The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
CHANNEL BASS GAME
FOR TWO FISTED MAN
Grand and Glorious Feeling to
Have Red Warrior Hang
ing on the Line.
ny ROBERT II. CoRsoU.


DEAR ELLIEAJust received a letter
from Ed telling that you have been sadly
on the sick list and have gone away
to recuperate. Am sorry, old man, and
hope that as the flowers bloom in the
spring your health and strength will
do likewise
Just to help along and TO conjure the
dreams that take the mind from bodily
distress and give nature her chance
TO restore US. am enclosing a little
picture OF the results OF an afternoons
cumming for channel bass at Barnegat
Inlet. right here on the Jersey coast.
These five beauties weigh from IS
to 81 pounds each and were brought TO
| gaf at the stern of the sloop anchored
In swift tideway leading out to sea
not mile from where you see US
| tied up.
The grand and glorious feeling that
comes when one OF those big fellows
slips up the tide and takes your bait
about as a sunfish takes a worm with
no moro fuss until you set the hook
or II perhaps he has run by II and
gets n glimpse out OF the corner OF
his eye. turns down tide and hits It
with smash like that of a locomotive
Slaitlhb luHS cars. the Ieel-
| Ing Is not to be imagined.
The swift tide from a great bay Is
slipping out through a narrow channal
with foamy bars on each side. over
which the white seas are breaking.
Gulls are congregating in large fiocks
| and squealing in eagerness as they feed
| on the chum in the Stick" that runs
out to sea, fed by the oily product
| OF the sNpper's industry at the grinder
| MASKING the menhaden into pulp.
Tackle for Channel Bass.
Fifty or seventy-fve feet astern Ia
your hook hidden in n half-pound chunk
cut from the fat back OF a bunker" The
rod which holds popularity to-day Is OF
| split bamboo tip of about five feet In
| length, weighing ten or twelve ounces.
with n butt in the neghborhood of
| twenty inches
The reel is generally go. holding 400
yards Of thread or 900 yards OF the
next larger size, IL thread. linen line
The line fastens to large box swivel
attached TO a three or four foot wire
leader armed with a hook OF about 1910
size.
While this tackle may seem heavy for
! fish up to As pounds yet It must be re-
membered that the work Is done from a
|
| "Chumm!ng'' must be done from a
boat at anchor. Otherwise the chummer
would get down to something in the
| three six" class OF tackle, which Is most
delightful In bateau fishing as practiced
further south than Barnegat Inlet.
But the Slick has found a small
school OF the big fellows prospecting
around for supper and attracted by the
oil and minute fragments OF their favor.
lite fish. they swing into it and move UT
tide in search OF something big enough
to stick their teeth into.
The leader of the band soon comes UT
to your bait. 1t looks inviting He Is
puzzled, perhaps. because It hangs in one
place rather than is moving down witt
the tide, but when he closes down on Il
you feel a gentle thrill floating up the
line and slack away few feet OF line
to give him confidence.
Then you come up strongly and stead.
lily on the rod to throw his weight or
tho point OF the hook and II sets. And
that's when the G. and G. feeling be.
gins!
Game for Two Fisted Fighter.
Every fish seems to take n stronJ
dislike to the spot at which he first feel
! the barb and sets out at once to ge
off across the current TO right or lef
and attempts to pass ahead of the boat
Sometimes he succeeds and the angle
| has an interesting trip from stern t
bow and back. passing his rod aroun'
shrouds, stays and bowsprit. This tri
comes oftenest with fish hooked in tn
corner OF tho mouth, where the utmos
freedom of action is afforded with n
attendant pain, but with fish which hav
Al
the outlet or stomach the fight Is gen
orally back and forth across the stern
OF the five fish shown IN tho pictur
one went completely around the circl
and two OF them succeeded in gettin
fairly abreast Of us.
When the first bend goes into the ro
/, OF a good fisherman 1t stays there unit
the fish Is brought to gaff or escape!
The latter IL by no means unusual. 70
II the quarry happens to run by the bal
. before taking II and hits II with hi
head away from tho boat the difficult
OF turning him and getting on eve
terms fon battle Is about a fifty-hft
chance. Many husky one has gon
right on to sea with a few hundre
yards of first class line towing behind
So you see, doctor, dear. that 1t
game for a good. two listed fikhter.
The seasons for cumming are lat
June and September in south Jerse,
and the latter month up around Barnt
gat Inlet. Surf fishing from the gloriou
beach can be interspersed with the wor
from the boat according as the tide
serve. III probably hit 1t up in Septen
ber So won't you dream about it dun
: ing your leisure and get up your stear
: to meet me on tho Job? I've plenty c
tackle Tor both or US