The Sunday morning news., 1891-12-06
ROD AND GUN.

An eight-pound salmon was exhibited
in this city last week, and it was
said that it was caught in Newark
BAY in a net belonging to Captain
George Mcdonald. 1t is supposed to be
the first caught in many years, though
there is legend that salmon were once
plentiful in both Passaic and Hacken-
sack.
A wild duck killed itself against a tele-
graph wire one night last week at Sand
Hill, Bergen county.
This is the season when swapping tur-
ties are ruthlessly snatched from their
winter quarters by men armed with
hooked noles. On Thursday M. Ryder
and j. Vines, of East Newark, caught
two. One weighed thirty-one pounds
and six ounces, aud the other ten and
one-quarter pounds. Gu the same
day another man caught twenty-six
FOUNDER. t
Cod fishing is excellent at the banks
now that position near the the boiler or
the bast is the most comfortable.
Lawyer Ramsay, DR.. Jacobus and Geo.
Post of Ridgewood got twenty-five
grouse end nine quail in one days shoot
ing in the Ramapo Mount aims last week.
Butterworth of Haledon, a suburb OF
Paterson, killed two bears last week in
the Pocono region, Monroe county. Pa.
One weighed $50 pounds.
C. NJ. Hedden returned from Sullivan
county last week with six partridges and
Kearny. who went with him, stayed
longer and returned with tweuty-four
pariridges and white hare, besides q
number of rabbits.
A pot hunter at Bernardsville took q
five mile walk with his dog and gun on
Thursday and returned with seventeen
rabbits, which he sent to Newark selling
them for ten cents each,
Mrs. r. H. Brientnall, Edward Spaeth
and DIR. N. Plndell returned from a shoot
ing trip in the south early last week and
reported excellent quail shooting.
Fulton Market, has 2,0U0 young
tench for distribution in Con-
necticut. New York and New Jersey.
These tench are an entirely new variety
of fish to American waters. The original
parent fish were brought over from Eng
Washington. D. c., of the United States
Fish Commission. These fish were
Matched at the United States Fish Coni-
missions station at Neosho, Me. Two
years ago twentv-three fish in number
were taken from the ponds at Washing-
wear there will be distributed SO 600
Young fish, the product of the original
| twenty three of two years ago. These
fish will grow to weigh two or three
pounds each, and are said to ce good
table fish as well as affording sport to the
angler. They prefer still waters to the
| running streams. more especially thriv-
ing in reservoirs. ponds full of water
weeds and pits from which CLAY has been
excavated for brick-making. They seem
also to do better in foul and weady than
| in clean water, and in broad and sluggish
! rivers than those which flow with con-
siderable velocity
| Drs. Julius Why and Reeves Fl. Iszard
| of Cape Msy City shot eleven quail
seventeen wild ducks and two rabbits IN
| two days. cunning.
The open season for wild deer closed QH
Monday. The deer have been very Scarce
! and but twelve have been killed in An
| lantic county. The sportsmen In tb8t
| vicinity intend to present a petition De
| the State Legislature asking that laW
be passed forbiddinG the killing Of d6tk
| for five years. Only in this way can ths
| be saved from extermination.