. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. 302 THE CALIFORNIA §M mil $mi. FISHING IN WEBBEK LAKE. According to our usual annual habit, we and our nephew (joined this time by a brother of the latter, lately arrived from the East Indies), started from this city bent on a fishing trip to Webber Lake, in the northern part of this State, and close on the borders of that of Nevada. Before making up our minds for this point we had good and enthusi- astic intelligence from some of our most reliable piscatorial friends that the above lake abounded in
. The California horticulturist and floral magazine. Fruit-culture; Gardening. 302 THE CALIFORNIA §M mil $mi. FISHING IN WEBBEK LAKE. According to our usual annual habit, we and our nephew (joined this time by a brother of the latter, lately arrived from the East Indies), started from this city bent on a fishing trip to Webber Lake, in the northern part of this State, and close on the borders of that of Nevada. Before making up our minds for this point we had good and enthusi- astic intelligence from some of our most reliable piscatorial friends that the above lake abounded in noble and bril- liant specimens of the finest quality of brook-trout, averaging generally in weight from three quarters to one and a quarter pounds. In fully testing these assertions of our brother fisher- men who had visited the lake, we happily found them to be correct, as our descriptions about to be made more in detail, presented in this paper, will, we think, entirely prove. Our party took passage, at 4 o'clock p. m. , on the Vallejo boat, on Saturday, August 17th, connecting with the Vir- ginia Express train (having sleeping cars) to Truckee, which we reached early in the morning of the next day (Sunday), and which not being one of the days (Tuesdays and Fridays) that "Webber stages leave Truckee for the "Webber Lake Hotel, we hired a private conveyance, and, after a most pleasant ride of twenty-four miles through a de- lightful country, partly through white pine, sugar pine and tamarack forests, and partly through rich pasture lands, reached the Lake Hotel at about 2 p. m. This house is open for visitors from June 1st to November 1st. It is de- lightfully situated among handsome pine and other trees, flowering shrubs and brilliantly-hued wild flowers, within one hundred feet of the lake, on the borders of which, near a small wharf, are good boats of various sizes conveni- ent for fishermen. The beautiful lake, containing nearly 500 acres of pure, pellucid wat
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