The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-27
CUNNING AND FISHING

Charles Beardsley is going to Miami,
Fla. January l to try his hand at catch
ing Southern fish. lie will probably re-
main there a week and then take a trip
Matt Plum. Jr, will leave for North
Carolina next month on a hunting trip:
He will hunt quail and partridge most of
the time during his stay there.
Fred Small. Newark Bays lone fisher
man. caught t~hirty-nine tomcods on the
celery patch Wednesday afternoon. He
said it was the poorest fishing he has had
since tommies commenced to run.
On Wednesday John Morchling and
George Becker ished from a pier at Conn
tom Gods. Morcfling caught hinety-one
and Becker 1O2. The fish were large.
Thomas Bolan vent out after ducks from
Atlantic Highlands Wednesday with a
guide and killed four. They put out the
stools about a mile above the steamboat
pier and killed one bird out Of each of
four small fiocks.
Frank Day says that the next time he
goes duck hunting he will go over TO
Great South Bay. lie has been down to
Barnegat Bay the last three days and only
shot one pair Of black ducks.
The auxiliary schooner WhileWay is still
making Sunday trips for cod fishing n
has met with much success 50 far. The
boat leaves Stillwells pier, Gravesend
Bay, every Sunday at 8 a. IN.
Motor boats. like everything else, are GO
ing up in price, and as a result men have
taken 10 building their OWE fishing craft.
About thirty are now being built in this
city and will be ready by next summer.
II really is surprising to see the fine lines
Of some of those made from patterns.
There seems to be a leaning toward the
long, narrow boat, due no doubt to tile
demand for speed. A narrow boat Is not
as good for a fishing BOAT as q wide one.
Generally. when Il boat is at anchor, every
mau wants to fish on the side where the
lines run off with the tide, and this tips
the boat over, making the standing posi-
ton unnatural.
Tropical fishing, as far as natives are
concerned, is primitive and will probably
remain 50 for d few years. In 1890 while
on a trip to the Hawaiian Islands the
writer tried fishing with a party of Japan
ESQ fishermen, using a weakfsh rod and
line and catching in an hour seven malolo,
or flying fish. The japanese used a drop
which were eight hooks. They chummed
with a prepared bait and when they sue
ceeded In enticing the fish to the bait they.
would jerk the spreader upward and take
chances in hooking the fish anywhere in
the body. 1t was surprising the number
of fish that a man would catch by this
manner IN a short while. They did not
understand the workings OF a reel and in
Varihbly when n fish was hooked one of
the japanese would grasp the line and
attempt to pun in the fish. A few days
later the ship dropped down the coast
about thirty miles and a party OF four
accompanied the writer on a fishing trip
close to shore in the ships long boat.
They rowed within a hundred yards OF
Some japanese who were fishing and hav-
ing good luck for two hours catching
h%apunpun aud kawakawa, were about to
row back to the ship when the Japanese
in the other boat hailed, and coming along
side. demanded the catch. The American
party tried TO argue with one OF them
Who could speak some English, but it was
no use, as every fish that swan in that
vicinity was the property of one man,
decided to him by the ruler OF that island,
and nobody had the right to fish there
but his men. The Americans went ashore
and were soon convinced that the man
spoke the truth. Private ownership of
fishes found IN open sea or bays to within
a prescribed distance from shore is q prin-
ciple strictly adhered to and In most cases
they were backed up by n lifelong grant.
When those islands became American pos
sessions suits were started in the lower
courts and the courts denied the rishts
OF the fishery owners, but In 1904 the
United States Supreme Court rendered a
decision sustaining the claims of the
fishery owners, who mentioned their origi-
nal grants IA their d~efenses. .