New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-06

Eel FIsHIsG IN THE SUsQUEHASSA.-At the pres
ent time, the pursuit and capture of the piscatoria
treasures of the Susquehanna furnishes vast amount
of sport for the riparian residents and what is of
mole importance, supplies them with considerable
amount OF valuable food. About the middle of August
the water of the stream becomes very low and usually
by September that in the channel is only few feet
deep, leaving the stony bottom for wide space on
either eide places nearly bare, with occasional
deeper burrows which pass along It, Al TINS stage o
water, the instinct which governs the tsh to descend
the rivers previous the advent of cold weather, be-
comes the means of their destruction. For many miles
of the rivers length, therefore, north and south oil us
the people owning the shore adjoining, erect their
fish-dams and gins by deepening the channel some
what, and building elongated N-shsped WALL
at the lower point Of which is fixed box, from
which the fish when once caught cannot eXtr-
cate themselves. Obeying this instinct in their
descent of the stream, they fnd themselves borne
pleasantly in this channel and wrigghng them
selves cheerily, they let the current, pent in by
the walls carry them along Until they tumble plump
into the box at the termination of the v. The fish
taken in this manner for the most part eels, OF
which almost incredible quantities are captured during
the Fall season. Their run" only takes place at
night In daytime they remain quiet IN the compare
tiyey deep pools of tn river. The work of catching
them however, is no siuecure, not SO much on ac-
coun of the labor OF the wakeuness and exposure
which it involves. In some OF the dark and snowery
nights of the season the game viii come INTO the box
so fast that the watcher who is often stationed there
with boat, scarcely remove them into 1t with
sufficient CELEBRITY. At other times there Will be scarcely
spoil enough IN lIlr Jokes IuI
ing them. II is only the larger apparatus aud dams,
however, that thus cared for-the smaller being
rarely filed to overlooking. Fishermen secure and
salt down some five or ten barrels Of eels during the
season, beside living entirely upon them during the
catch The larger operators make the business pay as
a single alone perform all the labor required
in taking and sailing the fish, We have heard OF var-
Gus illustrations of sital deXery, and have seen Ole
Bull manipulation of the violin, but could either OF
these gentlemen once behold the marvellous rapidity
with which some of the fishermen dives the cells Of
their slipping epidermis iuteguments they would
stand abasned, and ike the sable individual IN the
song Lay down the fiddle and the hoe" forever ait
erward. We are at loss to how il is possible for
any fish whatever TO descend 10 the mouth of the
river excepting il be few belsed ones, who delay
their return until rise in the river gives them secur-
" from the low water traps. From Marietta to
point perhaps a 100 miles up, excepting in few
places these eel-gins numerous that they must
entirely empty the river of ees. the continuing
constantly until frost and the fishing being terminated
only as we have already said by the All rains When
these occur the boxes taken up The walls which
remain under the water are very seldom disturbed,
and the next year with little repairs are just As good
as ever The cells packed in ullsized barrels and
many are sent TO Baltimore Quantities are purchased
by ses-poing vessels whose shippers are aware of the
delicious favor of this rather anomalous article
nrovision Lancaster Pa Herald.