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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 24, 1911. 
Fishing in California. 
Berkeley, Cal., June 17.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The season for black bass opened June 
1 in all of the fish and game districts of the 
State and will extend until Jan. 1, except in 
places where local ordinances cut down its length. 
The limit catch of this fish is fifty a day. On 
the opening day a number of San Francisco ang¬ 
lers went to Prospect Slough, but the results se¬ 
cured were disappointing. All the streams with 
headwaters in the sierras are still high, and this 
is probably the reason that black bass are not 
to be found in great numbers in their usual 
haunts. The waters of the San Joaquin and the 
Sacramento rivers are now spread out over the 
lowlands and the bass are in the shallows in 
search of food. When the waters recede, the 
bass will again be found in the deep stretches of 
the river and in the favorite pools. Black bass 
are being rapidly introduced into lakes and 
streams that are not now stocked. The black 
bass here are not quite as large as in the Eastern 
States, but they are very gamy. Most of these 
taken here are caught with minnows and other 
live bait by casting and trolling. 
Trout fishing is steadily improving, but it will 
be the first of July, or even later, before it is at 
its best. There is still much snow in the moun¬ 
tains, and most of the streams are high, al¬ 
though clear water is the rule. In many locali¬ 
ties where the best fishing is usually to be had 
about the first of May, anglers are just now com¬ 
mencing to find the fish plentiful, indicating how 
late the season is. The mountain streams are 
well filled with fish and the present season should 
be successful. The excellent work of the State 
commission in stocking streams is commencing 
to have its effect, and good fishing is now to 
be had in streams that were without fish. A fine 
lot of fry are now on hand for distribution. 
The fish distributing car of the commission is 
now being made ready, and the active work of 
planting trout fry in the streams of the State 
will begin this month. The take of eggs at the 
various hatcheries has been very successful and 
all the fry desired have been hatched out. At 
the Sisson hatchery 1,200,000 Loch Leven eggs 
have been taken, 1,000,000 rainbow trout eggs and 
about 900,000 Eastern brook trout. At the 
Klamath River station 1,500,000 wild rainbow 
trout eggs were taken and on Shovel Creek 
about 1,000,000 of the same. The Eel River 
station will furnish about 1,900,000 steelhead fry, 
the Scott Creek station in Santa Cruz county 
T,300,000 steelhead fry, and the Price Creek sta¬ 
tion about 130,000 of the same. The catch at 
the latter station was light, owing to high water. 
At Tallac about 2,000,000 eggs have been taken 
to date. It is intended to take four or five mil¬ 
lion this season. A station is to be opened at 
Wawona, but no eggs will be gathered there, 
this to be a hatching station and distributing 
point for the Yosemite district. 
A number of complaints have come to the 
Fish and Game Commission in regard to condi¬ 
tions at the Empire Weir in Kings River below 
Kingsburg, and this matter has been looked into 
by A. D. Ferguson, who has the San Joaquin 
district in charge and who was in San Francisco 
recently filling a place in the local office during 
the absence of one of the assistants. The com- 
p'aints allege that the weirs keep the fish from 
coming up stream and state that a difference in 
level in the river is maintained here of fully 
eleven feet, and that the boards in the weir are 
in place, making the height that would have to 
be cleared by a fish fully twenty feet. The fish 
are gathered below the weirs in great numbers 
coming up from Tulare Lake and are being 
caught by the sackful by market fishermen, cat¬ 
fish being the most abundant. Dip nets are being 
used extensively, and the fish caught but not de¬ 
sired are allowed to rot in the vicinity. The 
local officials state that the fish ladders are in 
place, but that conditions are so ideal at the foot 
of these weirs that the catfish do not care to 
use them. Visitors have noted the fish ladders 
and have watched them to see fish pass over, 
but seeing none have concluded that they are 
ineffective. As Chief Deputy Babcock has re¬ 
marked, the average person does not understand 
the construction of a fish ladder and does not 
know that the fish is supposed to make his ascent 
through the opening provided below the over¬ 
flow. 
William Ehrich, of New York, with Sam 
Wells, of San Francisco, has gone to the Big 
Meadow country. From reports sent down by 
them the sport in that section has been a'l that 
could be desired and some fine large fish have 
been taken. These anglers have been using flies 
exclusively. No fish are taken weighing less than 
a half pound, and five-pounders are not infre¬ 
quently landed. 
Mrs. M. L. Church and Mrs. Winnie Patter¬ 
son, of Berkeley, have been about the first women 
to make the trip into the trout regions of the 
sierras and are spending a month fishing on the 
Feather River between Sloat and Portola. While 
the river has been rather high, they have made 
fair catches and have secured many large fish. 
Before their return they plan to visit Gold Lakes 
in the vicinity of Johnsville and try lake fishing. 
The California Ang'ers’ Association has been 
showing in its club rooms in the Dunne Bui’ding 
a set line recently found in a favorite striped 
bass fishing grounds by one of its members, Emil 
Medeau. The line was anchored beneath the 
water and had almost fifty fresh'y baited hooks 
on it. 
Twenty-five prominent sportsmen of San 
Francisco and Stockton have formed a new 
country club and have secured a preserve of 
about 7,000 acres in the Sierra Nevadas north 
of Truckee. The tract includes in its confines 
Webber Lake and several small streams which 
will be stocked with trout. Among the mem¬ 
bers of the new club are: George McNear, R. 
M. Davis, W. B. Tubbs, F. S. Moody, J. D. 
McKee, J. A. Chanslor, E. A. Stent, W. O. Way- 
man, J. R. Howell, W. C. Murdock, W. A. 
Bissell, A. S. Hodgkins, W. C. Neumiller, Edgar 
Painter, James Irvine, A. D. King, F. H. Buck, 
C. O. Hooker and J. C. Wilson. 
Golden Gate. 
A Satisfied Party. 
Chicago, Ill., June 14.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Our party, consisting of William Wol- 
farth, Geo. A. Murrell and myself, all old mem¬ 
bers of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club, who an¬ 
nually visit the northern streams of Wisconsin, 
and regularly obtain our non-resident hook-and- 
line license in that State, where some of the 
best game and fish laws apply, finds the streams 
and lakes of that State are being constant'y re¬ 
plenished from the large license fund yearly ob¬ 
tained by a wisely enacted law, to the discredit 
of the State of Michigan and her poor fish laws. 
We again spent seven days among the speckled 
brook trout ( Fontinalis ) where joy meets the 
angler’s heart, and where the waters are so 
bountifully supplied that we, “Bil y,” George and 
I, naturally curtailed our zeal to what we nor¬ 
mally consume with a big appetite, and to bring 
home the lawful number. It was not difficult 
on any reasonably good day to take the limit 
and of lawful size, if one was so disposed. 
We found the gray Palmer, professor, grizzly 
king and queen of the waters in the order named 
the most efficient; in fact, we did not angle 
with or cast but with the artificial fly. 
H. A. Newkirk. 
Chicago Fly-Casfing Club. 
Chicago, Ill., June 11.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following scores of the Chicago 
Fly-Casting Club were made to-day: 
Half-ounce accuracy, bait: 
H. W. Perce. 
99.3 
O. T. Loomis. 
9S.3 
H. L’ndauer . 
98.8 
tH. Whitby . 
98.8 
tF. Kleinfeldt . 
9S.7 
E. R. Letterman. 
98.6 
Tohn Hohman . 
98.0 
F. N. Peet. 
97.8 
F. P. Navlor. 
97.8 
T. M. Smith. 
97.7 
Luckie . 
97 0 
H. Noves . 
PG.9 
A. G. Schultz. 
96.2 
Half-ounce distance, bait: 
‘ Feet. 
H W. Perce . 84% 
+ H. Whitby .166% 
O J. Loomis.123 
tF. Kleinfeldt . 64% 
F. N. Peet.107% 
Distance and accuracy, fly: 
O. J. Loomis. 99 9-15 
F. N. Peet. 98 S-15 
H. W. Perce. 99 3-15 
A. G. Schultz.98 3-15 
'V. S. Robinson... 98 7-15 
H. P. Anderson_ 98 4-15 
H. Lindauer . 97 S-15 
H. P. Anderson.. 
Dr. Spruce . 
.... 94.9 
W. S. Robinson... 
.... 94.7 
*H. W. Perce . 
.... 99.1 
*0. T. Loomis. _ 
.... 98.9 
*H. Whitby . 
.... 98.4 
*F. N. Peet . 
. ... 97.9 
* Luckie . 
.... S8.7 
*H. Noves . 
*A. G. Schultz. 
.... 96.4 
*H. P. Anderson.. 
.... 96.4 
*W. S. Robinson... 
.... 92 4 
Feet. 
F. P. Naylor . 
... 99 % 
A. G. Schultz . 
...118% 
*0. T. Loomis _ 
...117% 
*F. N. Peet . 
•• 121% 
J. M. Smith . 
. 98 1-15 
* 0 . T. Loomis . 
. 99 2-15 
*F. N. Peet.... 
. 90 6-15 
*H. W. Perce . 
. 99 5-15 
*A. G. Schultz.... 
. 99 1-15 
*J. M. Smith . 
. 98 9-15 
Long distance, fly, heavy rod: 
Feet. 
a' <? e , et ;. 115 Cal 
‘Re-entries. fVisitors. 
McCarty 
Feet. 
.. 98 
John Hohman, Sec’y. 
Kansas City Bait- and Fly-Casting Club. 
Kansas City, Mo.— June 12.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The following scores were made 
by members at Rock s Lake, June 11: 
HALF-OUNCE 
F. G. McLean. 99.3 
J. C. Kerner. 98.2 
E. M. Meier. 9'<.0 
W. L. Rock. 97.9 
C. E. Heite.97 S 
F. B. Robinson...... 87 1 
C. H. Cheney. 9 7 0 
ACCURACY. 
Geo. L. Robirds.... 
N. F. Noland . 
.T. G. Hollingsworth. 
LL H. Hosterman 
O. H. Pitkin. 
G. W. Woolw-jrh. 
C. H. Doyle. 
96.9 
96.6 
4-0.3 
96.1 
93 1 
25.9 
53.9 
On account of the high wind the quarter-ounce 
and the accuracy and distance fly events were 
postponed. E. G. McLean, Sec’y. 
Newark Bait- and Fly-Casting Club. 
Newark, N. J., June 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: The following scores'were made at the 
first contest of the Newark Bait- and Fly- 
Casting Club June 10: 
%oz. 
Accuracy. 
F. T. Mapes.97.12 
C T. Champion.97.9 
P. Muldoon 
A. J. Neu. 
D. F. Mercer. 
R. R. Eichlin. 
T. Glaister ... 
L. L. Sands.. 
.97.6 
. .96.6 
..96.2 
.97 ji 
A? J. Marsh.97.8 
O 
l, 
z. Dist.^, 
Dist. 
Accy. 
Best. 
Average. 
Fly. 
Fly. 
157 
143 
104.6 
99.1 
160 
94.2 
89 
98.7 
137 
120.4 
88 
99 
160 
125.2 
73 
w 
74.6 
w 
139 
l6o" 
0 
116 
76 
117 
140.3 
SfL6 
99. i 
F. T. Mapes, Sec’y. 
