New-York tribune., 1895-10-13

BLACK BASS.
one on top When the three hooks are used they
strung separately and not in a bunch side
by side. is done when pickerel being tro,led
for
According 70 Mr.. Spauldng. the best bait to take
a good fat and delicate and consequently fastidous
black bass with is cricket; There are some
amateurs who will not begin to fish for black bass
until the ugly black crckes of the story large
enough to be used bait One day last summer
at Gull Lake. Lake George fisher with sense
enough to take this tip had string of twenty
seven plump black bass. while who fsheG
with minnows only got one Ash Chapters might be
written the bait that is good to catch black
bass with however The black bass is a gourmand
and al the same time most fas,idious.
A story is told Of a successful fisherman Lake
Hopatcong. who has made reputation for
absurd rig. but it takes the black bass. The
contrvance is simply piece OF maple wood about
as big d mans finger. Two fms of polished
copper attached to this little stick ana the
three treble hooks nailed with double pointed
tacks or course the fins act as wings. and
make the piece OF wood turn rapidly IN the water.
The who this odd contrivance merely
keeps casting out and reellng in He thinks that
the bass that take il looking FOR fight. other
experts do agree with Inn. as the black bass
fight, pickerel, for instance. by running under him
and ripping him up with their dorsal fin.
WHERE TO CATCH BLACK BASS
The taking of black bass is on until the end Of the
year. rather until the beginning OF tie new
year. but the practical end of the season will be
when the real cold weather sets In. Greenwood
Lake is good place go after black bass. Lake
Hopatcong is another good place, and fine
messes were taken from Green Pond only last week
The Delaware River Is another good place to find
black bass. About the only good place for free
biting black bass Long Island Ia Lake Ponkon-
kcna. There are lot Of lakes in Orange, Duchess
and Putnam counties where black bass abound At
Rye Lake, White Plains. and in Croton Lake
are many more trout than black bass in the Adron-
dack region. Black bass and piclere DO not ex-
terminate one another but it is penal offence 70
put piekerel in water stocked with trout and it
is almost as difficult to keep trout and black bass
gether as il would be to keep trout and pckerel in
small man on the landed proprisor who nil pof rf
4 let him FISH in his preserves Is to toss of a dark
vengeance is little slow but 1t is sure and inside
stocked preserve to tell why his brethren have dis
1t IS great deal more difficult to get rid Of pike
than IL is TO introduce them. A pond may be
drawn off and every tniest mite Of pickere Do
o1 Of al trout 'y M T for d Sed2e TO the eSs HS
alone on the trout. but on their eggs wcl. one
or ihe best lakes IN Putnam County FOR black bass
Y n ths sheet OF water, too Five miles east Of
hatonah Is Lake Waccabue filled with pickere and
bass. Within driving distance Of Mi!lerton. in
afford good sport in the way Of plcke1el a. ana "ss bass
hshhg Jusi now. Among the best Of these for me
Round axes skeye and GeT the Twin Res iAn are efa IN
no1 bNt sun not far from Millerton and
{ Sopake Lake Is getting a reputation for wall-eyed
The Of stripei-bass fishing are many. There
Is perhaps no hsh more variable in his tastes. 10
judge by the widely different luck different persons
have in trying TO take him. There are plenty OF
striped bass all around Princes Bay the south /
SnoIe s 90 gf S staten Island mostly in the shoal
captured easily by the expert angler around the
northern shore off Port Richmond ana clear around
TO Stapleton and South Beach The north shore
easier to reach. but there is hardy good fish
ing az the south shore provides Much depends on
the fisherman. on his knowledge of the striped bass
and Of the waters in which ne is angling. \ little .
to the west Of the Robbins Reef Light Is a good
ground for striped-bass fishing. To come nearer to /
New-fork City, Sunken Island Black Toms Island. I
find enthusiastic partisans One may catch striped
bass bass in the North River anywhere from off Ninety
fourth-st TO Yonkers on the side OF the
and on the west side all along the Hoboken Wharf.
one may walk along the shore and cast for striped
pass II Is strange but students Of the habits of the
striped bass is found in some parts up along the
Hudson and is entirely absent in others seemingly
just as likely. There plenty OF fine hsh Of this
variety in the bey just north OF Sing Sing
on the East River the striped bass is found most
College Point shores From City Island up to Nam
ing for the striped bass is mostly trolling on the
Chesapeake Bay where the striped bass is called
else that the striped bass does not like a muddy
bottom. He must have the ground under him grav-
low water. Striped bass weighing from fifteen to
twenty pounds have sometimes been caught where
more frequently caught al night. good ateurs
moonlight night the best time to FISH
for striped bass
one other thing has been logged down in the an
ials OF the science OF striped bass fishing and that
5 that II is useless 10 fish for them where food is
after bright moonlight night: they will
to have had their I'LL and be In no condition
o bite sharply This fact is true also of biuensh
weakfsh and wall-eyed pike Black bass bite best
BASS except such less than eight inches in
ength. which must be returned 10 the water as soon
ss taken from H.
THE TAKING OF SEA BASS
There Is much sport fishing for sea bass and here
90 special knowledge is a great advantage Some 1
lines a good fisherman who has found wreck
n other point of special vantage and raked in a
inc haul one day cannot pick out the mark
he next day. and utterly falls to bring home the
econd day the heavy basket Of the first day Sea
PASS are particularly fond Of some Old wreck.
The barnacles grow thickly and side always
nords protection from the tides Here is the
lace TO catch the bass. There one OF
hese old wrecks down Rockaway a year or
wo ago, and the sea bass and blackfish that
aught about II were the marvel OF old fishermen.
= a sea bass fisherman, found IL by chance one
ay and came home with such catch that his
riends declared he must have done his fishing with
silver hook. The lucky man protested he had
oi been so lost 10 all sense OF sport. and promised
0 conduct his doubling friend TO the new fishing
round the next day. The fortunate fisherman had
aken all sorts of bearings but could not quite get
the old wreck again, and 10 this hour the friend
eleves in good markets for unlucky fisher
1en than in tales OF sunken wrecks. difference
ten feet In ones bearings will utterly lose you
ar as this lucky tunbng on the side OF old
aited hook dropped down to leeward OF wreck
ghere the barnac,es and the sheltered water have
ttracted a colony of bass. Will be rewarded
1st as YOU can take them off your hook there will
e new vctims