The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1909-01-14
600 POUNDS FISH
HALF DAY CATCH
EXCITING FIGHT WITH BIG FISH
ON CALIFORNIA COAST BY DR..
WETr1ORE.
WHITE FISH INTERESTING c
The Doctor is Becoming an Accom-"
plished Fisherman and Surf
Diver.

The following account of a'2fishing
trip written by DR.. n. F. Wetmore
formerly of North Freedom now of
LaJolla, Cal, has appeared in the
North Freedom Journal:
Arising at a. M, ate hurried
breakfast and at o'clock was down to
the cove, where Encouragement Jim
and Joe Rosihan, two young fisherman.
We were soon in their dory Sand out
through the surf. First the boys looked
over and rebaited their crawfish trap,
and having made fairly successful
haul we were soon out beyond the
kelp bed and sport began for me.
used light 6 ft. pole, with reel and 800
feet ofsix thread linen line. We f1shed
about mile from shore in $50 feet of
water. | used 2 OF. sinker at the end
of nv line with two hooks above, fast
ened to line about one foot apart with
short header Is inch) hooks being bait"
ed with a piece of crawtish. I let them
sink to the bottom and hardly had
felt the bump of the sinker on the
bottom when felt jerk and reeled
in as pound white fish. They are
fighters, to the limit, and the whole
= $50 feet were contested; and grand
fight I had. Sometimes he would
come easily for twenty or twenty-five
feet, when, away he would go, and
again would reel him. Is there any
more exhiIarating music in the world
than the singing of reel, when you
have five pounds of fish, made of
spring steel, at the end of $50 feet OF
line? [ caught one that tipped the
scales at 10 pounds and several times
brought up two at time, and hard
battle they gave me! [ was reellng in
one gamey fellow and lifted him per-
haps fifty feet when all at once my
reel at once, and away on spun my
line almost to the end, when fortunate
lv the line broke, leaving me 25O feet
of ine-but hooks and slnker were
gone. Jim says s'd-it you had Jew
fish, I will fix him for you" He
hooked a 5 pound white fish on shark
hook, with large strong line and let
it sink to the bottom and in a few
minutes he saws, Il have him" and for
the next 80 minutes we were tossed
around in our boat very lively. Jim
would lift him with all the strength of
his broad shoulders for few feet and
then away he would go again. After
awhile the fish began to tire, and then
the two brought him up to the side OF
the boat. BY dipping the boat down
at one side, they dragged him in. He
weighed 165 pounds. This struggle
drove the fish away from this place
and we moved one-half mile farther
ont. and / was soon drawing in more
white fish. In a short time away
went my line again, while was draw
ING up fish, and again Jim threw
out his shark line, and after a short
wait 81 have him" and in 45 minutes
we had another monster, weighing
265 pounds. He also was dropped in
to the boat. This ended our fishing
for this day, and about p. m. we re-
turned to the cove, tired and hungry
I caught 100 pounds of white fish
which with our Jew fish made weight
of nearly 900 pounds. Pretty good
catch for one forenoon. The Jew fish
or great sea bass are caught here weigh
ing more 600 pounds. The flesh is not
much good but is sold in the market
mostly to Cinnamon.
I have been out several times with
the boys. On one trip, we spied 6
turtle asleep on the kelp and pushing
up to him quietly, they had him on
his back in the boat before he awak
end He weighed rs pounds. / have
caught great variety of fish on these
trips; beside white fish, sheep head
r..o,,xoo, c,,o oil ho-c co1i1lin Tanapnc.