Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-09
Largest Shark landed


While fishing with George Gels, the
guide, at Corson's Inlet, James Hawley,
of New York, hooked and landed a mon
ster mackerel shark, Weighing 200 pounds.
! The shark towed the small fishing dory
| for over mile, and It took all of two
| hours hard work to beach this monster.
George X. Smith, OF Philadelphia. fish
| Ing last Sunday, at Fortescue, caught a
| SS-pollnd channel bass. The party In
cluded Bill Carson, Buck Buchanan and
Willard Smith, all of Philadelphia
Captain Steelmans boat, the Helen. that
leaves from Somers Point, landed on
Monday last $50 pounds of sea bass at
the banks.
Tom Brown Ern Brautigan, Joe Binns
and Henry Howison will leave this week
Tor Fortescue, to fish for channel bass
DR.. w. Oakley Hermance, of Philadel-
phia will leave shortly for the sea flshing
at Cascc Bay Me.
Captain Nickerson, of Ocean City. has
caught to date, at seth street, the follow
ing channel bass, 34lk. 36ls and 80 pounds.
Doctor Lummis, who spends the sum-
mer at. Ocean City, caught two bass
Weighing 3ll9 and 1914 pounds
Mr.; Z. Hitchner. of Ocean City, has
caught 10 date two channel bass at 18th
street weighing 3O1A and ss pounds.
FRANK Hodson, of Philadelphia, will
open his cottage at Ocean City and de-
vote his time to surf fishing Last year
MIR. Hodson caught two channel bass
weighing "a and 80 pounds, at the same
time and on the same tide, 70 hours in
tervening between the catches.
Link and George Roden, of Phlladel-
phia, will spend the next two weeks at
Gus Witcamp's at Corsons, where they
VIII hsh for channel and striped bass.
Churchill Hungerford, of PHILADELPHIA.
Is getting his bank skin in order, that
he may hit the tunas as soon as they are
reported off shore. Mr.. Hungerford has
mad experience with these marine mon
sters or Block Island ard Nantucket.
r, c. Held. OF Philadelphia, caught n 6O-
pound channel bass at Brlgantine Beach
last week
Claude Holgate, of Newark, sends word
that the blues have been sighted on Fire
Island.
William Miller. of Philadelphia, piloted
a number of his friends to Great Bay
last week, and all were we'll pleased with
a good days sport ana welI-ilied baskets
of weakfish.
Clarence Brush, of Germantown, caught
II hinghsh Off the new Ocean City Fishing
Clubs pier last Monday
Samuel Jacobs. of Philadelphia, will
shortly take a party of friends on his
cruiser for a few days fishing at Fortes-
cue. They will make the whole trip from
Philadelphia by boat.
Master John Biernbaum. OF Philadel- |
pha, is daily hitting the kinghsh or the
boardwalk at Ventnor, and is one Of
the youngest surf fishermen OF the Vent
nor colony.
Next week the orchestra men OF the |
Victor Talking Machine Company will be |
the guests over the weekend OF Ed Ger |
hard at Beach Haven for the surf fish, |
Ing. The following men win motor there:
Howard Rattay, Walter Rodgers, Jake /
Fuhs, Fred Shrader Emil Kenecke and |
Abe LeYy.
Fresh Water Notes
DR., Edward Kieffer. OF Philadelphia,
will leave this week for the trout fishing
)n Saw Creek. at BushlSill. Pa.
Robert Cunningham and wife, OF Phila-
ielphia, have just returned from a most
fishing trip around Lake
George, where they made a splendid
showing among the big fish. Mrs Cum
bingham is an ardent fisherWoman and
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