trout. i_ - A. S Caiman, George Morse. Edward Everett and Walter Carr postponed their .projected trip to the McCioud until next week. It is expected weather conditions will be more settled by that time and that there will be a corresponding improvement in the sport. They expect to make their headquarters at Raymond's cabin. If they decide to do so they will go in over the Salt Creek trail and will not touch at Baird. The rain of last week was heavy on the I'ppf-r Sacramento River and the water was greatly discolored Saturday and Sunday, preventing the use of the fly. If weather conditions permit A. L. Coombs and wife and Bert Noyes and wife will test the fly fishing to-day and to-morrow in the Sacramento near Sims. Charles S. Wheeler and wife went to their beautiful summer home on the McCloud last Wednesday week, returning to this city last Monday. They enjoyed the novelty of a heavy snowstorm while on the river. After the storm the weather changed to warmer and Mr. Wheeler secured some fine fish with a fly. A number of house parties are being arranged for the season and much pleasure Is expected from them. Charles Huyck and F. M. Haight fished Olema Creek lnst Sunday. They secured ten trout, the largest being eleven Inches in length. Charles Precht secured nine trout at Point Reyes, while Messrs. Daverkosen and Turner secured between them twenty at -Paner Mill. , , Frank Dolllver landed a 7V4-pound steelhead at Point Reyes. Horace Smyth, secretary of the San Francisco Fly-casting Club, who has spent the winter on the Mediterranean Is expected in Philadelphia on May 12. He will leave there almost Immediately for this citi-. being due here on May 20. From Santa Cruz and Monterey come reports to the effect that salmon fishing was unusually good early this week. As high as 100 were killed last Sunday. the fish running from twenty to forty pounds. Striped bass have been seen In numbers Jn Oakland estuary, but few of them have been caught. A well-known fisherman sends the following communication with the additional comment that all the statements can be substantiated, and are of Interest to sportsmen. He writes: ' Xotlnir In one of th» daily papers of Saturday last that the flshlnjr In Purisslma Creek promised to be unusually rood this season I des're to correct such delusion. The flsh are unusually small this ye«r and the catch on April 1 lwh»n all conditions were favorable) I am told averaged only about 25 per cent of that of lajt yfar. On one occasion I saw an Individual (whose Identity I was unable to learn, but who probably flattered himself with the belief that h» was a gentlf>m?n and a sportsman) catch in a few minutes six minnows, not one of which was ovrr three and a half Inches In lensrth. I did not see h!m rr «ny one else catch a fls'n of re?p<* c tnble *ize and the baskets obtained ' wer« *mall. Twenty-five thousand trout were planted In tha stream during the last frii.cn and It Is probable the sport will be - fairly rood In another year. At present the true sportsman will return tf» the stream at least 50 per cent of his catch in the Purlsslma. Colonel Kelihor Is still at Baird and reports a few fish every day.