The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-21
ROD AND GUN.

Yes, it is open season for trout fishing in New
Jersey, but the n most enthusiastic angler would
banks are covered with q foot or two OF snow
and the ponds not yet unlocked from their icy
viii be caught until @ wei along in April The S fish
seldom take bait or fly until the snow water has
found its way to sea-
Sixty-two cans of brook trout and large
quantity of fresh water shrimp we're sent TO
Sandyston, Sussex County, recently from a
hatchery at Caledonia, N. Y, to be placed in
ponds and streams upon j. j. Van Sickles
property. A club has leased the waters and
purchased the trout
Subscriptions are being taken up among the
sportsmen OF Hackettstown to purchase a large
supply of live quail to set free in the neighbor-
hood in view of the reasonable fear that the
deep and crusted snow has destroyed most of
the birds which escaped gunuers last year.
Pickerel fishing is prohibited by law until
May /.
The new game law, which has received the
Governors appreciation, has but few changes.
Governor Werts knows all about shooting and
fishing, and probably looked at the provisions
of the law closely before afixng his signature
A digest Of the new code is as foliows:-
European grouse or European pheasant, pro
tected for five years from the passage of this
act; male birds of the above species can be
killed from October 81 to December 1e small
birds generally are protected at ali times. but
game commissioners may issue licenses to collect
for scientific purposes. 1t is forbidden to capture
deer or game birds by means Of traps snares or
nets, except that Incorporated associations may
trap such animals or birds alive for the purpose
of preserving them alive during the winter, pro-
viding that they be released again ia New Jersey
not later than April 10 the following spring.
Black bass or Oswego bass may be taken be-
tween May go and December l.. trout between
March and July 15 Black bass measuring
less than nine inches and trout less than six
inches may not be taken, except for stocking
purposes.
Deer, October 14th to December 15 suirrels
September 14th to December 18th, quail and
rabbits from October 3fst to December 16th
ruffied grouse from September Both to Decern-
ber 16, woodcock the mouth of July and from
September Goth to December 18th; English
snipe, March and April, and from August 18th
to December 10th; reed birds, rail and marsh
land ployer, from JULIA 21st to December 18th;
piunated grouse and wild turkey, from October,
3lst to December 16, hen birds Of the European
partridge.
The recently enacted law preventing the use
of nets in Barnegat Bay has raised 3 howl of
rage from few seine holders on that stretch of
water, and they threaten to string the outer
shore above and below the inlet with pound
nets. country correspondent OF the Mount
Holly Mirror says that there are 1900 families
dependent upon net fishing in Barnegat Bay for
twenty families he would have been nearer the
truth AS for pound nets perhaps there will be
something done about them this year which will
alter the views of the threatening fshermep
but that is another story and it is not likely thai
all the net men In, and around the bay could
purchase more than two OF three pound outfits.
After getting them they would find themselves
at q most inconveniept point for shipping fish.
A pound net Is of little use to its owner unless
he is located Within "a mile or two Of raj ilroad
or steamboat wharf.