The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-05
FISHING AND
FISH ERMEN


The tide to-day will be right for high
water fishing at most of the nearby
salt water drops between noon and 2
p. m.
Salt water fishing around Savannah
is now about reaching its normal
standing. Fresh water fishing, in the
rivers forty to fifty miles away, has
been rather poor for couple of weeks
possibly owing to faults of the an
glers more than to those of the fish.
No great amount of rain has fallen
for more than a month. Bream and
red bellies" are bedding in early
June. These fish bite never so well
as when they are bedding, especially
on low water. But fishermen from
the city who have tried the Ogeechee
waters aver that the fish will not bite.
One angler who went up from the city
a few days ago spent five hours in
casting flies, and got for his pains six
little red bellies" averaging two
ounces each. He says he'll try salt
of the season.
And yet it is a fact that a number
of pin hook fishermen on the Little
and Big Ogeechees are catching beau
tifuI blue and "copper-head" Dream
and "red-fin" trout and sending them
TO market.
One reason, probably, why the fresh
water fishermen have not had better
luck is that they have adhered too re-
ligiously to artificial and anSle-worn
bait. 1t takes an expert to make
success with artificial bait; apd he does
1t only a few times in a season. Angle
worms are not relished in the early
season by discerning Dream. The
Dream have an appetite for nice, ten
der grasshoppers, young Wasps. etc.
Worms will do better later on, but
just at present the Dream are rather
particular with respect to their feed.
The writer has known them to take
even young mice on the hook in Au-
gust, when they wouldn't take the
pupa of the locust at an cartier date.
Try grasshoppers, wasp-grubs, crick-
cts and tiny frogs for Dream and fresh
water trout and the chances are that
you'll not be disappointed.
Meanwhile, the salt water fishing has
been rather better than the average
during the past fortnight. The water
at all we'll known fishing drops has
cleared and been in good condition, gen.
orally speaking. No heavy winds have
blown to muddy and spoil any good
drop. June shrimp are nov becoming
plentiful. especially after each rain.
Reports from Montgomery, Isle Of Hope,
Tybee and Wilmington are to the effect
that bait is no longer scarce, and that
fishing ought to be up to the highest
spring standard within the next few
days. Any day, indeed, may mark the
beginning of the hight Of the spring
catch.
As a matter of fact the running of
channel bass has already begun. And
Potato Point. off the Lazaretto Creek
Railroad bridge. seems to be, SO far,
the most successful bass droE of the
season. George Robbins has got two
20-pounders there in the last ten days.
Al. Chapman has taken in two Or three
eeauties at the same drop. DIR. "Ioe"
FARRELL week ago got one bass of "a
pounds, and another of 24A pounds, at
the point. These are the authenticated
Clutches, where scales were used. Sew
ercl other big fish have been taken at
The same drop during the past week.
On Tybee Knoll. too. the bass have
ccen biting. All that seems to lie need
Cd is to catch the tide right-a neap
tide at high water-and TO nave the
right kind of bait-fresh cut mullet.
The Morning News publishes daily a
tide table, and mullet may he had any
Time in the market. so there ought to
oe no difficulty about timing cne's self
1Or bass fishing. Boats and bait are
I" be had at Lazaretto Bridge of the
fridge keeper.
With the coming of the shrimp is to
De noted the coming of the "oull-head"
whiting, the yellow-tail and the croak-
er' and last but by no emans least, the
C4lnsh. One angler who weAt out a
week ago, (where, will not be said, for
DpVlous reasons). f1shed five hours,
mnded ninety-two catches, and not one
OF them had a scale on! They were all
Sats, or kittens. One of rha cats was
80 Dig as to break a lance wood rod,
another WAS so small as TO be mistaken
or the bait. But they were all whis-
Aered and ready to put in a srine. Dur
ing this month and next cats DO their
Norst; then they gradually disappear,
1uuI ny October. a catfish i1i;e causes
surprise When we are fishing for win
~ trout we never think OF catfish
tt1Hey are all alternating or gune 70 the
west Indies.
aiking OF catfish. by the way, brings
up me experience OF Mr.. Launey the