540 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. i, 1910. 
A few anglers are still visiting the streams in 
the sierras and are meeting with splendid re¬ 
sults, many of the streams being at their best 
at the present time. • D. M. Dachs has been 
spending some time on the Truckee, but has re¬ 
turned and will shortly go to Eel River in com¬ 
pany with Charles Breidenstein, of the Califor¬ 
nia Anglers’ Association. Harry Andrews has 
just returned from a two months’ vacation 
spent in the McCloud River country, and he 
reports that fishing was splendid up to the time 
he left. In addition to fishing he secured the 
limit of deer, and the party he was with killed 
two bears and a mountain lion. 
Steelheads are running in good shape, espe¬ 
cially in the Pescadero and San Gregoria 
lagoons. The Purissima is also well stocked, 
and one of the finest baskets of fish taken from 
there in a long time was secured a few days 
ago by the fair daughter of Fred Sarconds, a 
well-known angler of San Mateo. 
Salt water fishing in the vicinity of Sausalito 
is also very fine, rock cod and bass being the 
varieties most in evidence. Along the Ocean 
Shore railroad there is also some great sport, 
and now that this district is readily accessible, 
it is being visited by large crowds. Eels have 
been taken there in large numbers of late, some 
of these being the largest ever seen in these 
watrs. 
In Southern California there is some fine 
sport now being enjoyed fishing from the piers 
of the beach resorts. Halibut and sea trout 
are plentiful at the long pier at Santa Monica, 
and at times yellowtail and other varieties of 
big fish are taken, making the sport exciting. 
Great schools of sardines are seen, indicating 
that the big fish are close at hand. The catches 
of mackerel have been especially heavy, one 
man having taken more than 400 during a 
single week, the fish ranging from one-quarter 
to two and a half pounds. A. P. B. 
Murphy Lands Big Tuna. 
Avalon, Cal., Sept. 13.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Yesterday a regiment of big tuna 
charged on the veteran jewfisherman, L. G. 
Murphy, up near White Rock just inside Long- 
Point. Finally he laid to one, and after two 
and one-half hours landed the fish. It weighed 
175 pounds and was the biggest tuna the Tuna 
Club has awarded a button on in eight years. 
To-day another big tuna was taken by a new 
comer, F. E. Reed, of Oklahoma. It weighed 
161J4 pounds. 
The tuna have been running about the isthmus 
of late and some fish of enormous size are 
among them. Murphy raised one that he esti¬ 
mated at least a 400-pounder. These two tuna 
have set Avalon agog again, and a number of 
anglers have planned to return on the strength 
of it. The fish are plentiful, but their appetites 
are capricious. Food of all sorts is very plenti¬ 
ful and anglers think the big fellows have filled 
up on squid. The last change of the moon was 
favorable and more activity is predicted. 
To-day another good sized tuna was caught by 
Charles Twist, of Santa Ana. It weighed 150^2 
pounds and fought an hour and twenty-five 
minutes. Mr. Twist had just returned Sunday 
from a week’s fishing around Clemente in the 
“Clover” during which a 35-pound yellowtail, 
earning him a silver button as a light tackle 
catch, was the only catch of moment landed. 
Twist’s tuna was foul-hooked and had a pur¬ 
chase which gave it a chance to prolong the 
fight. Twist hooked five tuna, losing the first 
four through broken lines. 
Edwin L. Hedderly. 
Tournament Casting. 
Warrington Baden-Powell has on several 
occasions in the London Field criticised Ameri¬ 
cans for bashing the water behind them in their 
tournament fly-casting, from which it might 
easily be inferred that the fault is not one into 
which his fellow countrymen fall. The follow¬ 
ing paragraph from the Sporting and Dramatic 
News’ report of the recent British tournament 
is, therefore, not without interest: 
In the manipulation of the rod, the style of the foreign 
visitors differed in important points from that of the 
British. The former lifted the line with more effort, 
but gained in keeping it well up behind. For the fly to 
touch the water behind was judged a no-cast, a fault 
frequently committed by the British representatives, but 
rarely by the French. 
But then, it must be said that neither the Eng¬ 
lish nor the French amateurs have ever cast the 
fly very far in tournaments. The British record 
for trout fly-casting with the heavy single-hand 
rod is only 108 feet, which is several feet under 
the Australian record and more than twenty feet 
short of the American five-ounce-rod record. 
The man who made the 108-foot cast is an ama¬ 
teur, but is a member of a rod-making family 
which is advertising his performance and the rod 
he used in the largest type. 
The salmon fly casts in the recent tournament, 
made under the eighteen-foot rod rule, averaged 
well up, but were not very much higher than 
the average American casts with fifteen-foot rod, 
though every foot in rod length carries a tre¬ 
mendous advantage. 
In single-hand fly-casting it is not difficult to 
keep the line well up on the back cast when one 
is laying out eighty to ninety feet of heavy line, 
but in the long casts, upward of 100 feet, it is 
quite another matter, and although our average 
casters seldom strike the water behind them with 
the fly, where there is no penalty for doing so 
they concentrate their whole attention on the 
forward cast, and toward the end of their al¬ 
lotted time, when arm and wrist are tired, fre¬ 
quently grow careless as to the back cast. It 
would be a good plan for our clubs to follow 
the EJritish rules and disallow casts following 
the striking of the fly behind the platform. This 
has not as yet been done here, evidently be¬ 
cause it is conceded that the caster who errs in 
this respect penalizes his own chances of suc¬ 
cess. In other words, when there is no wind 
only the high back casts will count for anything. 
With a strong rear wind a lucky cast is now and 
then made following a sloppy back cast, but it 
is a dangerous habit to fall into, one calling for 
a powerful wrist and a rod that is practically un¬ 
breakable. It is too much to expect that a rod, 
however powerful, will lift a long line, drowned 
and slack, out of the water behind and propel 
it forward, all in a space of time too short for 
a full breath. 
For this very reason expert casters never at¬ 
tempt to^ retrieve a slack forward cast if it be 
a long one. If they find that they cannot lift 
the line clean and straight before it drowns, they 
shorten .line and begin over, extending little by 
little, keeping the back cast high, until the 
chance for a long shoot seems sure. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 18 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The following scores were made 
on Stow Lake yesterday and to-day ; wind south¬ 
west : 
Event No. 1. distance, feet: 
T. C. Kierulff . 
... 105 
*L. G. Burpee. 
... 92 
1.. G. Burpee. 
... 88 
*E. A. Mocker . 
... 101 
E. A. Mocker _ 
... 99 
*E. A. Mocker. 
... 99 
*L. G. Burpee. 
... 89 
T. C. Kierulff. 
... 102 
Event No. 2, accuracy, per cent.: 
F. A. Webster. 
99.2 
*L. G. Burpee_ 
98.10 
Geo. C. Edwards.. 
98.10 
*L. G. Burpee. 
97.7 
T. C. Kierulff. 
99.4 
*E. A. Mocker_ 
97.8 
I.. G. Burpee. 
97.12. 
*E. A. Mocker.... 
97.14 
E, A. Mocker. 
98.3 
*T. C. Kierulff. 
98.13 
F. IT. Reed. 
97.6 
*Geo. C. Edwards.. 
. 98.13 
*F. A. Webster_ 
99.8 
*F. H. Reed. 
97.2 
*F. A. Webster... 
99.5 
*F. H. Reed. 
98 
Event No. 3. delicacy, per 
cent.: 
Accuracy. Delicacy. 
Net. 
F. A. Webster .... 
... 98.52 99.10 
99.1 
Geo. C. Edwards .. 
.. 98.36 99.20 
98.58 
T. C. Kierulff _ 
.. 99.32 100 
99.46 
L. G. Burpee. 
.. 96.36 97.20 
96.58 
E. A. Mocker. 
.. 98.8 98.40 
98.24 
F. H. Reed. 
.. 98.48 98.40 
98.44 
*F. A. Webster_ 
.. 99.8 99.20 
99.14 
*F. A. W ebster_ 
.. 99.36 99.40 
99.38 
*L. G. Burpee. 
.. 96.20 97 
96.40 
*L. G. Burpee _ 
.. 97.40 98.10 
97.55 
*E. A. Mocker. 
.. 97.12 99.50 
98.31 
*E. A. Mocker. 
.. 97.4 99.20 
98.12 
*T. C. Kierulff. 
.. 98.40 100 
99.20 
*Geo. C. Edwards.. 
.. 97.32 99.40 
98.36 
*F. H. Reed. 
.. 99.4 99.40 
99.22 
*F. H. Reed. 
.. 98.52 99.20 
99.6 
Event No. 4'. lure 
casting. 
per -cent.: 
F. A. Webster . 
. 91.2 
Geo. C. Edwards .. 
. 97.2 
100 
1 . C. Kierulff. 
. 98.4 
106 
E. A. Mocker . 
. 96.6 
120 
F. II. Reed. 
. 88.5 
F. T. Cooper. 
. 83.2 
109 
*F. A. Webster. 
*F. A. Webster_ 
. 87.3 
*E. A. IVtocker .... 
.. 97.8 
103 
: E. A. Mocker. 
. 98.5 
127 
*T. C. Kierulff. 
. 98.2 
149 
*T. C. Kierulff. 
97 
*Geo. C. Edwards.. 
. 95.1 
124 
F. H. Reed. 
. 66.9 
S F. T. Cooper. 
. 87.2 
108 
*R e-entries. 
Sunday, Sept. 18: 
Ev nt Xo. 1. distance, feet: 
H. B. Sperry. 
... 88 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
... 115 
T. C. Kierulff. 
... 105 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 119 
C. H. Kewell .. 
... 87 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 116 
E. A. Mocker . 
.. 96 
*J. B. Kenniff. 
.. 119 
T. B. Kenniff . 
... 117 
Event No. 2, accuracy, per 
cent.: 
H. B. Sperry. 
98.11 
T. B. Kenniff . 
98.13 
F. T. Cooper . 
96.3 
*F. H. Reed. 
97.11 
T. C. Kierulff. 
98.13 
*Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
97.13 
C. H. Kewell. 
98.13 
*F. T. Cooper...... 
98.3 
F. M. Haight. 
98.3 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
98.5 
F. H. Reed. 
97.14 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
99 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
98.8 
*1. B. Kenniff. 
97.10- 
E. A. Mocker. 
97.5 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
99.2 
Tames Watt . 
96.6 
Event No. 3, delicacy, per 
cent.: 
Accuracy. Delicacy. 
Net.- 
H. B. Sperrv. 
.. 98.28 99.20 
98.54 
T. C. Kierulff. 
.. 98.36 100 
99.18 
C. Id. Kewell. 
.. 98.32 99.20 
98.56 
F. M. Haight. 
96.56 96.40 
96.48 
F. H. R»ed. 
.. 98.24 99.20 
98.52 
Dr. W. E. Brooks.. 
.. 98.S 99.20 
98.44 
E. A. Mocker. 
.. 97.56 99.20 
98.38 
Tames Watt . 
.. 96.36 99 
97.48 
T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 97.40 100 
98.50 
*F. H. Reed. 
.. 98.56 99.20 
99.S 
*Dr. \\ . E. Brooks. 
.. 97 98.40 
97.50 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 98.16 99.40 
98.58 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 98.28 99.30 
93.59 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 98.16 99.20 
98.48 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
.. 98.8 99.40 
98.54 
* Tames Watt . 
.. 97.8 98.20 
97.44 
Event No. 4. lure 
casting. 
per cent.: 
H. B. Sperry. 
. 93.2 
SI 
F. 1. Cooper. 
. 95.1 
127 
1. C. Kierulff . 
. 96.8 
132 
C. H. Kewell . 
. 94.0 
109 
F. IT. Reed. 
. S5.6 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
. 91.8 
105 
E. A. Mocker. 
. 97.9 
115 
Tames Watt . 
. 97.2 
117 
T. B. Kenniff. 
170 
*F. IT. Reed. 
. 9i.O 
*Dr. W. E. Brooks 
pi 7 
111 
*F. T. Cooper. 
136 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
. 9* ,o 
148 
»T. B. Kenniff. 
. 90.3 
151 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
. 90-1 
1»)0 
*T. B. Kenniff. 
. 90.1 
*F. T. Cooper. 
157 
F.. O. Ritter, Clerk. 
