"Striper Time" - Old movie clip

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQHQ...moldychum.com/

This movie is probably about 50 years old and shows how the Striper fishing was back then.

[Tracy Chimenti]

Thanks alot for that one Bill-- Days when men were men carried ice chests. I didn't recognize any of the names, so I guess that kind of dates me forward, huh?

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Those really were the "good old days"...........

Try to imagine how many Stripers (imported ~1877), American Shad (imported ~1877), Salmon (Kings and Silvers), Sturgeon and Steelhead would come into the San Francisco Bay from the ocean 100 years ago to feed and spawn?

Try to imagine the schools of anchovies, sardines, herring, mackerel and other "bait fish" at that time.

Imagine the numbers of clams, crabs, abalone and other abundant seafood.

This was before the most of the dams, big industry and the big agriculture put the hurt of our ecosystem.

I don't think sport fishing had anything to do with the lose of all these fisheries.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Email from Nancy Siegler:

Thanks Bill.

I used to do surf fishing with my Dad near Playland in San Francisco. We lived in the city near the ocean. It was called the Sunset District. I lived on 38th avenue.

This film brought back good memories.

Nancy

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Over the years I heard lots of old stories about the great Striper surf and rock casting around Pacifica in San Francisco.

[Tracy Chimenti]

My dad grew up in the "Marina", was a sea scout, and spent most of his time with a pole or a tiller in his hand. He used to tell me about his brother's 35-pound striper that was subdued from a cluster of pilings across from the end of Aquatic Park pier. I think it was the old ferry terminal. He hooked it at dusk and spent an hour or so getting it corraled. This was during the end of the great depression, 4 or five years before WWII, when they were both 13 and 14-years of age. My uncle became a family hero on that night and there were full bellies for days!

Makes me think of chantrelles?

[Tony Buzolich]

Hey Tracy,

My dad and uncle used to fish there as well. They used to talk about steaming crabs on the sidewalk at a laundry a block or so up the hill. Handlines were the thing back then for them.
TONY

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

I can remember going crabbing and clamming with the family on our California coast when I was a little fart.

We got tons of those big horse neck clams and dungeness crabs too.

Just too many people now...............