. California game "marked down"; . , should come here for a newsensation, and see his gold-sprinkled living arrows in the puremountain waters that gave them birth, and see that this most refiningsport is not dead—is not decadent even. An official of Tulare County,also a member of its Fish and Game Club, writes of a visit byhim and others as follows: <Golden Trout are plentiful in WhitneyCreek. My little twelve-year-old boy caught 125 in one day, on thetwenty-fourth of August, 1895, with a fly-hook, using no bait. L 2^ 1 MERCED COUNTY. Merced City, its county seat and principal town, is 152
. California game "marked down"; . , should come here for a newsensation, and see his gold-sprinkled living arrows in the puremountain waters that gave them birth, and see that this most refiningsport is not dead—is not decadent even. An official of Tulare County,also a member of its Fish and Game Club, writes of a visit byhim and others as follows: <Golden Trout are plentiful in WhitneyCreek. My little twelve-year-old boy caught 125 in one day, on thetwenty-fourth of August, 1895, with a fly-hook, using no bait. L 2^ 1 MERCED COUNTY. Merced City, its county seat and principal town, is 152 miles by railof Southern Pacific Company from San Francisco. Contiguous to it areSan Joaquin, Merced and Bear rivers and other streams, together withlarge reservoirs and irrigating canals and laterals. There is considerableacreage of low-lying land occasionally overflowed by superabundant irri-gation. These conditions combine to form attractions for water fowl,so much so that upon occasion market hunters find shooting over it to. WOOD DUCK. Aix Spans a, be profitable. Fine bags of geese and ducks are easily made, withsnipe and rail. Quail can also be obtained in the foothills and contig-uous valley lands. Doves, larks and squirrels are plentiful, and deerby no means wanting. The foothill streams, including the Merced andits tributaries and branches, are well stocked with trout and the SanJoaquin with trout, salmon, striped bass and catfish. Reliance can be safely made on farm-house entertainment, but the [ 26] most approved method is to engage a man for guide and campkeeper,with his team. This will cost about five dollars per day, added towhich will be the board of the man and his horses. Unless one has local knowledge it will be cheap insurance againstdoubts as to locations and possible failure of sport, not to mention the
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