New-York tribune., 1885-07-12
MIR. BLIVENS GOES A-FISHING.
LIVELY TALES OF THE JERSEY COAST.

LIVELY TALES OF THE JERSEY COAST. Q
fRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE ]
TUcKERroN, n. j., July 10.-The provender
OF 50 table dhote In NewYork may satisfy the anchor
eats only he may live. But the epicure who
lives only that he may eat must seek possum sop an
| taters In the Georgia upands canvas-back on the
Chesapeake. roast turkey In New England planked shad
the Delaware clans at Narraganset and baked blue
fish hcre To enjoy fully you must obey the Glassan
mandate. and first catch your fish, You charter thirty
foot catDoat. OF tho extreme "sknmiBg dish model
with huge SAIL and with crew OF n man and boy
the manage the boat. the latter TO comment
sorcasticay upon the fish you do not catch You pole
down the creek two miles TO the bay, through clouds OF
mosquitoes and green headed flies; then miles
across the bay and through the inlet 10 the open
Tho frcshens into gale, the and white
waves break tho boat the big canvas bellies
strains a the mast aud while one snnwale Is under
water by looking the other almost see the
centre board. mile to northward gulis are making
fierce plunges Into tho water. That means shoa of
menhaden: and u shoal OF menhaden means a hungry,
doyourlng legion OF bue1sh In close. pursuit Head
toward them. and with the lihes and. the foanng
water Kisses past more nercely the twenty fathoms OF
line are tau. "a bowstrng and the heavy slud hook
skins the surface like tho dorsa I'm OF shark. Now the
rulls are hand swish. Tho line is erkcd from
your fingers and out Ike mad until brought
up by the ceat to which. luckily. you fastened IT, Hand
over hand you haul In. don't that the spray Is
running your coihes There's "a nshIon the lnel No
matter n the straning pcorI cuts your fingers to tho
bone There's FISH the linel When he grabbed the
hook and ercd the limo from your fingers he weighed
hundred pounds When you got him hauled halfway 10
the boat bo weighed thousand. When he was within
boats length your aching muscles and bleeding fingers
were sure he weighed ton. But when he came.with
swisn and a nop over the gunwale. your miserable
spring balance showed him. 10 be only bare seven
FOUNDER. Never miadi you have him anyway. Better
k..s t.., rnato In. tha md
over goes the line again. and again II is ughcned by
something that pulls and whrls aud plunges, and finally
comes painting aud swapping and flashing Into the boat
until you stand knee ccp In scaly gitteriug mass ana
reluctantly though with bisterei neck. aching arms aud
ashed and bleeding hands, turn toward thoSinlet, the
creek and homo.
Bluenshng tho king OF Iongshorc sports. But some
people do not like It. They prefer shecpsheadIng. Cad
wallaier Blyens did lie doesn't now. lie came down
from Philadelphia last week, Cadwalader dl to teach
the shore people how TO fish. Philadelphian usually
can teach anything in the. world to anybody In the
world; except himself Cadwallader knew it ALL
Going the creek he leoturcd on IT, The sheepshead
WAS hs said a ganey ash when hooked. but shy ono
10 hook should get the line under the boat where
he you make noise, and when he titcs play
him like trout till tired out so when we got to
the bay Cadwaaer spent hour getting the boat fast
ened with bow and stern lines tho channel the
tide would carry his line under II. Then he baed his
paeut tackle aud threw The tide carried II under
80 far zeb sooy the other side OF tho boat gently
picked II up with gan hook. removed the bait. and
began twitcing 1t softly as a sheepshead does Cad.
waadcr wnked the exultaon he dared not speak. and
began playing hts fish. Leb took Cadwallaiers new
nickel sprng-baance aud fastened TO tho hook 70
y S b 10 thy % S very Saa Of Sa
and used brg that he weighed every sh with his own
scales. 40 Zcb worked the limo until Cadwallader
Thought tho fish tired out enough to pull in and
the hook swising up without even bait on
was big sh there he batci and cast again, and Zc0
played tho game Us before pulling so hard that
removed and put in s place little dead mum
box. Well. when that up Cadwaladcr looked bluer
than But he soon recovered himself aud told us
caught on the little ish In his stomach and how he had
simpy dragged out part OF tho shcepsheads breakfast
respect for tho inventive genius Of Philadephians.
II be hunger nsT than ever and I'll have him. So
he baed and cast aud Zeb caught 1t again. and hs time
go excited aud began pulling in like mad, zeb stuck the
hook securely into tho broadest portion OF Cadwaaders
trousers and let go tue line; and when 1t ghtened
Cadwallader went back to Philadelphia next day. and
is now. practising catching eel-pouts IN tho Famount
one OF tho most admirable features Of q summer fishing
other Information one gains Cruising OF
certsn village on tho upper part OF the bay an anti,
ask tho small boy wnosc Is ~why says .ns ne
This native not aegairea gena although A the boy
and makes the teacher teach according to his ideas.
"Teach 'om rcad'n m wrltn N 'rithmetlc" he COM
mands, "'n' dom wano hear o. no nonsense bout
grammar 7 hstoray r aljerbray r no sch stun. An
don lemme hear bout the arth ben roun nor no sich
tomfoolcry. An fog 'em; fog em wellI no foggin no
larnin l." This patron OF tho arts selects peda.
gogue after his own heart. and after few years
Snoggin N larnin" the young idea is prepared to
evolve such propositions that " Esaur wuz man
what rote abels an traded the coppyrte for bottle OF
potash" -
the conventional ashermans lie does NOT flourish IN
this yirtuous climate and all the tales told on the home.
ward cruise those OF s0berness and truth You hear
OF the man who was pulling In bass whom a bluehsh
swallowed II and was In turn swallo ged by shark
and all thrcc wore safely landed. You are told OF
another man who fell overheard and would have been
drowned only that he hal his pocket toad fish, which
he rubbed into state OF extreme imitation aud used
life prescrycr, keeping himself aoat six hours. You
listen credulousy to the tale OF the man who got ais
Into tho midst OF dense school OF meDhaden was
carried four hundred miles out to sea by thern and
wOnld have been swamped In storm had he not scoopcd
up Of tho fish his hat and squeezed enough oil out
OF them to still tho These and moro you i'm.
plicy believe. and after you have reached home and
Of tho bneush baked To turn twice your proper
load you the drapey Of your couch about you and
lie' down TO wondrous dreams that make Mulhatan's
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