The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-04-01
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Herriag Twelve Feet 1.s~s-Ar,,aciai |
sAsA castwre In the VWW~s ssstes.
"D'ye mind that 2" said 0ravcsend Bay |
fisherman. making a frantic grasp at some
thing In tho air
What p asked tho reporter
Shad fios," WAS tho reply. When them
hios shows up. ye may know tho flsh Is about. !
an they're the only kind O. flies that's well |
come. It's just as good ~ dollar bills to SEQ
them come fiyin along. Yes. I've followed
shad hshin' for many year. and some years
ago stuck to II regular-that Ia. followed
tho Ash uD the coast from Florida. One Of
the best places II the st. John's River;
October and November Is the time there.
70 see, tho fish gradually work IN
along the coast, "a the water gets warmer.
and roach New York about this month. so ye
can follow em w and ship by steamer TO New
York all winter WAS sayin' the ~. Johns
River was II big place. SO 1t IL for fish. but tie
hard on nets. Ye see. on the south side Of the
mouth OF the river thcres sand heap called
Mayport. / reckon because they have May
weather there all the year round. Tho settlers
there arc all Italians from Minorca or some scch
place. and are all Fishermen, mostly shaddcrs.
and natural likc they don't invite no opposi-
ton. The second night we hauled there some
of EN- cut the nets. and the next day the Jack
bvuNtlC StcuIHcT Wuheu tfTOueu uuotItf Vnu
nigh on TO cleaned US out: but we stuck and
made a good thing OF 1t. In them days you
wanted to stand In with the steamboat
men. and / reckon the old man fixed
1t. and 1t was caution to sec how
them boats would como down the river.
boat when she wasn't fixed steamed right
ahead. dldn'ttur out for nothin' nor nobody.
but tho others would come down as II they
were beatn' nRin the wind. Ye see. there would
be perhaps twenty nets in two miles stretched
half way across the river. and the pilot would
have 70 keep a-jammin' to port and starboard
continual to clear 'em. The pilots or tho mate
or the stecrers didn't make anythin'. 10 they
commenced a-swearin' at Yellow Bluffs where
fishin' begun. and kept 1t IN till they made fast
at Plottown. We always know'd the steamer
was comm by hearin' the cussin' round the
bend. The steamers stopped there twice Il
week and took all our shad TO Fsrnand dina. and
from there camo direct to New York by the Old
Shad nets ia often half mile long and in
Is Setsp Thsyre nothn but long senss
corksd at the tor and weighted at the bottom.
,he mss mesh. Just large enough to prevent .S tho
net is rolled on . big wheel on the beach; In
Florida we used to sometimes run the net In on
acoupie OF man -eater sharks. and ye'd thought
they'd taken contract to break up the bust
When the ishn SUCKED up ip in tho it. JOINS
we made for st. Mary's. and generally January
w wsuH n.ht US pota atom
side up the Carolina coast and that's the time
shnd is fat: their tails actually get swollen out.
folk and then Delaware Water Gap. and by the
first Of April were at op up the Hudson. Now
eggs are, sometimes dropped u hundred and
saveni yiive miles above New York city. and We
called roe shad: when they come down after
spnwnin' they're poor;
| in tho Hudson. What's the biggest shad ever
saw Well now. about hero Pye seen an eight
beats the world; 1t amt exactly a shad but is
one OF the "a family and down there they eat EN-
mullet land they're a llsh for YOU'D. and had
fash Just like u sheet OF silver and the next
big 9H Of tore =. Ti hs wsr
ton, mangrove roots and all. and in less than
no time We had the tarpon ON the beach. and
shaa only; I'm , sisse% IN i i wasns nIFh on 70
Jumps: t5o whole scale q big r. Tie ralm 81
the scales aud they brought 81 apiece as curl
about rss5 all The hsnas %"ss
fine. too; but only one or two are caught a year
ana mostly on the cur 500 OF the state though
The fish SO hisIiy Iauded by the fisherman is
scientifically known as the Mrgalops thriss"i,ies
twelve feet in length. They are allied to the
shaa.dt;;-Rsporter .,,o, o.. ,,,.
the iishsrman. that I've cnught in south
AmeriSs that Is as big CURIOSITY! IT,, US the tar:
! ever see was up the Rio Negro, I'd shipped
in trading sch1Gns ,r and half the GREY Ven,
| "A 4,
While iI they they Would up and shoot dish. One al
we s
cry one to keep still. and the next minute lot Y,
that direction, II had struck something as i
was seen rmshin' away through the wster
and hour '0 wEss the s.sL n S "' q,
" '4ss :ema.h 1s TX. E E:s tn ;A wal
couldn't take 1t in and at last they sunk
Wafer e and en soHed f e" n '" T
natives told some curious yarns about it. 40
when 1t took a fancy, and walked away over
land. feedin' on grass and other truck. Just Tx,
% ff ike u r Sn TSey TAX :ars
their ynung in queer WAY sS too. In ..a
S as "% %p they
hoycrin over tho mothers head and whsi
hard preseed she opens her mouth and in the
whole brood. It's Kind O. queer. but I've see eel
snakes do the same thing.
he Of sh sHSS
sight worth secin: I've watched en- on tn
yon "o S oat aons and sss en- au anasr III
boat every ono looking like coal Of FIRE. Yes
sdh ys sE Vs to s Fsa
times = So s Cloud S q a:aostn owe
the IKE. they call It. hut most old 1shermel