New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-08
FISH IN FLIGHT FURNISH
FINE FRESH AIR FROL|C
M Need Of Hook, Line or Bait
for Great Catch in the
RoCkaWay River.
BIG BASS AMONG VICTIMS
F;nnv Inha bitants of Stream in
Their Flight Rush Pell Nell
Into Hands of Eager
Youngsters.

TIE Rockaway River isn't a broad or
dsep stream but II has its advant
n.soite its name IL has no connection
-nstever with Rockaway Beach. In fact
4, AL its windings and turnings it never
.,ca let's so much as a ripple wash out
siss the border lines OF Morris County.
" J.
The most important thing about this
modest stream is that about midway be-
,ueen Lake Hopatcong and the place
vbere II finally adds its flood to that Of
the more lordly Passaic. II forms the
,outhern boundary of the Tribunes Boys
Camp, at Denviile.
For the boys at the camp IL forms the
source OF half their amusement. They fish
IN II. battle in it and boat on II. while
under the trees along its banks there are
cool and shady hooks On even the hot
,sst days 1t remained for yesterday,
however. 10 show what II really could
provide in the way of excitement for the
two hundred boys at the camp
About $50 o'clock in the morning
rroup OF a dozen boys were sitting on the
hank idly watching the water eddy by.
when suddenly one Of them sprang to his
fee, with a whoop, shouting, Wow! Look
a, the tish. Gee. There's a millionr
One or two OF his companions started
% squelch the shouter. when their eyes
N turn fell on the water. They lost al
their nonchalance in q twinklins and
started 10 their feet, their eyes bulging
and their breath coming in gasps. The
river had in reality changed from river
Of water TO a river Of fish. The waters
literally swarmed with FISH from bank TO
bank
The shouts Of the watchers soon had
every one OF the campers on the bank
sszing ct the unusual scene. What had
caused II no one could say. but probably
there had been some disturbance up the
river that had started a general down
stream migration. At any rate, there
were the fsh-u1ore fish than most Of the
boys had any idea existed in the waters
Of the whole world.
Then one lad shouted: Catch EN- for
dinner!" And in less time than it takes
10 tell II nearly every lad in the party
was in the water and four hundred hands
were grasping at the darling, lodging fish.
Meanwhile some one brought hamper
from the pavilion. and half a dozen boys
formed a landing crew on the shore. AS
fast as a boy caught FISH he tossed II
toward the hamper and set TO work
again. while the boys on shore picked up
tie Topping captives and put them In the
basket.
At first the take was chiefly composed
OF sunhsh, but after the fun had been
going on for possibly five minutes there
was a cry Of There's a big one. and
the crowd closed in around little break
In the bank when the big one had been
cornered. II was a big one. too. bass
that measured close 10 fourteen inches IN
length. II darted and lodged and jumped
eluding the grasping hands that were a
new sort OF implement OF capture 10 him.
Then il made a break for II. but It's an
agile bass that can thread It's way TO
freedom through A forest OF arms ana
lees. and at last il had 10 yield. TO be
borne in triumph 70 the hamper.
Twice after that the same cry went
10. and as many times was the big one
landed. All together. the sport lasted
about an hour before the swarm began
to thin out The total catch was not
numbered, but IL is on record that 10
BOY left the table after dinner hungry Tor
fish.
And this-which is. by the way. the ex-
act truths only another proof OF the
cordial reception which the country hoios
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