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the surf pounds and burrows and drives
day after day.
They know, therefore, just where to
drop their bats. If they feel that
their sinker is resting on a little sub
marine ridge they will draw in just
enough line to make it fall into the
runaway that they know is at its base,
or vice-versa.
Consequently they are just as uni
formly successful as the ordinary
angler is unsuccessful. Thus, MIR.
Morosini's sixty pound channel bass
was hooked and beached within three
quarters of an hour after he had ar
rived at the beach. In almost the
same space of time two years ago
he landed a twenty-pound striped
bass on the New Jersey coast
In one mornings angling he and
John Du Til beached more than TWEEN
ty-five bluef1sh weighing from ten to
fifteen pounds each off the Long Is
land shore.
Two other famous surf fishermen
are William H. Moynanz, now of Phil
adelphia, and Harry w Quick. Their
favorite grounds are from Asbury Park
south along the New Jersey beach and
they boast of catches of stiped bass
weighing well up into half a hundred
weight.
record catch that they made in
three days at Port Deposit, Maryland
still is a topic of excited conversation
in that little place on the Susquehanna
where the big fish congregate in WON
derful numbers. In those three days,
from Sept l, to Sept. inclusive, they
captured 1873 striped bass which weigh
ed altogether 1.061 pounds. The best
single days catch was rs fish weigh
ing SET pounds.
The mode of fishing off Port Deposit
is trolling The fish congregate in
holes and often there are more boats
than the water will accommodate. Some
huge fish have been taken there. but
1t is a place of frequent disappoint-
ments because rain anywhere in the
hills often discolors the fishing water
so that 1t is useless and impossible for
many days at time to angle there
Therefore the angler who tries Port
Deposit should be prepared for a So
Journ of at least a week to make sure
of sport.
Trolling for the big, striped bass is
practically the only method used in
another section where monsters are
taken by the few who know how--the
north side of Long Island sound from
Hell Gate east. The big fish that broke
Tim" Flynn was hooked thus. It
Deln2
rowed across the current when the
fish took hold His first rush was so
herce that before he could be checked
he had run out almost the entire reel
line. This gave him an advantage
which Mr.. Flynn could not overcome
with all his skill and after being play
ed for time the big fish turned and
broke the tackle.
He had appeared above water so
a ~ ezI.
and his boatman had an excellent view
of him and they agreed that he must
be fish that would weigh more than
fifty pounds. Two days afterward a
huge striped bass was taken in a
pound net off Whitestone, Long ISL
and, clean across the sound. The fish
had hook and trace in his jaws and
as Mr.. Flynn uses a peculiar hook, it
was easy to identify it as his. The
bass weighed sixty-five pounds.
Last year the trolling parties along
the sound were surprised by the sud
den advent of big weakfish ranging in
weight from ten to fourteen pounds.
Apparently there has been a great in
crease of these big fish, for where, ten
years ago, weakfish weighing more
than five pounds were uncommon
enough to cause comment, now catches
of these beautiful fish weighing more
than ten pounds are not at all unusual.
A huge fish that was taken while
trolling along the sound shore was
hooked by John O'Donohue of New
York a few seasons ago. 1t was a
tripod bass and 1t weighed fifty-two
pounds.
John Mcmillan Of New York took
forty-nine striped bass while trolling
in one day, the largest of which
weighed eighteen pounds.
Members Of the famous South Side
Sportsmen's Club Of Long Island had
unexpected sport with striped bass
early this spring in Great river. Two
eighteen-pOunders are recorded and so
many bass Of smaller sizes were taken
that the club adopted a rule limiting
the individual members catch 10 eigh-
teen fiah q day.
The tackle used IN trolling r. even
lighter than that used IN surf fishing
ana az the advanfafe lies with the fish.
The striped base angler cannot brace
his roo against bis body and hold on
while the nfb tires himself out towing
me boat. as % the tarpOn and tuna
anglers. Striped bass fishing ~ clean
cuf fRhfinR between man ana hfh.
vim ~ outside Interference The boat
Dsfp Gao o. little % help fhe anglef