The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06
ROD AND GUN.


An eight-pound salmon was exhibited
in this city last week, and it was
said that 1t was caught in Newark
Bay in net belonging to Captain
George Mcdonald. 1t is supposed to be
the first caught in many years, though
there is q legend that salmon were once
plentiful in both Passaic and Hacken-
sack.
A wild duck killed itself against tele-
graph wire one night last week at Sand
Hill, Bergen county
This is the season when swapping tur-
ties are ruthlessly sDatched from their
winter quarters by men armed with
hooked poles. On Thursday M Ryder
and j. Vines, of East Newark, caught
two. One weighed thirty-one pounds
and SIX ounces, and the other ten and
one-quarter pounds. On the same
day another man caught twenty-six
FOUNDER.
Cod fishing is excellent at the banks
now that a position near the the boiler OF
the bast is the most comfortable.
Lawyer Ramsay, Dr. Jacobus and Geo.
Post of Kidgewood got twenty-five
grouse and nine quail In one days shool-
ing In the RanApo Mountains last week.
John Campbell, Frank Berry and Tnos,.
Butterworth of Haledon, suburb OF
Paterson, killed two bears last week ~
I the Pocono region, Monroe county "a
One weighed $50 pounds.
c. M. Hedden returned from Sullivan
county last week with six parrridges and.
n lot of other game. William Greene OF
Kearny. who went with him, stayed
longer and returned with twenty-four
pariridges and white hare, besides =
| number of rabbits. NJ
A pot hunter at Bernardsville took 81
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.
MIS-. r. H. Brientnali, Edward Spaeth
and DR. N. Pindell returned from shoot
ing trip in the south early last week and
reported excellent quail shooting.
Fish Commissioners Blackford, OF
Fulton Market. has 1000 Young
tench for distribution in Con-
necticut. New YORK and New Jersey.
These tench ale an entirely new variety
of fish to American waters. The orig ~ -
parent fish were brought oyer from hhk-
| land and placed in breeding ponens ~ y.
! Washington, d. c., Of the United states
! Fish Commission. These hsh we're
Matched at the United States F,sn S Ss,nr
! years ago twenty-three fish ~ nu,npet
| were taken from the ponds ~ WHSni III.
| ton, d. c.. to the above station; 30 LUIS US
| year there will be disfrtputtu % wy
| Young fish, the product OF inc of1k 1
| fweniy-three Of Two years ago. Lheso
| fish will grow TO weigh two or three
! pounds each, and are said @ &c q good.
table fish az well as affordiug sport g me
angler They prefer stiii waters a,.9,, to The
running streams, more espsStAiiy snrlv-
we and pits from which clay has been
| excavated for brick-making; They seeot
also to do better i9 fon ana J, w " than 7, n
rivers chan those which flow with conf
Drs. Julius Way and Reeves Fl. Iszardl
Of Cane Mav City shot eleven quail,
seventeen wild ducks and two rabbits in
| two days. cunning
The open season for wild deer closed on
4 Monday. The deer have been very scarce
and but twelve have been killed il Az
| lantic county. The sportsmen IN that
| vicinity intend 70 present petition to
| the State Legislature asking that a law
| be passed forhiddin9 the killing of deer
/ for five years. Only in this way can theg
DO saved from discrimination.