The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-06
O AND GUN.

A Hope Creek, Salem county, shad fish
| erman caught n shad in two days fish
ing aud q rat ate that while he was wait
ing for the coming of the market boat.
Another fisherman at the same place lost
his net of 500 fathoms soon after begin
mug operations, and still another made
| only seven dollars in three weeks work.
The pickerel fishing season opened Mon
day. Pickerel are not highly esteemed as
a game fish and anglers do not care to
take them when bass can be legitimately
caught. but when the angling fever is on
they will be satisfied with almost any
thing, aud this week will find many ex-
perts at Hopatcong, Greenwood Lake and
u score of other places famous for pick
| srel fishing. In May the fishing is
remarkably good at Greenwood Lake,
aud strings of from one hundred to
three hundred fish to the boat can be
made at times, bnt the fish are small.
They do not average more b half u
pound In weight, Ii one OF over a pound
is rarely caught. At Hopatcong the fish
run larger and furnish more satisfactory
| sport, although NC such large catches can
be made. AT the LITTER place the fish are
caught by fishing deep with weighted
trolling lines and plain spoons OF the size
and shape of a teaspoon bowl. At Green
wood Lake the ~favorite troll Is u gilt,
| fiuled spoon an Inch in length, supple
mented with extra triple hookc and halted
with q small strip from the belly of one OF
the fish. The pickerel are almost invari-
ably caught on the lower set of hooks.
| Live bait IS seldom wasted on pickerel X
cept In fishing through the ice in winter.
North river fishermen are greatly exer-
| cised about the sbad catch. They say 1t
has been extremely Improbable thus far.
and the prospects are not bright.
DrumAsh have appeared on the coast
Of Cape May aud Atlantic counties.
Bluefsh are coming along. A few were
cauuht in Delaware bay last week and
T big shipments have been made to New
| York from Norfolk, where they are ship
ping weakfish also.
The shad fishing of the Delaware is In
proving daily, but the sturgeon fishing is
said to be almost a failure.
M Whiteseli, Of Salem county,
| caught a spent" shad last week which
measured twenty-six inches in length.
Good Judges said that it would have
weighed eleven pounds before spawn
ing.
William Roper. of Salem county, found
a wild goose's nest along the margin Of q
creek a few days ago and is now trying to
hatch the eggs under Il domestic goose.
The fishing season at the Adirondack
is backward. 1t was reported last week
that the ice on the lakes there was from
six to twelve inches thick.
Forest aud Stream avs editorially:-
'"rhe last Legislature of New Jersey sub
| tlJuIG " bhO ~ = y wv
a Fish and Game Commission of three
members. who have authority to appoint
Il fish and anne protector. and the pro-
tector in turn shall appoint two fish and
game wardens for each county, The law
also makes provision tor the appointment
of special deputy protectors upon the re-
quest of ten Freeholders, II such a mar
as Mr.. Charles A. Shriner OF. Paterson
shall be made chief protector, the New
Jersey fish and game laws will mean
something" This is undoubtedly true,
but unfortunately the State Protector
was appointed on April L. lie is Thomas
Meskill OF Morristown, and what his
qualifications for the Office may be are
unknown here.
A Danbury youth went trout fishing
the other day, says the Boston Transcript,
and ventured to drop "A sly line into q
posted brook. Soon the approaching
figure If the owner doomed up In
the distarce, and the Danbury youth
knew he had been seem. he took in
continently to the bushes. where he
speut a very miserable, two hours in hid
ing and caught q cold that Kept him two
days in bed. Meanwhile the terrible
! owner, who was not The owner at all. had
sought n similar refuge at sight of the
original culpfit, and not until his teeth
| chartered like a typewriter did he venture
TO leave the friendly but damp shelter
aud stink away from the scene. He was
an elderly man, aud his share in the days
sport resulted IN a four days rheumatic
limp.
number OF anglers visited the head
waters of the ~PeQuAnnock recently for
trout and met with little success