File:Western field (1905) (14777068474).jpg

Identifier: westernfield61905olym (find matches)
Title: Western field
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protective Associations
Subjects: Olympic Club (San Francisco, Calif.) California Game and Fish Protectice Associations Sports
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
aside from the delightsof ownership, than the impostor Alversonhad loaned me. There is pleasure in owningthe best, but that does not mean that aphilosopher can not get amusement fromthings which cost but little. The fishing is said by tourists to be badon Lake Tahoe when they cant bring in aboat load in four hours. In Western Field for June, 1904, I attempted to contrast deeptrolling and surface trolling. Last season No official rules have yet appeared fromwhich to answer the question: When isthe best time to fish. Miners have an oldsaying: Gold is where you find it. So itis with our finny friends. They seem tocome and go and bite and fast without ruleor reason. One day just after a sharp showerof rain I though I would try my luck. 1pushed off my boat from the wharf, doingmy own rowing and holding my knee againstthe rod to brace it and block the reel. I hadnot proceeded twice the len<;th of my linewhen I was rewarded by a sharp strike andsoon landed a 2Vi.-pound fish. In an hour 1
Text Appearing After Image:
my stay at Brockway was during the lastweek of July and the first week of August,when the fishing was said to be poor at thevarious places on the lake, and yet my catchwith the rod was better than the averagecatch with the deep trolls and sufficient innumber to satisfy any one but a fish hog.My last years observations came to this:That when the fish are biting plentifully,deep trolling will produce the greater catch,and that when the fish are biting but poorlyfor deep trolling, surface trolling in theshallower waters is about as efficient—al-ways providing that one knows where to goand how to fish. caught four, and this about 4 p. m., an hourat which I had not heretofore been success-ful. I ascribe this as the reason for mygood luck: the rains wash into the lake fromthe shore, and also by means of smallstreams, quantities of the food upon whichthe fish feed. Whenever, therefore, it rains,following their instinct the fish seek theedges of the lake in search of food. Sometimes it is o

Note About Images