Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-04

Therefore word. If you do not yourself know where to go and how to manage boat | skillfuily twill secure the services of an old fsherndn. Let him provide. the hooks, | lines and sinkers, or get his advice respect l ing them. Let him also furnish the bait, as he will know just what kind of bait is best | at the given place and time. We have ished
 at the reef when beach bugs, wrinkles and elams and even soft shelled crabs were despised. and whitefish pure and simple were the sine qua non of a good string of bass. See also that your man
 is the good sailor of good boat. While we lay at 8 reef the other day seven miles fir om shore the wind veered round and blew a hurricane from the direction whence we came. Heading therefere for shore and car rying all sail we rode the gale, now and then shipping enough water to make cousin from the West cling to the benches, and we
 struck the land by combination of wind and tide against us ten miles from our destins-
 tion. As the captain knew an inner channel we beat our way up among rocks, thus avoid ing the tide, and reached home fully an hour
 before the boat which started ahead ofus. Get
 good captain, therefore, pay him well and
 trust entirely to his judgment, not complain ing if you don't sail straight home. Get @
 captain also that will be interested in your
 catching fish or two and will not begrudge eyarY good sized fish that is not on his own
 hook As aword to the wise is sufficient, get 8 captain that will cheerfully bait the ladies'
 hooks. We now suppose you of, and with
 light breeze you reach the reef and anchor.
 It means 8 fine of fifty dollars if you are caught tied to buoy. You bait your hook
 and throw over the line. It is the best poli-
 cy to hold on to one end, and when your
 sinker reaches the bottom you raiso
 the hook 3 few inches The nibble
 of the fish is easily felt when
 you give him the line. Let him
 carry it short distance, give sudden jerk to hook him and in he comes, twitching and
 pulling like large kite in a gale of wind. One of the prettiest hauls we ever saw was
 made by lady, to whom it was a first ex-
 perIence and who at the first throw pulled in
 blackfsh on one hook and @ sea bass on
 the other. You may not have such red let
 ter experience, but don't be discouraged.
 Your captain has probably taken you there
 little while before slack water and then you can expect something besides cunners Now
 the fish begin to come in. See that fellow who has been of almost every day this sum-
 mer begin to dance around like the family
 cat on the Fourth of July. His family al.
 ready have so many fish at home that
 they and their neighbors are sick of them,
 but fish is not what he is after, as you will
 perhaps find if you have had hard luck. It
 Is the fun of catching them, an experience
 new every morning and fresh every evening.
 If you yourself are not lucky fisherman you
 are sure bO HAV0 uSu0rudu 5 LUCK, h "0L
 foot and hungry gut" There is only one
 expression which approaches a description
 Of your appetite after lying at anchor and fishing for several hours. He hit the mark
 who said "I am so hungry I could eat a
 graven image" It matters not what you
 carry to eat but have plenty of it. By that
 time, for lying at anchor is worse than sail
 ing, there may be some aboard who are not
 so hungry. To those who are seasick I have no consolation to offer. Nobody else will have Seasickness is like lovesickness and home. sickness, only worse. It is awful, but elicits- little sympathy. Should your party be small and you command the boat, you can perhaps get ashore, hut if you go with those who are after fish your case is hopeless. Don't attempt strike. You won't feel like kicking, but grin and bear it. Nurse your sickness: you may never have another. Con gratulate yourself upon being let alone for the present, the rest haven't time to con- gratulate you now, but think of the future and your friends ashore. For lack of words to describe this sensation will quote the story tsld by. an Englishman who, on his fifth day out, stepped. up to eommis- crate with fellow passenger and inquired; -stAren't you most through ?" The answer came. "I must be. have puked up everything now but my immortal soul" No one is proof against it, even though he haye,a cast-iron stonach- We have sailed the ocean blue and many time seen the rail lined with invalids looking for sea breezes, but while trying little rowboat this summer preparatory to purchasing her it came for the first time. I made the purchase and there are few things on earth for which have greater respect.
 But we will now suppose the fishing over and the lunch eaten. It will cost us nothing also to suppose you supplied with 50 pounds of fish. You weigh anchor and sail for shore, let us hope without a ''white-ash" breeze, arriving in- season and tired. Let us also hope that there is a small boy or somebody who likes to dress fish and who finds it an ever increasing source of delight as the darkness comes on to guess where the fins lie and risk his own fingers against the fishes tails. You will sleep the sleep of the i man who earns his daily bread and at the breakfast table declare yourself well repaid and ready to go again. c.