Evening journal., 1914-04-02
IT'S FISHING TIME,
HOOK Calls MANY
Selecting Bait, Including
Bottled Variety, Most I'M
portant Thing
ALSO KNOW WHERE
THE MARKET is
It's time 10 go fshin'.

It's time to 60 fishin'.
There isn't much need in saying it.
because everyone with red blood in his
veins and that lazy feeling in his bones
knows IT, But at the same time there
are lots OF intelligent people who do not
know that the time Tor anglers has ar
rived and that many Of them have al
ready answered the call of the hook.
biologists tell us that the fish come
in from the pays and other deeper
waters at this time of the year to feed
and to spawn. This may be partly true,
but the scientists overlook one impor-
tant reason for the migration Of the gilly
tribe. The craniate pisces, many elias
mobranchs and some other fishes being
viviparous. come up the rivers and near
the shore to have little fun with the
fishermen.
Up the Christiana they come, up the
Brandywine, up the Shellpot, and up the
slightly, but they eat mostly. And much
the hook offers
AAlNAAlil lilln lIfln AitdN nlAlHA ANhfA
is here and that they will find the shores
dotted with feeders.
There are several varieties of fishing.
SEEMING in creeks and other methods OF
net fishing are frOwned upon by the best
class of fishermen, who maintain that 1t
is sportsmanhKe. and, also, that it
involves too much work. Fishing from
boat has its advantages and disad'
yantages. BY using a craft one escapes
the hordes of smaller fry which stay
near the bank for fear of drowning IN
the deep water; but, on the other hand,
the life of the fisherman is endangered
when he ventures out from the shore on
account Of the size and tgerlike vorac-
ity of the whales which continually
gulp and strain at the end of his line.
BY far the best way TO fish is 20 take
car to some secluded nook along a
branch that may or may not be dried
up 1t really doesn't matter, as long as
one is well fortified with a bottle or SO
OF bait. which should be kept in a cool
place among the mosses and leaves and
| inspected occasionally to see that IL is
not molestcd by bugs and ants, who GER
tainly do like bait. II the stream ]:
dried up. or if one has forgotten tC
bring along hooks. it is advisable tC
catch an inbound car which passes a
market, where one can catch sufficient
number of fish, with dollar to satisfy
his family.
Trout fishing is in disrepute will
true blue anglers on account of the killi
the angler is called upon to climb t.
catch the specklcd beauties. Grabbing
and ceiling are not properly fishing, a
crabs and eels are not fish, but horrible
looking creatures which cause a genuin
fisherman TO shudder. Ocean fishing
dangerous on account of sea monsters
Oysters never bite at bait.
Bright Outlook for Years.
Styles Of hooks. poles and lines var
for the different fish. but 1T has bee
demonstrated time and again that a zil
gag limb. a piece of twine and a ben
pin are Just as effective as split bambo
and steel. silk and scaweed, and liner
lex. sneck. sproat, kirby and carlisle.
The outlook for fish tales this seaso
is better than ever before, and a stoc
OF entirely new ones is already ON Oh
market Although il is rather early
one of the best tales of recent year
was sprung the other day. when new
was brought back 10 the city fror
Delaware river that a huge rock fsh-i
must have weighed several tons
Knocked the bottom out of perfect
good boat with its tail after being hook
ed and boated. Did il escapes O
course il did. for what human agenc
could have held it captiveg That iis
is probably laughing up his dorsal fl
at this moment.
The selection of bait is an importan
step. for not every fish will bite ever
bait. Besides bottled bait, shrimp is eN
cellcnt as an attraction for most iisl
while meat. red worms. soft crab
dough and almost anything will do.
Prospects for fish tins year are exec
lent. and il is predicted by those VIII
know that the lzaak Waltons, youn
and old. will catch many colds, ha
fevers. large-mouthed black bass, sha,
! pneumonias. white and yellow PEREZ
rock. brook trout, catfish, suckers. ol
shoes and tin cans-and when they e
home they will sometimes catch thuI
der.
. All the joys of fshin'i