The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-10-20
Capt. ]. P. Drew of Baraboo
Narrates Deep Sea
Experience.
READS RESORTERS' FACES
Some Can and Some Cannot
Afford The Season of
Gaiety.

Cap. j. P. Drew of Baraboo, who re-
turned from Ocean City a few days
ago, writes about the fishing and peo-
pie as follows:
In this article | must begin where |
left off in the fishing story. [ forgot TO
state in the beginning that in deep sea
fishing one must keep the bait agitated
while the line is in the water, and as
soon as the fish strike he must jerk or
the striker will take the bait and be
off again. With the exception of eels
and catfish, sea fish don't take the
hook themselves. Sea fishing is work.
Keeling in a fish weighing from six to
eight lbs. along with a pound of lead,
is no child's play, and when shark is
hooked it is apt to start the sweat on
mans upper lip. The bay at Ocean
City is popular fishing ground; it is
much less bOisterous than the ocean
and although the fish caught there are
smaller, and some of them worthless
when they are caught, still the less
courageous parties, they who feel |
squeamish when the boat rocks, resort |
there. When fishing there [ have
counted no less than fifty craft, sail |
and motor, around us, whereas, on the |
ocean in a line of four miles, there
would be out six. On the lower bay
some good fish may be caught,especial-
ly founders and king fish. The upper
bay is the resort of the clammers, men
who follow the business of furnishing
CLAIMS for the people of the island
cities. There too, the crabs are caught,
and deviled crabs are much relished
dish by those who are bedeviled at
home as well as those who are not.
Croakers Went Back.
One day we went out to sea and in
hours fishing, we caught 40 fish
weighing from two to six pounds,
three OF us doing the work. We kept
only the best of them, many of the
croaker variety we returned to their
proper element. The Ocean City
Ledger when publishing an incident
which occurred with me, got things
considerably mixed. The two fish |
caught on one hook at the same time,
were sea trout, one weighing six
pounds, the other, little fellow of
about one pound. Instead of 14O
pounds Of fish, it was 140 fish as above
stated. Many of the old fishermen
there say they don't remember of such
a thing occurring on the coast before it
fell TO my lot. 1t has been the talk of
the boatmen along the dock ever since.
But sea fishing is much like Mr.. Wei
Ier's widows, "mighty uncertain"
Sometimes we went out and came
? back as empty as we went, more so In
the region of our stomachs. The
weather was always to be reckoned
with. When we went to the dock and
heard a boatman say when the wind
was blowing a gale, ''I'm blowed if l
go out today" we told our engineer
and pilot we would not go out to get
blowed either. We don't mind being
crooked in the cradle of the Deep"
but to be thrown from one side of the
vessel to the other and from bow to
stern, is rather weakening TO ones
ribs.
Must Be Proof Against Sea Sickness.
Barring week of northeast storms,
we had very fair weather and our
share of luck. To succeed in sea fish
ing one must leave his nerves ashore,
divest himself of all timidity, and be
proof against sea sickness. Hundreds
go out in the large boats, and when
they reach the fishing ground their
stomach are In such condition that
they are fit for nothing but to lie
and grunt and groan at their phys
Ical infirmity. Nervousness is a good
thing for man that happened to be |
4'born tiredn On the water, it puts
some animation in him, he don't re-
ouire to be stirred into action, but it |
tells against him as fisherman. Dis
tance from land makes some men |
fishermen act rather shaky, but with |
US it was always solacing to know, al |
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