The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-09
SEA FISHING IN AUSTRALIA.
The Fish are Queer, But the Fisher
 mems Luck is Familiar to An glers the World Over.

See n:hins is the Alpha and Omega of most fishing in Australia We leave Sydney harbor about midnight in 2 small tug. so as to Dc Now we are out between the heads. and at last chilly dawn creeps over the sea. We are M rsoS rsst t too erosdsas ,sa to the rollers. and it on deck and find the lines we left neatly ccIled in corners over night. The two deckhands of nnuliet yellow-tails and squid. We are ready. and our eight leads go almost to- gether over the side. all on the same quarter. so that the lines may stream clear of the tug and of each other. Down they go. and stiil down a good forty fathoms. and the moment ment or two ns.sss ena sens soiu ons on t. ,n,n mo
 good fish, which is hauled and played on the thin Tine with. great care and patience. and seven pounds weisht-a handsoms enough ash
 wrong color by it's oaptor and his Aus.
 The disoontented one seems in luck's way for @ no S sooner hSs he again Saited his hooks and heavy lead--than he is once more nght- ing with an even larger nsh, but the line shesrs away ominously near the surface. '>and indeed seen that one of these white- e-bellied shovei-snouted brutes has both his hooks. But sae t is sasTs is m
 the line between it's teeth. and it is at last lifted bodily on the deck. five feet and more
 The first fish that I am destined to catch
 in these S ssnss waters s M curious in original. reminds one of nannysoat, and 1t Sae Ssn Wsrs sasa ssnf huge $ nannygal. but more valuable on account of its invariably indicating the presence of a big my nannygal than onue or two of the party in- stantly haul in their lines to see that the baits are right. and that a good opportunity mi not he nc n one spot. Tho Pacific is too deep. the ground too rough. the sweils from the south too On the contrary, we drive with the tide over the reefs kind of schnapper battue. and are thus enabled to go to the fish when they will not come to us. Good schnapper now caught on all sides and must say that my first really heavy schnapper warrants all the hopes that had based on a somewhat long cousin. the red bream of the English channel.
 That is one kind of Australian sea fishing. touch if this account is to claim any measure of completeness. These are the harbor fish ing and the rock fishing the former for black @ bream hat-head. and such like the latter for srouper. That is to say. you fish for grouper and catch leather jackets. just as at home for pollack and capture only chads. The har- bor fishing is chiefly delightful on account of the beautiful. peaceful surroundings of the -boisterous, bold. attractive with the at tractiveness of somnambulsm on the ball of St. PauFs. Tne ieuReS are narrow ana kup- pery, and the fall Is sometimes fifty or sixty feet. and at the bottom is a cauidron of surf with many sharks in attendance. Nirvana lies that way and unless you are colonial born and add to the patience of a Walton the so- ber-footedness of a chamois. you are apt. to find your Nirvana somewhat soon. When hooked the grouper givee excellent sport, par ticularly as you are balancing for dear life
 like a Gibraltar ape in an east wind but they are less often hookew than leather jackets
 miserable pirates with skin that will defy anything short of Kropp razor. The one bait for this rock fishing is known as 'sungevoi.
 q curious ehcinoderm. if I remember rightly, with an interior like a poached egg.