The Savannah morning news., 1904-06-26

similar sounds which may be heard
at a great distance. These fish some
times congregate about vessel and
! produce a maddening chorus. These
conditions have also been noticed in
several other instances by travellers.
| A good fish story comes from Nor
ristown, N. j. 1t runs thus: pick
| erel of greater power and more fero-
| ctous aspect than any inland pisca-
torial specimen of recent years is the
capture made by Fred Buckenmeyer
at Green Pond, according to his story.
Green Pond is a beautiful sheet of wa
ter in the northern part of Morris
! county, about five miles in length, two
miles in breadth. with deep hole near
the western end. Mr.. Buckenmeyer
keeps the hotel at Green Pond, and
| when doubts as to his veracity are
! expressed he brings to witness Grant
Yard, Bob" Hornbaker and Jeheil
Blaine, three disciples of Izaak Wal
/ ton.
Buckenmeyer was out fishing with a
| troll just before shutdown, he says. AS
he rowed slowly over the deep hole
| there was some sort of a commotion
/ underneath his boat, and something
| like a gigantic bubble rose to the sur
! face, striking the boats bottom square,
| ly and exploding so violently that the
| boat was nearly capsized. In less than
a minute after this there was a ter
rife strike on the troll and Bucken-
meyer jumped for the line His boat
| began to follow the direction that the
| fish was taking, skipping over the wa
ter with great rapidity.
Three times around the lake the fish
| pulled the boat. Reaching the place
where 1t started, it stopped, and Buck
meyer again endeavored to land it. The
fish was somewhat exhausted by this
time, for 1T offered little resistance.
He finally got 1t to the surface and,
being alarmed lest the great fish should
escape, ran his hand into it's gills and
got a firm hold. The action fright
ened the fish. and 1t gave tremendous
tug, pulling Buckenmeyer into the wa
ter. The latter held on for dear life.
He jumped astride the fish, as an In
dian jumps astride a pony, and the
fish started off along on the surface.
Several times it jumped out of the wa
ter several feet into the air.
Finally the fish made off at great
speed for the outlet of the pond. At
| this point the water is shallow. and
the fish slid through the mud for near
ly hundred feet, being carried through
by its great momentum. Jeheil Blaine
was on the scene at this point. and.
! with a half-inch Manila rope coiled in
the form of a lariat, he threw the
moose to Buckenmeyer, who was astride
| the bucking fish. Buckenmeyer man
aged to get the moose over the fish's
/ snout and the next moment the rope
! had been drawn taut and the monster
! dragged further up the shore. where
Buckenmeyer, worn out with his great
| physical exertion, dismounted and then
| dropped on the bank unconscious
! Buckenmeyer says that the fish is a
! pickerel; that it weighs 600 pounds, and
! is at least 500 years old. He has learn
| ed to estimate the age of pickerel by
the condition of the scales-their thick
ness, color and adherence to the flesh.
The ACCENTS had many quaint ideas
| about the fishes inhabiting the seas
| and legends illustrating their personal
habits are legion. According to them,
they held converse with man. and in
many instances aided him in his daily
occupations, thus showing that they
| possessed nearly all the attributes of
human beings, though in a lesser de-
gree. During the early historical pc
Rod so many Of these legends were
proved 10 be false that II became fash
ionable, except among the uneducated.
70 deny 10 fishes almost all human
passions OF emotions, and 20 refer 20
them as ''voieeless and emotioniean
creatures" More recent invsstiga-
ucnA, however, have demonstrated
that nahea. a. well a. land animals.
are lmraoiy Hwnyed by ttIA Same emo
tions. and N then own limited wrav
give expression 20 these.