The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-19
ROD AND GUN.


ROD AND GUN.
The Fish Wardea Of this county, Mr..
Charles A. Schriner. Is well known
newspaper man, attached to the stan Oh
the Paterson Press and it was ne. doubt
less, who furnished that paper with this
fish news
The bed of the river below the Dundee
dam does not present a very pleasant APP
pearance at present. The long orouth
has exposed the bleak rocks OF the bot
tom aud the bed of the river Gun be
crossed with ease without wetsing the
soes of the SD oes. What water there is is
stored up OF night by the Dundee Water
Power and Land Company and used dur
ing the daytime. Very little has flowed
over the dam for several weeks. The con-
slant pouring of water over when the
river is high has dug out hole just be-
low the dam eight and ten feet in depth.
This hole is filed with water and at pres
enb several Thousand dead fish are float
ing on the surface. Most of these fish ar
suckers; there are few cells, but scarcely
any otper fish. The death OF these fish is
directly due TO a lack of oxygen in The
water. IL Is u we'll known fact that fish
require oxygen to sustain life as much as
human beings do; the flowing OF a stream
continually Hrales the water and supplies
the necessary oxygen. Boiled water con-
tains no oxygen anti fish will not live in
ing over the water supplies the oxygen.
AS there has been no current for several
weeks below the dam, and as the high
entertainments on either side and the dam
prevent the wind from reaching the
staanant water sufficiently to supply the
necessary oxygen, tne fsa soon used up
the supply and then they began to suffer
from asphyxiation. A few drops of
water occasionally Erickled through ORR
fees In the dashboards on the dam or
the wind above blows spray into The hole
beneath. For some time the fish could DO
seen acting in strange manner, fire.
euently seeking the PLACES where water
lrickled down. The cells held their noses
close to these places and seemed TO gather
some strength, but there was not enough
oxygen supplied TO them and gradually
they died, until some portions Of the
wafer are covered with dead fish. There
Is no doubt that lisa in other waters fire.
Quently die from similar causes, aud peo-
pie wonder what kills them. The fact
That no carp, fish which abound in the
river Just above the dam, are found below
it y more difficult TO explain, the habits
Of the carp nelng great deal ike those of
the sucker. Pickerel and bass began to
disappear some time ago in the lower part
of Dundee Lake and now It is very sell
dom that any of these fish are seen
These fish are supposed TO be gifted
with more intelligence than suckers, and
are not so apt TO cover Il dam. Ii they
do not remain long enough in the deep
water below the dam TO make Them suffer
for want OF oxygen, as soon rs this life
giving gas begins TO lessen, ptckerel and
BASS go down the river, whereas the more
sluggish suckers remain until it is too
late for them TO descend.
Four million six hundred and ten thou
sand young shad were placed in the
Delaware river at Bulls Island. in June,
by K B. Reading, for the New jersey
Fish Com missioners. The expense was a
little less than $780,
The law prohibiting trout fishing went
into force last Wednesday.
four pound bass was caught one day
last week by little boy who was ashing
In the canal At Boonton. The boy was
grandson of Enoch Hammond.
Crabs are plentiful everywhere, and
grabbing parties are becoming extremely
popular at the seashore resorts, and
especially at ManasQuan and Bay Head.
The reports from Barnegat Bay indicate
that wealkashing will be as good as ever
1t was in a few days. One boat brought
ia liz fish.
Jigglng wealrfish means catching them
by jerking blocktin squid up and down
in the water. Big weakfish Weighing
from five to ten pounds are caught III this
manner not only in tho bays but on the
fishing banks at sea.
The fishing notes man of the Forest and
Stream say that sheepsheads are being
taken in large numbers in the pound nets
along the Jersey shore.
Catching frogs with red flannel or a
red fly on light rod is decidedly artistic
work If the frog is allowed to take to the
water and fight for his legs Otherwise
1t is better to have stout rod and short
line and jerk him tar ashore
Pickerel seldom bite after dark, SO sell
dom In fact that many observers are pre-
pared to say that they never do. The
writer, however. caught a one pound
pickerei one evening, this month
while skitterina in the dark fer
bass with frog on the hook. Pickerel
in the day time will take almost any
moving bait, even artificial flies and
earthworns.
Fishing has been good at Greenwood
Lake for a few days. On two days OF last
week Fred Clark took forty seven bass In
twelve hours fishing aud Q. B. Donald
caught thirty-one ON July 4th, averaging
10 pounds each.
few DAYS ago some 1okers on Storms
Island, at Greenwood Lake. nailed u dead
coon III the top OF q tree on the island in
a life-like position, and then gave an
alarm that caused hunt for thu coon to
be started
Guns were got out. and the dead coon
was pcppered with shot, but still retained
its position in the tree, causing those who
fired at it to ''cuss'' their bad niarkmaif-
ship. Fred Clarke. the weli-known guide,
said that ne was going TO own the coon /,
and he proceeded TO climb the tree. His
disgust can be imagined when he got TO
the top aud found it nailed fast. Clarke
does not Ike to have the subject of coons
mentioned to him
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