The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-23

bluerock with shotgun durlng an
earthquake, when the bird goes out Of
the trap unknown nglewise and pumps
out of sight within thirty yard flight.
Imagine that and YOU Will have some
idea of what it is like to bang number
seven after flying fish.
Talk about the easy marks aeroplanes
make Forget il. and 60 out some
morning after fish on the wing. You
will be in a position to talk understand
ingly after that.
Yesterday a new sport was born;
Waikiki bav was the birthplace, and
II. p. Wood of the Hawaii promotion
committee was the accouc heur. t or Tie
first time in the history of the field
and gun were flying fish flushed with
a steam launch and shot on the wing.
1t was brand new experience IN the
hunting line that a party OF local NM
rods and visitors INDUCED IN yesterday
morning, an experience that VIII IN
doubtedlv be shared in by many others
before long. Taking pot shots at fish
on the wing is sport Of the first water,
affording plenty OF exercise IN the
good sea air. giving the opportunity for
quick shooting, providing for the use
of all the alertness contained within
man. and, being not too hard upon the
fish.
The idea of taking advantage OF
sportsman opportunity not afforded
elsewhere in the world came to Jack
Young, of Young Brothers. only last
week. He has been plying the waters
of the bay at all hours of the day and
night for many years and had grown
so accustomed to seeing the buzzlng
blue fish leap out Of the water as his
launch plowed past that he knew, al
most to a foot. where every school of
fving fish is between the bell buoy and
Diamond Head. When he took his
launch out shark fishing he used to
make imaginary harpoon throws at the
little fish as they twinkled over the
waves ahead of him. but he never com
pleted his casts because with the flying
fish it is a case of now you see me
and now You don t..
But day after day the sight of those
fish scurrying ahead of his launch in
terested him. and last week the idea
was born: '.Shoot them on the wing
he thought.
Yesterday morning, just as the sun
was warming up, his launch chugged
out of the channel with a pioneer ex-
petition to the shooting grounds, those
aboard willing to try their eye at the
new sport being W. J. Lynch, general
traffic manager of the New York Cen
trail Railroad; Max Ihmsen, manager of
the Los Angeles Examiner; H. ?. Wood
of the promotion committee, r. 0.
Matheson and W. Morgan.
ahn m
water, lust sufficient to keep the bows,
where the lookout marksmen sat, on
bob to windward, a roll the other way
and shake with an upturn. The mo-
ton failed to shake the nerve of the
gunners, however, and a sharp lookout
was kept for the first school.
This came with a great scurry of
blue wings Just as the launch swept
around the last channel buoy and head
ed toward the sun, the fish taking to
the streak that the sunshine made IN
the water.
"sThere they are.' yelled Ihmsen.
and bang went Lynch's gun. 1t would
have been sad day in the flying fish
family if the launch just then hadn t
lifted its nose over roller, and the
shot flew Waikikiwards. Some of 1T
NAV have struck the wreck of the
Helea, while the fishes swooped back
beneath the blue.
From that tire on the shots came
fast and furious, and the dipnet came
into commission. The first fish that was
found after the shooting commenced
and the marksmen got the knack OF
keeping their footing, allowing for re
Election from the water, giving the
necessary lead and shooting before the
flight was over, was belly-up, but still
swimming.
.sWc have to have him, boys. That s
the very first flying fish that was ever
shot in the world by a man who went
out on purpose to shoot him, SAID the
New York Central man, who never APP
preached a big shipper one-halt so
eagerly and with such intensity of pur-
pose as he gathered up the net and went
down after that fish. The dehcately
colored swimmer went around in little
circle and lodged the net by desper-
ate dive. Around swung the launch,
ebugging in its oily circle, and again
dipped the net. =
explained Wood, as the dip came up
minus the nSu, HOW OliS d o"lhiiAi'OA -
white in the water.
He was deeper than the net handle
and kept on going deeper.
81 was going to have that one
stuffed and mounted. The boys in New
York will never believe me now. l got
to have fish for this fish story and
that was the fish [ wanted most,
lamented the New Yorker, who wanted
to know if dogfsh couldn't be broken
in as retrlevers.
There were other fishes in the sea,
however. and lots of them took to the
air for the pulling of the gunners.
For three hours the sport was kept up,
the best combination of land and sea
sport yet discovered.
With shark fishing there are likely
to be more disappointments than sue
eesses. With flying fish shooting there
is almost a certainty for sport. Dat
beyond Diamond Head, where the biz
flyers are, the sport should be even
better than that found yesterday by
the pioneers in the lee of Diamond