New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-03
HUNTING AND FISHING.
amusing Stories from Various
Regions.
AnluSing

BIG GAME AT SEA. BY Charles, Frederick
Holder Illustrated. 12mo PIP. $50. The Outing
FARM-COTTAGE. CAMP AND CANOE IN MAR
TIME CANADA By Arthur P SILVER. Win
s s. ana IQgn5 Rqy5j; Illustrated,
Emo. PIP. 24S. E P Button & co,
FOX-HUNTING. PAST AND PRESENT. By r.
H. Carlisle (''Hawk Eye'D. Illustrated. l6mo.
pp. l60 John Lane Company
THE BOOK OF FISH AND FISHING By Louis Louis
scribner's Sons.
If there is exharation in playing a crafty
two pound trout at the end Of line. what IS
the sensation of the angler whose nine ounce
rcd ouivers under the weight of hard fight
ing 250-pound black sea bass? Such a lively
antagonist, Mr.. Holder tells US, has been known
to resist angler for three hours and tow him
far out to sea Our author is enthusiast in
this sort Of fishing, and he offers his agreeable
book partly as "a plea for light tackle for all
the big game of the sea" Fair play to the fish
is the guiding principle in the experiences he
describes There is danger for the fisherman as
we'll as thrilling excitement in the catching CT
big fish Mr.. Holder points out that it is siren
uous sport and that il doesn't appeal tOsevery
sport snan. Z fancy" he adds, "a man must
be born to it" The taking Of tarpon is almost
as dangerous an amusement the hunting of
tigers The great fish when hooked is likely tC
come aboard the boat in its wild leaps. Il
seen a
chairs. tackle and oars into the air. A tarpon
has been known TO come down and go through
the bottom Of a boat though it was made of
paper. a boat found drifting in Galveston
Bay some years ago containing a dead tarpon
and dead angler. The fish had broken the
mans back" The author has had his due
share of the sport. Here is a note one of
his captures at Arkansas Pass:
hooked e; 1o hot M 1 feet feet from the
and came down. almost hitting the boat I re-
member i lodged. then I saw him 60 bounding
nearly hitting one boat and missing another by
miracle was using 9-fo4 2t rod Dc Of heavy
bass. and which held Six hundred feet Of 81
powerful leather pad and | was using a little
wooden lever; yet that splendid leaper carried
away five hundred feet more of line it went
dancing into the air and over the pass. 1t towed
Us into inldsreaTn ana away 70 the south ran into
seas which were piling In l saw 1t take last
was up; when ! stopped il by miracle. With
circle around across the channel again, and
anon making Wild leap into the air, menace
10 ANY boar ii living catapult that could have
killed man with single blow OF its powerful
breakers ofl the north side Of The mass and wtie
my man held the skin head on 10 prevent foun-
good luck brought him to the boat
These records Of battle are ACCOMPANIED by
corroborative testimony in the shape of various
interesting photographs Of big FISH, some Of
them very queer-hsh like the rnons;rous sea
bat and the giant sunfsh.
Mr.. Silver goes far to convince his readers
that IN maritime Canada may be found to-day
the earthly Paradise, If Paradise there be On
earth. He promises 10 the man Hho loves rural
life such opportunities ST happiness and profit
rs few regions afford. and even more tempting
to the sportsman are his descriptions Of hunting
the moose the caribou and the black bear of
fishing ior brooi. trout, trout and salmcn
end OF the shooting Of wild fowl. A chapter
on deer stalking the Newfoundland barrens
elbows how that sport may be pursued there in
fascinating perfection" 1t IS one of the few
places in America, it appears where the big
game is not decreasing in numbers. The carl
nou Ichen grows upon the plains ankle deep; it