The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-09
ROD AND GUN.

Sbad are now belng caught in the Della
ware as far ND as Sussex county
Mr.. James ID. Mabee, a New York
Times composi.or. who has many frlvnis
in Warwick, n. Y, has taken De Graw's
Willow Point House at Green wood Lake
for the suminer.
RarItan shad are now being taken By
fishermen. The shad found 10 this stream
are said TO be tue most deleceaols OF the
tribe.
White perch are biting freely In the
Raritan river be.aw the dam.
Shad sold for si0 a hundred along The
lower Delaware lass week
a devil hSh four aud one haif feet in
length came ashore at Atlantic Highlands
one day last week.
Several whales have been seen OIL the
shore at Asbury Park within the last ten
days.
Frelinghuysen township, Warren
county. will be bankrupted soon II The
officials continue 10 pay the bounty OF ten
Genus upon each grounding brought 10
the collectors Office. dhe boys are bring
ing them in dozens and 500 mas been paid
out in ten days.
A solitary wild duck lives in Peter
Coouer Hewitt's trout pond, at Ring
wood. and is disturbed four times a day
as the trains pass the pond. he Is saIe
from the gum, however, and seems TO
realize ii, for he has remained there Tor
ELK Httko.
The sussex Game Protective Associa-
lion now numbers some OF the most
urominent citizens of the county. The
provisions of the bylaws exclude all non
residents Of the State from nshing or
hunting in this section of New. Jersey
without first obtaining a license Tor such
purpose. The fee for license has been
fxed al S.. The association Is doing much
good.
Cape May. =,
Porgies have come to market in small
quantities. and several lots OF remarkably
fresh looking biuehsh and butternsh have
been received.
The West Jersey Game Protective Soci-
ETY. has taken courage since the uovernor
failed to sign the bill repeating the
charter of the society, n Agent Platt
has distributed about $50 quail. II was
originally intended to put ont LOU TINS
Lewis ". Morford and Charles ".
Shaw. Of Newton, are credited with
catching tnirty-oue trout, weighing
twenty-niue pounds, in Black brook, near
Vernon, Sussex county, IN a days outing
last week.
A rural exchange prints the following;
"Our fishermen should not forget that tt
Is illegal In this State 10 Kill trout less
than six inches ong.-ETchdHge. we
wouldn't be afraid TO wager fresh Dela-
ware shad that the man VINO was lnstru-
mental in having this law enacted at the
last session of the Legislature would be
Que of the first TO violate IL. A speekled
beauty, six inches long, is entirely too
tempting for any fisherman to again as
sign to the water.
1t is Just such ignorant scrloDlln2 as
this that brings our game and nsh laws
into d~isrepute. Tine six inch trout law
has been on the statutes for years. A six
inch trout does not weigh two ounces
and the penalty is slo for catching or
having ia possession. A man who would
take trout smaller than six inches Is as
much a criminal as he who taps a Till.
The big trout pond on Cooper q
Hewitt's Ringwood tract Is nearly nail a
mile in length and lies along the Ring
wood branch Of the Greenwood Lake
road. II cost $1,000 to make this pond,
and the chief item of cost wassan elabor-
ately constructed dam and screen. a
large brook and several smaller ones
pour cool mountain water into tals reser-
voir and the trout enjoy it immensely
On any calm evening the Dig trout can
be seen leaping after hies and Insects.
The pond, like all OF he vtlet streams on
the tract, is carefully guarded against
poachers. and stunps preventing success
full use of a net in H.