New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-21
A TALK About FISH.
An oIp.TIME plsui.EHAv INDrLGDS ~ REMIS.

iScL%C;S.
ayes sad o.i "To:a" Cladv! Il. n veteran boat
MAJ, f., t'r.I;I AID nfh G-.."r .. Fui'p Market
~. tire Eay give, IA" boy, good sposi thi year:
tn wcd'.'sh Inc and l"n"v and Few SHAY
t,c p,.id striped laes have been caught besides
coOd nunb.r Of l:''c pan fellows. W"'v' got 10
have fv4t ba.orc yol car h. sure Of b!e ba',. and
t.cn cones tie topI )tci %! pole and rel port. II
could Oh, l." Il. snltlc III a Loaf Is | once Wa.
whcI wt Used 10 run lines Tor the Black lall h!d
other ships ! could pick UP many Lvc"!olla: note
~ ttn- little pari. Of two or three down tlc lhv.
Int YOU I'vc got 81 and cum,r, and don't iccl
safe pulling bout sXtce:. or eighteen miles IN hot
Gather, that past cn;y.
~! D0rpH. "hp became famous Al tic oyster
trade so.Hc year. 1r!3rc h9 died. most expcr;
isi'r!n1n, he u.'d 10 MAKE >'aci, Of uon'y IN u"
fishing season. out OF The swell Chaps who engaged
him year after year. II Gd seem a. II he col.d catch
More ls than any man on the river. used ~ have
good luck myself. YOU can remember When you
played around tI"sc wharv'> but luck In anything
depends good deal upon what sou hnow. sid and
Il fc* OF Us used to make study
Of itor rather We used 20 remember what cal,o
along In or boat work. We know the tune o. tide
and depth Of water to a Certainty AMI cOud tell 70
the length Of d ninciccn.i)ot boat where To drop
KlilrX In dozens Of spots that lad ralgd by
tres or houses in jersey. Staten Island AID the hedges
IN the Bay. II was not an unusual thins " lie
among fleet OF boats that didn't have a bite while
We would pull in twenty-five % q hundred Gsl Yes,
a good many OF the old grounds knochcd ont w
the scores OF towing prUpclicrs that around tho
har.or Puttcrm. Channel. between ay,ith BROOKLYN
and Governors Island Was once splendid spot for
wcakfsh, and used u catch big drums often
weighing fifty 10 seventy five pVand, then, too.
Thirty TO thirty five years ago You could lie few
hundred feet from the BATTERY wu at night and catch
dozens o. wc;isish weighing from two TO -four pounds
each. You could h,rily lie tcrc long enough %
cut up seddcr crab for bait. even IL the FISH weren't
scared away. Thls has been good isl. summer
Iuci,h have been IN unusual steady supply and con.
siGcrng the extra Ice expense prices have been reason.
ablc."
(which is considered the most popular saltwater
hshl'
IT'S hard to tell. Every sort has its spec al Gus.
toners. hut most buyers, IL they can't get what thoy
ask for will take another Some customers very
particular. Soie viii aot have anything but d well
swimming in smuck's well amidships. Another viii
pay for New HcdfoIL GELS than for Long Island
or New jersey there Is marked difference In tho
favor Of the small headed Eastern ones but Canarse
Shrewsbury River arc 6oOd enough for the sunday
mOruns breakfast tables whore they gre q conven.
tona dish. Fish OF god balng size lattcrly much
sought fo: tits hcartcr when thus cooked. and goes
around further than when fried boiled. II Is quito
interesting TO notice the craving for FISH which peopo
who belong here have when they summc-ng away.
have orders 1t times 30 pack seven or eight pound
bluchsh bass. two three Rood. sized weakhah
In ice ic butter tub. 10 be sent to distant country