The sun., 1900-11-25
POWER OF SKILPUL ANGLING.
Sso-Pound Fish Brought to Gan by Mr..
sChenck OF Brooklyn unAided.

AVALON. Cal. Nov. Is-One Of the most
remarkable angling tournaments on record
has just closed AZ this place, and Califonians
are confronted by the fact that the champion
ship has gone from California to Brooklyn.
n. Y. the high hook" being a wellknown
angler, Franklin s. Schenck. who comes 10
I Santa Catalina every June and fishes until
the middle OF September His accounts of his
exploits have in the past caused SO much good
hatured banter az home that this year he had
a photograph taken of every days catch during
the tournament Of the Tuna Club The'o
pictures were bound into one OF the most in
teresting collection Of angling pictures ever
seen and he proposes to show the photographs
to doubters among his angling friends.
The photographs tell the complete story
OF fishing in the southern Californian islands
One shows mornings catch Of forty or fifty
yellowtails, a fish that ranges up 10 forty
pounds. the rod record being fifty pounds.
taken by Col G. p Morehouse Of Newport ex-
President OF the Tuna Club. Another shows
a catch Of albicore and rock bass; third tunasi
but the chef d'puvre is n photograph Of a bass
which the angler took AZ the dose of the sea,
son and which brought him the ohamJ ionship
OF the word-a fish gigantic and so powerful
a fighter, that the event will long be remem-
bered. The big catches which preceded this
were a black sea bass, hv F. V Rider Of New
York. Secretary Of the Tuna Club. and 370-
pound bass taken by I. s Manning of the
Philadelphia Yacht Club. Mr. Manning's cap
ture was supposed To mean the limit of endur-
ance. the fish fighting the angler for hours
and towing his boat in such heavy sea that
more than once it was deemed advisable TO
cast on and let It go. But then came Mr.
Schenck with a sSO-pound fish
To the average reader these catches may
Ia,a Ia II, tA,a -
rally be assumed that so large fish was hauled
in with tackle proportionate To its size and
fighting qualities; but every catch was made
in strict accordance with the Tuna Club rules,
that all fishing must be done with rods and q
line not larger than n 24-thread or strand line
In other words, one not much larger than an
ordinary black bass line used in taking fish
Of from three to five pounds SO skilfully
did Mr. Schenck play the ss0-pound fish that
he brought it to gay in less than an hour. a
striking demonstration Of what constitutes
scientific angling and true sportsmanlike
methods Larger bass have been taken Last
month a eoo-pound black sea bass was caught
in the upper end of the Gulf Of California. but
II was taken with Il heavy hand line and an
outfit that might have been used for sharks
Harry Bates landed a 405-pound bass at Santa
Catalina, but he had the aid Of a companion
and so lost the record the rules demanding
that an angl shall bring his fish TO gun un-
aided, without breaking the rod
What may be termed the fall fishing at tho
islands has been 50 good that many members
Of the Tuna Club are on the ground, and IL
Is proposed TO have a winter tournament
which will be appreciated by the Eastern an.
glers who cannot reach the coast in summer
At the present time the Bay OF Avalon IL teen.
ing with yellowtails. T. S. Manning recently.
hr,,, ,,ht In tVAa "a form H.
fish weighing forty pounds For such sport
some English anglers pay 1900 or $500 q
season. thus securing quarter OF a mile or
50 Of some salmon river with few pools: and
catch OF a small number of fish running up
to twenty-eicht or thirty pounds is considered
good sport. Scotch and English fishermen
have tried landing yellowtails on salmon tackle.
and found that 1t was, in most cases impos-
sIble or If the fish was held, that IL was cues
ton Of hours OF fighting. The Ash is the en-.
hodiment of the hard fighter and never gives
ny the lsht until II Is aboard and even tnea
the writer has seen a thirty-pound fsh fing
it--lf out Of the barrel and overheard TO we'll
The, dogsed persistence Of the tribe was
well ilin.trated az Avalon hast season when
took up IT, station al the wharf and all day
long ratroncd the ground just below tn. sur.
face and not ten feet away til. wharf was
lined with fishermen provided with cod hand
lines aud IN one day th.s fsh wa hooked seven
uun,s oh 'acI occasion breaking the line by
tknullH "ntangling II, or by quick jerks.
fisherman took "a hoy's line. the youngster
hayins hooked the fish previously aud hav-
ing been nearly hauled overheard by tho vi
ciousness OF the rush When the FISH struck
the fisherman gave u line and IL shot out l50
l"et INTO VA" bay Then an attempt was made
to play II out by keeping IL IN shore. but the
cunning fish realized that II was losing game
and at once changed it, tactics and came at
the wharf with great velocity. winding in and
out among the piles until the line was thor
pughly entangled. then breaking II by Q vio-
m h.
eeveral hooks and pieces OF line dangling from
- mouth and Jaw like grotesQus bsaa6