The sun., 1919-06-16


Mem of Lsrchmont. y. Y, fishing with
Capt. M. Gerhard on Thursday last, caught
a channel bass of 80 pounds.
Striped Bass Bite at Asbury Park.
AsBURY PARK, N. j., June 15.--striped
during the week end Include J; Z. Wort
man 10 pounds II ounces; w, w. Flavell
pounds and j. Travis, . pounds II
ounces
Sea Bass ut seabrisht.
Friday the thirteenth was a lucky day for
the twenty-four men fishing at Seabright
from the velocity Of sheephesd Bay,
Capt. w. W. Stephens. Two hundred and
nfty-nine sea bass were taken, averaging
pounds each.
: High hooks follow: Albert OLSON. 221b
sy.na., socsi 99.' Martin SsG pssss 1sE
Srs sas East asS,s street aG III %
Krauer. 333 East Eighty-third street, 10;
F. Bragg, 62S East 13sth street. 10, and
Jacob Gegna. 20 East Ninety-ninth street,
10 sea bass.
Ocean City Issues Year Book.
OCEAN CITY, n. j.. june 1.-The
its 1919 year book. tire largest and most
The year book Is ' fiustrstes 'S with many
half tone illustrations and 100 pages are
devoted to the club, its memSership and
anglers. The editor IL Frank II. Stewart.
Black Bass Season Opens To-day.
The black bass season opens to-day
throughout New York State, with these
exceptions: Lake George. opening date.
h arsS't J1 j; lake Erie and the Niagara
In streams that the Conservation Conn
mission is building up angling for black
clude all the waters in the towns OF
Chester. Horizon and Johnburg. Warren
NJ Ha mil
Lake Bonaparte. Lewis county; Grass
Lake. in the counties of St. Lawrence and
Je1tersSn; and Butterneid Lake in Jeffer-
The minimum length Is 10 inches and
the day limit to one person Is fish. When
same boat the. limit is % black bass.
No license Is necessary for a residenl
non:re,ident, however. must hrst obtain
$3.50 and license. can be obtained from
action" Tarpon "shot" at st. Petersburg
Over 800 feet of real action" tarpor
pictures. showing hundreds of tarpon, were
taken saturday. Sunday and Monday. by
J.. II. Rucker, with the assistance OF -four
The party returned las. night full o.
enthusiasm and fsh stories. The movie
so trapon and landed 1o OF them. The
ish weighed from 4s to 100 pounds.
Mr.. Rueker last night was bubbling ovei
ct never saw anything like 1t in my
life. The fishing was wonderful. I WA
supposed to take 200 feet of film. 1 tool
between 800 and 300 feet"
Besides the moving pictures a number
OF stills" were shot.
Tho party left St. Petersburg Saturday
morning under the auspices of the ct
Petersburg Tarpon Club and caught thu
first hsh at the southwest channel. Their
the movie anglers went to Ixelhurst, where
thousands OF fsh were found.
George Roberts, the guide, said he had
never seen SO many fish before. Jimmie
Foley and sherman Rowles did the fishing
assisted by George, and the movie mar
operated the camera from the boat Of
Dick Harding.
Coming back the party ran into more
tarpon. At the southwest channel yester
day afternoon George harpooned a fsh
the struggles Of the FISH exciting a whole
school OF them. enabling the picture mar
to shoot hundreds OF leaping FISH.
George also pulled his famous stunt o.
catching fsh. and instead Of ganlnt
him run his hand into the hshs Gill
and pulled him into the boat with hi
two boats. within a few feet OF the camera
Foley landed 3 nsh, Rowles !. Roberts
2 and Harding l.
The race for the presidency OF the st
Petersburg Tarpon Club at present llei
between Robert Lassing and eX-Gov. Keith
Neville OF Nebraska. Lassing registered
| tarpon Of 800 pounds and Neville a fst
of 121 pounds. The season Is young ant
| the interest IA growing greater every day.
T. WINTHROP WESTON.
St Petersburg Fla, June 8.