The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-09

cannot give decided preference to any
Down at Morehead / ate nothing but
fish. corn bread and coffee, and | call that
living like lord. We hired a boat large
enough to carry a fisherman's galley and
had a man along to take the fish right out
of the water, cook them, and serve them
with hot coffee and crisp corn bread
The salt air and the zest of the sport
gave us appetites that kings might envy,
and under those circumstances the fish
you are eating at the moment are the
best.
IF you insist upon it / will make three
selections, which appeal to me, but there
is no best fish, where all are so good. For
broiling about sunrise-mullets; for
baked nner-sheepshead-for pannlng-
Currituck white perch. l could no more
tell which 1 like best than l could say
which of my sisters l love best. When a
man is fish hungry the commonest thing
that sports fins is best to him.
"The best fishermen I ever knew are
W. L. Kennedy, of Lenoir county, and
Tom Martin. of Durham 1t is hard to
say which these fellows used to like
best, fish or fishing. They went early IN
the morning and staid all day, and did
nothing else but fish. That's why they
didn't have to lie about the big fish that
got away"
Major Henry Harding, another of those
young fellows of $685. says his choice
fish is the mullet, though adding that the
majority of people hereabouts prefer the
fine white shad that come up the Tar in
the spring. But plain North Carolina
behring's are hard to beat" said the Ma
jor. Il remember one Spring | was rid
ing along a swampy road IN Beaufort
county Water had cut runs across the
road and filled them with herrings /
came to a run where an old man was actu-
ally dipping behring's out of the road. He
had big pile beside him, and replied
to my inquiry that he had caught thou
sand. A little further down the road
saw another fisher who was very much
engaged. A colored woman had tied
her skirt up around her waist so as to
form a bag. She had bent young ash
sappling to a circle and tied her under
skirt to it, making an useful if not ortho-
dox dip-net, and with both skirts doing
valiant service she was raking EN- in
Spanish mackerel and Grindle Creek
pike" said Senator A L. Blow, Colonel
Isaac A Sugg and Captain j. j. Cherry
and simultaneously. "Grindle
Creek pike" continued Senator Blow,
may be unknown to fame, but they de-
serve as much as a man with an easy
You catch hold of the head
and pull out every bone Then you have
something rare-something that will heal
a family feud of forty years standing"
Mayor Whedbee endorses Spanish
and recalls the fishing expert
ence of his life many years ago, with ex
Congressman T. G.. Skinner and Wilson
Hollowell, of Perquimans. Major Whed
bee embarked upon a fishing expedition
in the vicinity of Mays Head. The party
fished one day, catching 1,450 fishes of all
kinds, classes, colors and previous condi-
ton of servltude.
1.-The most popular fish in North Caro-
lima or anywhere else gravely announced
Colonel William A. B. Hearne, lis the
sucker There is no best place for fishing.
That idea was simply Waltonic magma
ton"
d. T. WhicharR who has the patience
and perseverance of the true fisherman,
the supremacy OF sleeps
head in his interior economy.
In conclusion, / wish to protest against
the use of the word fisherman" l have
used it in the preceding lines, but only
in submission to custom. Fisherman" is
unsightly, untrue. All who fish
are not fishermen. 1t would be just as cor
rect and desirable to say, doctorman,
lawyerman salorman or hunterman. For
the sake of graceful phrasing let us say
Fisher"
PAUL r. OUTLAW.