The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-28
Fishing in BTaIton.sA WaItonIan
Paradise.

EdIdulsCS
Letter from n. B. Squires, Of Sutton, In Yves.
ton Democrat
We are now enjoying the fish season at
Sutton. The shoals seem TO be well
filled with the tnny tribe. Elk is Ger
tainly a magnificent river for fish, on &C.
count Of their great variety, size and
flavor-the water being so pure that the
tish are healthy, and SO clear that they
can be killed with gigs, spears or lilies,
at from two 10 ten feet below the surface.
We spread our tTot.lincs about three
weeks ago, and caught large number Of
large red horse and jack pike. These alo
the early vstieties. The red'horse Is .
beautiful fish, weighing from three 10
twenty pounds, and Its length is from six.
teen to thirty inches. The flavor
OF this fish at this season Of the year
is fine-not being surpassed by any
other, and it IS clear OF bones. The
Jack pike is a beautiful spotted fish,
more slender and much more compact
than the red.horse. It ls generally
from sixteen TO thirty inches in
length, and weighs from two TO
fifteen pounds. 1t is q fish Of excel.
lent favor, and is good all the year round.
These varieties, together with red and
white suckers, are now playing upon the
shoals or spawning. The suckers are fish
Of excellent flavor, but full Of bones, so
that they are difficult to eat. The bones
appear TO be tied up in small punches,
and are as fine and sharp as cambria
needles. This variety becomes soft and
spongy in July and August, and arc not
then considered so good. Then we have
the large blue pike, beautiful fish from
twenty TO fifty inches in length, and
weighing from fivslto forty pounds. This
is strong, active fish, which bites at a
hook readily when baiLed with q live
club, and is often killed by the giggers,
He is king OF the Elk, living upon suck.
ers, red.hOrse, and smaller ttsh. He Is Of
fiue flavor, and good all the year round.
he stays in the deep, shady waters, ex.
cept 10 spawning time, aud when seeking
his food. Then we have the white and
black perch. These are excellent fish,
clear OF bones, and good ali the time.
They are also ready 6iters, and can be
caught on line baited with clubs,
and they can be killed with the gig. We
also have the blue and mud catfish, the
carp, eel aud sunfish-all excellent Varle-
ties, and ready biters at baited hooks. The
river is lighted up every night with
torches, and giggers are earnestly looking
out for the fish. 8Ir. Jonas F. Lawrence
gigged blue pike in the mouth Of Little
Otter last week, weighing tWenty.eight
pounds. John Adams caught perch on
his trOt line weighing five pounds and one
ounce, Jacob $. Hyer gigged q perch
weighing five pounds. DR.. Newton and
]. S. Hyer caught about ten red horse and
perch last week, in one day, weighing in
the aggregate fifty pounds. II. b. Hum.
phreys and Thomas Dillon caught in two
days, on their trot line, twenty.nine red
horse and jack pike that would have ag.
gregated one hundred pounds. And from
all quarters the girls and boys are carry
ing home excellent fish, and yet the good
fishing season has not fairly commenced;
but from this until the dark moon in the
month Of June, the time for speaTing and
gigging will be at its zenith.
BY the way, We have some frstClass
giggers, among whom will name Messrs.
John G. Humphreys, E. D. Camden, Cap.
tain Taylor and ]. s. Hyer.