The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-17

Four Species Bite in Princess Bay.
Frank Fogerty, F. A Busing and Al
Reddy. fishing in Princess Bay on Tuesday,
cells. hook was snapped by a lobster
and the crustacean brought to the boat
Heilner Takes Five Pound Salmon.
Ven Camper Heilner writes from Moose
head Lake, Maine: that he, he took a nve
streem early this week.
F1uke Taken Drifting at Freeport.
The Happy oppy Fishing Club, consisting
q Messrs shackman, Kahn and Mayer.
day last week drifting for Nuke. took
forty FISH. The largest fiuke was taken
biggest fsS Weighed pi six and tRree.auarier
spearing bait.
Scrappy Weakfish in False Channel.
Fishing two tides Friday and Saturday:
Charlie Guhrlng and his guests boated
seventy weakhsh in Jamaica Bay. fishing
False Channel.
The occasion was the annual salt water
trip of two of Charles trouting friends
Nelson 2. Mckay and Walter Sheldon of
walden N. Y. The boys left for home with
all the weak1sh they could tote and greater
tiles.
Joined the party for the late tide
great sport. The water was rough. the tide
strong and the FISH full of night.
boats, ana the eplleetion Of Ines. side
anchors and shrimp boxes afforded the
nsh opportunities to pull of various tricks
dh gle ;r.,. ~ n.,.- ,,arv ,,.s, ,..,,.
Early In the engagement ! hooked onto a
Boats and nd then added Mckay and Shell,
made dive for the rudder,
Snap went my tip. but before Charles
friend John, in the next boat. the maker
rnh lgfi
remarks about a bum fisherman. a big
weaknsh put his tip out Of eommission
themselves to bring along stouter lealers
next year as they pulled In after a strike
to hnd part of a leader gone. And Charlie
which. although It always looked about to
break, yet never broke. II Charlie should
would be so completely camouflaged that
even Charlie johnson would fail TO recog-
nize him. W. l. HALL
Brooklyn. July 1s.
A Florida shanty Boat Inquiry.
Would It be possible for two young men
TO hire a shanty boat in Florida and live
on II. from November until June and
earn enough money catching nsh IT 70 pay
their expenses? BLUE CRAB.
New York. July IS.
Rod Lost Waiting for Marcy Avenue Car.
! lost my fishing rod Tuesday morning.
July is. while waiting for Marcy ave-
f prooS eS II an snsi sra found il undouet
" " N. w. ARBoGAT.
+s1 Knickerbocler avenue. Brooklyn
A Fable.
In a dank green tarn frog one day
Sat backing In the sun,
When a man with rod came along that
And that frog he looked upon.
And he dangled rod and some worsted
Der the frog. who saw with a grin.
why. what a beautiful. strange new n.y."
AndE"Methink. 1sw,li take you IN"
And this frog did just what he thought he
And that. YOU may know. is tho reason
why
His legs on thi. plate are now served TO
In a delicate. well done fry.
And though his companions may sadly
This frog from the dank green tarn,
His fate may but teach that the moral Is
j WARREN HARPER
International Casting Tournament Urged.
As read switch Reels" articles In
the Eod and Sun column he sometimes
puzzles me as to what ne Is drMing al,
II switch Reel is looking toward sn', me
the English casters and the Yankee casters
why does he not start something?
The boys on this side OF the pond Will
court (their own kind preferred. rods to
be unrestricted. We Yankee casters can
cast as well as fight and you can take IL
from me we won't lose. either,
We have some very good casters on TINS
side OF the pond who are noted Tor their
accuracy, and ! can safely say they VIII
be there when II comes to a contest why
does not switch Reel gather himself 20 =.
gether, appoint himself a committee or
one and start tho bail a rolling and got
match with the British team or any other
team that think they can cast Then
we will know just how good we are AT
this game. Our style OF casting is mostly
accuracy. We have the straight line
with deductions) V shape court, 80 foot
lane events and stake events. think that
We have the 400 foot casters. also the
short casters. In fact. we have pretty
good bunch OF all around men from which
a team or two could be picked and feel
perfectly safe that they would bring the
bacon home 10 the good old U. S. \.
Switch Reew as an organizer would be
Just the person ITO start this contest going
and with men like Churchill Hunkerford
of Ocean City. &C. f. Holgate of Newark,
Or. Frank G. Raynor OF Brooklyn. J. q.
Young of the Asbury Park Fishing Club,
and several others there is no question
but q match could be arranged.
IL could not take place this year. but In
the course of the next, or Ing 1921. We
can let any team who competes use their
own rod and tackle and IL It is for accuracy
or distance the present records OF the
ROD AND GUN.