The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-30
FISHING

Thomas Simpson and Herbert Anderson
caught twenty-six weakfsh off South
Beach yesterday afternoon. They tried
Midland Beach the day before. but never
had a strike. They caught the fish ON blood
worms and shrimp, which proved as good
bait as shedder crabs.
James Spencer has been up along the
line of the Greenwood Lake division sew
eral days this week looking for good fish
Ing spots. Yesterday he fshed at Little
Falls on the Passaic and caught sixteen
catfish and five sunfsh. Tuesday he caught
two bass there, but they were very small
and had to be returned to the water.
Frederick Bowers. Walter Davis and
Charles Smith ave overhauled their launch
and will cruise In II all next week. They
will go to the Highlands Labor Day to take
a party of friends outside after bluefsh.
After that they will go as far as Con-
n%ecticut, making stops along Long Island
Sound.
James Tucker. Of East Orange. while
fshing of Norton's Point in Gravesend
BAY Wednesday, caught o six-pound weak
fish. When he hooked the fish he thought
his line. IT broke water and that changed
his opinion. so ne brought It In.
John Westcott and Phil Gearey went to
Princess Bay Yesterday and fshed in the
main channel. They caught seventy-eight
pounds Of weaktish and bluefish before
getting tired. Had they so desired they
could have caught more. rs there seemed
to be no end of i1sn in sight. They were
all school Ash.
John d. Neefus, jr.. of City Hall. Is
spending his vacation at Lake Hopatcong.
and. being unsuccessful as far as hshing
is concerned. had his picture taken near
the River Styx while holding up n huge
papier mache bass. He thought he would
surprise his City Hall friends by sending
them a post card with the picture on 1t.
He would have gotten away with the joke
II another post card with a picture of the
same fish on II had not reached the CITY
Hall at the same time, with someone's
else name on 1t.
n new business is introduced in the
LEGISLATURE during lis coming session one
of the bills 10 be heard from will be to
prevent the sale of game. Passaic County
and Essex County fish and game protec-
tive associations have agreed to the word
ing Of a bill. and they hope to beat out
the lobbyists who represent the cold stor-
age people This state IS the dumping
ground for the forty-two States and Terri
tories that prey alt the sale of game. and
It is also the shipping point for many
wholesale dealers
Monday morning. one hour before sun
rise. the shooting season opens for rail
birds marsh or mud hens, reed birds, geese.
duck, hrant and other water wild fowl 1t
is claimed by many local sportsmen that the
season opens one month too early, and
point fol proof to the absence Of wild
water fowl north Of Atlantic County. That
they are right In their contention there can
be no doubt, but then the present law was
passed to satisfy the counties south and
west of Atlantic County, and not the
northern counties. In Essex County the
mud hens are more plentiful than they
have been for years. On the meadows be-
tween Newark and Elizabethport quite a
number + these birds can be seen from the
Central Railroad cars, while they are
feeding Ia the open places. Passengers
from the trains invariably look for them
and often refer to them as young ducks,
but after Monday they will be seen no
more, as the gunners will no doubt clean
them ont IN n day. 1t Is really a pity. as
they are not Of much value as food. and
are about the only bird life left on those
once-famous grounds of Atlantic, Cape
May and Ocean counties. The Philadelphia
gunners will get the cream of the shooting,
MS they control most of the water front as
preser ves. The open season for shooting
gray. English or Wilson snipe also opens
next Monday. These birds are also scarce,
mighty poor.