The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-26

and null away, while the line slips over
the stern and glides into the water, scarce
Nv rippliug the surface. The captain
Of the net stands on the shore watching a
stick thrust in the sand. This is his tide
gauge, and when heoarsmen come to the
end of the land line they cease rowing and
await q signal from the shore. The
moment the water reaches the stick in
the sand the captain swings his arms and
the oarsmen let fall again Now the net
begins TO pay over the stern and line Of
bobbinr corks marks its progress. SteadI-
ly the men draw out in a mighty circle and
then sweep back again toward the shore.
line is paid out steadily, while the boar.
renewed of the weight OF the net, rapidly
approaches the shore. Before It's bow
tnnehes the sand half of the men are
waist deep in the water hauling on the
line. Meanwhile the land line mas oeen
passed around the windlass, and the mule
Is tramping around the circle Slowly
gatharinv II III with the assistance OF
half-a-dozen stalwart men. AS soon as
the brazil line is fairly ashore the end Is
secured 10 the other capStan OF Wlnu1ass.
which stands 800 feet above the first, and
the horse Is started The men oivlQe
their strength between the two lines ana
all haul with will MeanWhlie tns el1 Tut
has turned and the huge net bag slowly
Says away down stream. An hour passes
and the net is nearly all ashore Inc Dig
market boat is brought up close 10 Lae
centre of the bag and scores OF smarter
boats cluster about it and slowly close IN
80 the struggling. fish are drawn ln q,
shallow water. how ina1Y AZ liza 80
ssThousands.n Hundreds, "fset. YOU q
half there amt 200," and Thousand otner
remarks are made as the skliitul hsnef-
men bag the net and draw 10 the surface
a glistening and writing mass or herring
and shad, with here and there stfipeu
bass to relieve the monotony OF coioF.
Inboard go the shad, each one counted as
be falls into the boat while the herring
are LEFT to the last, or scooped cut OF the
way with stout hand nets, ii very numeT-
GUS.
4 DISAPPOINTMENT.
The first haul thiS year orougne up
sixty snad. thousand herring anu
eighty pounds of striped bass, known IN
the Delaware rs rockfish Last year t ~,
first haul netted over 400 shad and 1.v00
were caught during the first day. In the
second haul ON Tuesday the net brought
| nm a log and yachts anchor. Dotn Of
| which tore the net aud let out many nsh
only twenty shad being retained. An
| ebb tide haul was missed While the mel
WIS being repaired. At nye O'CLOCK OF
| Tuesday night another haul was made in
| the presence of hundreds or visitors and
only twenty-five fish were caught. Iney
sold on the spot at fifty cents each.
In Salem county the shadders have been
! busy for ten days, aud prices have
| dropped from $50 TO s25 per hundred.
s. 00O sbad day to Philadelphia for a
week. One Of the stories told in Salem IS
that New York firm has offered 70 buy
| 200 900 shad this season for picking,
| Two shad weighing over seven pounds
each were shown in Salem last week
| stories are told about ten-pound shad
but il Is seldom that one IS caught weigh
ing over eight pounds
Drift-net fishermen in the lower Della
ware are taking an average of one hun.
| dred shad to the boat every day.
The North River shad fishing, which
takes in the lower bay and Rarltan Bay
! is just beginning 10 be really active.