. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Octobeb 28, 1899] ©Ijs gveeitev mtfc gfp&ctetnmu 29TI. W. D. Patterson and Vernon Sheppard who is known to the sporting fraternity aa a skilled taxidermist, enjoyed a pleasant quail hnnt in the vicinity of Vacaville recently. Several dozen saccnlent birds in prime condition were bagged. Billy Hynes, H. F. Wagner and Narry A. Wands ac- counted for nearly eight dczen birds shot at the canvasback clob preserve last Sunday, they were principally sprig but a few canvasback made their appearance and were gathered in. 8triped bass anglers who went to Rodeo last Sa
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Octobeb 28, 1899] ©Ijs gveeitev mtfc gfp&ctetnmu 29TI. W. D. Patterson and Vernon Sheppard who is known to the sporting fraternity aa a skilled taxidermist, enjoyed a pleasant quail hnnt in the vicinity of Vacaville recently. Several dozen saccnlent birds in prime condition were bagged. Billy Hynes, H. F. Wagner and Narry A. Wands ac- counted for nearly eight dczen birds shot at the canvasback clob preserve last Sunday, they were principally sprig but a few canvasback made their appearance and were gathered in. 8triped bass anglers who went to Rodeo last Saturday and Sunday found excellent fishing from the wharf at that point. On Sunday about twenty fishermen had out their rods, clams being the principal bait used. Among the lucky ones were Charley Precht, Chas. Breitenstein, J. Moody, G A. Went- worth and the redoubtable "; Six of Moody's fish weighed fourteen pounds, two of Andy's weighed over eleven pounds, everybody had fish and was correspondingly happy in having coaxed the coy but game fish from [the brackish waters of 8an Pablo bay into their creels. Oa SuLday between Port Costa and Vallejo Junction the fish were running up the straits, many fishermen lined the wharves Irving for the bass, F. E. Daverkosen, Jim Turner, Chas. Mead, Louis Miller and others, but try as they would, near the surface or at a depth of fifty feet, their hopes were founded on illusions, the fish were there but refused to be caught, except in one instance; five fisb, averaging over three pounds each, were caught on a trolley, much to the diegust of the high ritual pisca- torial artists. The bass are going up the Sao Joaquin and Sacramento rivers in large schools, many have been caught miles above the remotest influence of the tides. The Oakland estuary and San Leandro bay have both been pros- pected recently by some of the experts, Cross, McFarland, Wilson and others with fairly good results. It is safe to say that there is not now a
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