April 22, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
tluisiast who was there on the opening day se¬ 
cured ten fine fish, among which was a 17- 
pounder. Fly-fishing is not yet at its best, most 
of the big catches being made with the use of 
bait, preferrably salmon spawn. 
Walter Welch, game warden of Santa Cruz 
county, has given out the following statement 
in regard to conditions in that section: The 
heavy freshets of the last winter have cleaned 
out the rubbish and debris from the creek beds, 
as they have not been cleaned out in fifteen 
years past; in consequence there are many clear 
and unobstructed pools and deep riffles. The 
water is still a bit high in the main streams, 
but is clear. However, the main streams should 
be in fine fishing condition in a short time, and 
with the continuance of good weather, plentiful 
catches ought to reward the angler. The 
streams in Santa Cruz county are easily reached 
from San Francisco, and will be even more ac¬ 
cessible when the Ocean Shore Railroad to 
Santa Cruz is completed. Boulder Creek is a 
central starting point for a large number of fine 
streams, including Bear, Two Bar, Kings, San 
Lorenzo, Deer, Tar, Waterman and Scott 
creeks. 
In Santa Clara county conditions are also 
promising and already some good catches have 
been made in the streams there in spite of the 
fact that the water was rather high on opening 
day. When the first heavy rains fell this season 
many fine steelhead trout were to be seen in 
the water at the mouth of the bay streams, and 
the big ones are expected to be plentiful. Fish¬ 
ing will probably be extended over a longer 
period of time this season than has been the 
case in many years, owing to the fact that the 
winter rains were very heavy and the water 
supply is much more abundant. 
Some fine salt water fishing has been had in 
the San Gregorio lagoon in San Mateo county 
of late and above tidewater there has been some 
excellent sport enjoyed since the opening of the 
season. Before the opening of the season one 
“sooner” was arrested and paid a fine of $40 
for his experience. 
Point Reyes is a favorable fishing ground and 
has been visited by almost as many as usual 
since the opening of the season in fresh water, 
so satisfactory have been the catches made 
there. On Paper Mill Creek, in the Point 
Reyes district, fishermen have been so thick on 
the banks of the stream as to be in each other’s 
way and but few fish have been taken there. 
The Ocean Shore Railroad is being used by 
many to get to good fishing grounds and Man¬ 
ager A. H. Otis is looking ahead for next sea¬ 
son and will have 400,000 trout fry planted in- 
the principal streams. A. P. B. 
Still Cold at Lake Sunapee. 
Springfield, Mass., April 15.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: It may be of interest to many of 
your readers to learn what the condition of the 
ice is in Lake Sunapee. On April 14 the ice 
was fully two feet thick and teams were cross¬ 
ing the lake as they have done all winter. The 
ice will not go out of the big lake much before 
May 1, if then. The water in the lake is much 
lower this year than usua', although there is 
fully two feet of snow in the woods around the 
lake. 
I have kept a record as to when the ice has 
gone out of the main body of the lake during 
the past few years, and find it was as follows: 
1902, April 9; 1903, April n; 1904, April 29; 
1905, April 26; 1906, April 29; 1907, May 1; 1508, 
April 25; 1909, April 21; 1910, April 5. 
1 he sportsmen are looking forward to having 
a lot of sport with the chinook salmon soon 
after the ice is out. From 400 to 500 of these 
fish were taken during 1910 and some as large 
as seventeen pounds. 
Many were taken by trolling, and a good many 
large fish were lost owing to poor tackle. From 
the rapid growth that these salmon have made 
since they were first planted in Lake Sunapee 
in 1904, I fully believe that fish weighing twenty- 
five pounds will be taken during 1911, and I ad¬ 
vise any person going there to first procure the 
right kind of tackle. Do not spend your time 
and money to go fishing and then lose your 
fish on account of having poor tackle. 
George H. Graham. 
Landlocked Salmon in Lake Michigan? 
Chicago, Ill., April 4.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following piece of news was pub¬ 
lished in the Record-Herald to-day in regard to 
landlocked salmon being caught in Lake‘Michi¬ 
gan : 
“The pleasing discovery was made yesterday 
that Lake Michigan has been stocked with 
salmon. 
"How and when and by whom are questions 
to which answers were not forthcoming. Local 
anglers are satisfied to know that the fish are 
here, and seem indifferent about solving the 
mystery of their presence. 
“A trio of fishermen took 640 pounds of the 
strangers in nets near Gary, Saturday afternoon. 
Neither of them could classify their catch. They 
knew the fish was not carp. One thought it 
might be the steelhead trout, but was not certain. 
"Ned Moran, who saw them, brought one of 
the fish to Chicago to get expert advice from 
Call McCarthy, a fishculturist who recently 
moved to Chicago from New York. McCarthy 
pronounced the fish landlocked salmon. The 
specimen he viewed weighed three and one-half 
pounds. Some of those taken at Gary weighed 
up to six pounds.” Fred N. Peet. 
Chicago, Ill., April 15.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: We had a revelation here recently in 
that landlocked salmon have been discovered in 
Lake Michigan. It seems some fishermen set 
their gillnets off Gary, Ind., and have been tak¬ 
ing a fish they did not know. Some hundreds 
of pounds were caught and sold locally. Some¬ 
one brought a specimen into V. L. & A.’s, and 
Richards and McCarthy both classified it as 
landlocked salmon. At another time later several 
were brought in and they both confirmed their 
position. Personally we did not see them and 
would not know, anyhow. The largest so far 
is asserted to range around twelve pounds. It 
is such a stretch of water, about twenty-five 
miles across here, that one hardly knows where 
to try for them with rod and lure. We may 
explore a little when the weather settles some. 
L. E. DeGarmo. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., April 9.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Results of the casting on Stow 
Lake yesterday and to-day with fair weather 
and variable winds : 
SATURDAYS SCORES. 
E. A. Mocker .104 J. B. Kenniff.. 
T. C. Kierulff.103 F. A. Webster. 
Event No. 2, accuracy, per cent.: 
112 
S2 
E. A. Mocker 
James . 
Geo. C. Edwards.. 
T. C. Kierulff. 
F. V. Bell. 
J. B. Kenniff. 
Event No. 3 
98.6 C. G. Young . 
96.6 F. A. Webster. 
99.2 W. D. Mansfield... 
99 F. J. Cooper. 
96.10 *E. A. Mocker.... 
. 99.1 *F. V. Bell. 
delicacy, per cent.: 
Accuracy. Delicacy. 
98 
E. A. Mocker . 96.56 
James Watt . 95.44 
Geo. C. Edwards. 98.36 
T. C. Kierulff. 97.32 
J. B. Kenniff. 97.4 
C. C.. Young. 98.36 
F. A. Webster. 9S.44 
W. D. Mansfield. 99.4 
Event No. 4, lure casting: 
97.40 
99 
98.20 
98.40 
98.40 
99.20 
99.20 
9S.4 
97.2 
98.7 
97.6 
96.3 
97.8 
Net. 
97.28 
96.42 
98.48 
97.56 
97.52 
98.38 
99.2 
99.12 
E. A. Mocker. 
Tames Watt . 
Per Cent. 
Feet. 
123.6 
1 9 St ft 
Geo. C. Edwards_ 
93 
1. C. Kierulff. 
115.6 
F. V. Bell. 
83 
J. B. Kenniff. 
176.4 
C. G. Young. 
133.4 
F. A. Webster. 
W. D. Mansfield_ 
150 
J. F. Burgm. 
122.4 
F. J. Cooper. 
101.2 
*E. A. Mocker. 
*Re-entries. 
Sunday’s 
SCORES. 
Event No. 1, distance, feet: 
T. B. Kenniff. 
. 112 
T. 
Qf 
F Y. Bell. 
. 74 
E. 
P. M. Nippert . 
. 78 
c. 
u 
H. B. Sperry. 
. 105 
Event No. 2 
W. L. Gerstle 
J^ B. Kenniff... 
H. 
C. 
F. 
C. 
P. 
C. 
G. 
V. 
H. 
M. 
Tames 
H. B. 
F. M. 
Golcher. 
Young.. 
Bell. 
Kierulff. 
Nippert. 
Watt .. 
Sperry . 
Haight. 
accuracy, per cent.: 
96.2 “ “ 
99.1 
98.1 
98.11 
98.16 
97.3 
96.14 
95.3 
95.1 
97.4 
T. C. Kierulff... 
Dr. W. E. Brooks 
F. H. Reed.... 
E. A. Mocker.. 
C. H. Kewell.. 
F. J. Cooper .. 
*E. A. Mocker 
*F. M. Haight. 
H. C. Golcher. 
95.6 
98.14 
97.9 
97.12 
98.8 
98.6 
99 
98.12 
98.13 
Event No. 3, delicacy, per 
cent.: 
Accuracv. Delicacv. 
YV. L. Gerstle. 
... 95.8 
95.20 
J. B. Kenniff. 
99.40 
H. C. Golcher . 
.. 98.8 
98.40 
C. G. Young-. 
99.20 
F. Y. Bell. 
97 
C. A. Kierulff. 
... 99.24 
9S 
P. M. Nippert. 
95.50 
James Watt . 
97 
H. B. Sperry. 
... 99.24 
98.40 
F. M. Haight. 
97.10 
i. C_. Kierulff. 
.. 98.28 
98.40 
F. H. Reed. 
99 
E. A. Mocker. 
.. 98.32 
99.30 
(. H. Kewell. 
.. 97.28 
99 
F. J. Cooper. 
.. 97.4S 
96.40 
*E. A. Mocker. 
.. 98.24 
98.50 
*F. M. Haight. 
.. 95.32 
97.20 
*H. C. Golcher. 
99 
Event No. 4, lure casting: 
T. B. Kenniff. 
Per Cent. 
.. 9fi.8 
H. C. Golcher. 
.. 82.3 
C. G. Young. 
.. 97.4 
F. V. Bell. 
.. 90.7 
C. A. Kierulff. 
.. 92.7 
Paul M. Nippert. 
.. 87.1 
James Watt . 
.. 97 
H. B. Sperry. 
.. 91.9 
T. C. Kierulff. 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 94.3 
F. H. Reed. 76.1 
Mocker. 90.2 
Kewell. 94.5 
Cooper. 94.8 
Burgin. 94.8 
E. 
C. 
F. 
J. 
A. 
H. 
k 
Net. 
95.14 
99.6 
98.24 
99.2 
97.10 
98.42 
95.7 
97.44 
99.2 
97.41 
9S.34 
98.36 
99.1 
95.14 
97.14 
98.37 
96.26 
98.28 
Feet. 
178.4 
88 
101 
35 
118.4 
102 
149.2 
125 
86 
92 
‘ii 
129.6 
S3 
69 
E. O. Ritter, Clerk. 
A Late Season. 
Because of the snow and ice still in the Adi¬ 
rondack*, the early trout fishing may be affected. 
The snow is melting very slowly, and the ice 
on some of the lakes is still thick. Lake Cham¬ 
plain was ice-locked on the nth, when the trans¬ 
portation company expected to begin running 
boats, and it had waited two weeks longer than 
usual. Nearly everywhere the early trout fishers 
found frosty mornings and cold, windy days. 
