The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-30
FISHERMEN IN BIG LUCK.
MISUNDERSTANDING RUNs OF II
an DOWN EAST WATERS.


ar.,, so,oo,. or Cod ,no,, =, r,o-.-A
Rupo Catch In . seip, ,t block I.,n,d-
Thousands OF Barrels or Merr,nE Taken
at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Pisnty. Too
sroytSoroy. Nov. os.-Tb,y unlock cd. for
appenrnnoe in vast numbers Of .chools Of cod,
Ash In the ,ynterr Of Jamaica Raw has been
more than matched nil along the ocean shore
NJ Connecticut md mart NJ Rbode Is,nnd. For
tbreo Ueeks tho wators of R,ock Island sound.
right of Mystic. stonir eton. Watch Hin. and
tho island itself. have Teamed with goldfish
big and handsome fellows. too ma never be-
sorc In the asbino annual. NJ tbo coost
.Tbo coming Of III, Ash. RIGHT in the nick
NJ time nj that ,o,d , vcteran tar NJ this
mort. WAS n litt,o IN. b,ve,o.t Wind NJ sur-
nrIso nartv the esbormo, have cver RIM foul
or Ana tbev bavsn,t oot sptire,v over tho
,nrnr,eo ~ I, ,ot mt ,bov aro making INV
villa tho ann sh,no. all ,be sa,np. working
far al, thew arc worth. r. was a regular out.
.nd.opt Godsend of course ,bere arc ALWAYS
more or less eodasb. here and there one. in tho
water, along sbor. and about the Sound, but
that dom, have any hearing ON this grand
general round.up and SURPRISE party visi:.
Inc joke OF IL Is that NOBODY ever hea,u Oh
anything like 1t before. 1t was Just as big a
a.pmr's, 70 q o nn na" u,u,, . :" nO,n,"ua.,on
MS all the rest and there amt an explanation
InAJ uIb IL Anyhow All IueTC II W DG btlu
about n q, that une dav about half the cod
- '~' - -.
,snr n,. az ,s son ,a ana ronma .v.r .inc"
.,T,o fact "a ms, besoro their arrival ALL of
-. e.ha.m.n hod h..n ett,na an
reSu,.r f,i, Is erni,o for eoiasb off the banks to
the We'll, as it turned out. the
rsh suddenly all turned tail and came to find
u.s. instead OF our gong aleer .~nleh
was q blamed sight pleasanter all round,
though maybe in the END there wont DO a
k,eA. ',En. mol .',,n" ~ 800. - AL
about, instead OF kitinv on to the coast to hsh
IN aeoS ~ mut IN II I tha Mvs m t' KIND N, ~ work.
70 ana pas IN IN, ~, 1--we 49, a'1 ond rr.,t
deal moro comfortably. But it hasn't taken
Iona r., course 70 stoos the market rounl
here. and now there is a glut on fish, and
prices are way down.
Lot me tell you. there's been a rover of cod,
hsh taken along the shore In tho last two or
three weeks, and they wore as good as the
pest TOO VERY one " iar d "nu
half way fair crew could easily take in a deck
Is a fs II one one t Wae qu nS' another n II Thing. Pirices
n preEs 1t. and many a on load was sold in
S.w York nj the rate Of ST a barrel for prime
rsssh for n y load deiiyered Mt the metropolitnn
markets, 30 that the fishermen. unable to
inc or caurht inst cod enough 10 supply their
owe houseSold! need"
both By prcfessionai fishermen and by sports
men from ali parts OF the State. In little
NOR NOR tina snar ,os naii IN thSs smack nk Susie Of his
port. took 400 hsndsome cod with hand lines
In the waters S on Mo nisStfo f1snf f 1 Mss a saia 30
be one OF the finest catches ever taken in this
way noted along this coast. On the follow
s 4 o 1ay cin oh th Sonrsl bssSed 400 BIG ~ cod cod Tie
smack Ira and Abbie came in abont the same
Of little more than one days work off this
Shore Aifred Moves Thomas w. Ryley. and
Norris =. limit Norwich sportsmen. after
rrnS.s 81 tbpae ar Sonr bours in the cathoat
sonhIs' oaptured forty.two heavy 6sh and
nsgged sl1 ducks, me smack nste 5aa oddpt;
a few hours right of the Connecticut coast.
Tae deaf and dumb fisherman, Ambrose
n ILs ! I. Snot cs,boat ar The Mess Gronnd near
Re ms risEo1 Ga sDS n az siGb, -n w tbe w5ary;e nen az
SaM Iondon In a abort time he TOOK siytv.
four fsh that weighed 800 pounds. Horace
+, and Arthur Paling Of Pendieton Hill Jesse
cnd in n day,,s a.biina oT Watch Hill ijirht'
ste q. w colf,p H,, and ,,, Capt TN, El nathan s Bur an.
other party. dshing. Of the same point. on The
s = ,s day, took 500 o. fish s.: The catch xinl oxss picked
On another iay a gang of islanders scined a
whole school az Goldfish. handsome fellows.
risbt IN The snow- white crescent tbree-Tn;is
long bsthinS beach at Block Island. The great
nsh We're splashinr like porpoises in the shai..
Die were bathing three or four months ago. and
not a 1nnshot distant from he sbons and
DWELLINGS about the island basin. MANY hun.
dreds Of fish were Melted IN the great seine,
and with shouts and nautical songs the stout
isIapSers rolled their mammoth catch on the
smooth white beach. S.ater they bore the ash
ewoy In nv cars and vsaons n the fromes
N The Basin. said Ole O: The Fl ,bermen:
.sIt was the first lime In the history NJ the
,sIand thnt a seine full Of rod was drnueed -
the beach Of Block Island. for cod are aiways s
~ he fshed for in deem water we'll of shors
Rut tbie sea .on breaks Ali records and cod can
he csn1bf Ike hIackfish right mn 70 the rocts
eions the cnas;."
Cant CLARK of Groton. in his cattoat aared
no furfber than the tin Of Fishers Island. three
1n;les from home and there Allied his craft yyitb
ahnnt n hnndred spiendid great cod In r. + few az
6ouTs he had taken fab enough to sunniv everv
Ssmiiv in his VILLAGE for several Yeeks '''''
Codfsh. however' arc No more n%lentjfpl right
off shore than mackerel have been. said one
Sronipston fisherman: AN'0 ' y" "
..rhe watara of Rlock Island Sopnd bays