The sun., 1919-08-10
LARGE WEAKFTSH
RULE AT BARNEGAT
Mrs. Frank Kline Of Newark
Catches Specimen Weigh
ing 0 1-2 Pounds.
ROWING SEA TRoUTTAKEN
-Four Pound Croaker Nips Bait
and Acts Like Big, Lazy =,
Grab. .'a
By w, II. BALLOU.

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BY W. II. BALLOU.
FoRKED River, N. J.. Aug. 7.--Nothins
doing IN the over Sunday angling crowd
here now. They come every day In
druvcs, 20 the limit OF boats to take 'snl
cut You think maybe you will have q
nice, quiet day on O Monday. with the
whole Of Barnegat Bay clear Of ali craft
to obstruct your view Of the gllstcnifs
sand dunes towering high to the east
with the sun shining over on the tall
| lighthouse.
About the time you are making the
early start. along come autos In droyes.
toting merry crowds Some of these.
boat 80 sadly turh the tin Lizzie or
Bolles-Boice lemonkine about and run
down to waretown pr old Barnesat in
quest of a boat.
Weakf1sh continue to run in assorted
sizes and In large numbers, somehow
getting inside of the Bay. notwiehstand-
ing two huge pound nets which In dsfi-
ance Of the navigation laws of the
United States obstruct the entrance to
the inlet. When Aiger was Secretary Of
the Treasury he sent gunboat TO blow
up the three mile net closing the en-
trance to Great South Bay The fish
trust in those days relied on the good
Tom Plat to save their bacon. but Alger
never did like Platt. A few depth
bombs are severely needed at the en-
trance Of Barnegat Bay inlet. Perhaps
Secretary Glass will take the hint II
so. he is herewith invited to 60 out with
me in the rowboat and get some real
fish.
weakhsh Describes Arc.
You sit in your boat wondering IL a
bait skinner 10 the reason for no bite.
Swish Away goes your reel at thirty
miles an hour. When you land the big
weakfish. after as gamey a struggle as
you want you wonder at the innocent
who sent an inquiry to TIE sum asking
which Is the gamier, q croaker or a
weakfish? Half the time you don't know
croaker Is on your hook.
took In q four FOUNDER yesterday
that 1 thought was a big, lazy crab until
he came up to the gunwale. Bait out
again. Nothing busy Your mind wan
ders to New York where you are sure
your landlord Is planning to double your
rent by Labor Day.
Swish Your line goes out thirty
feet: then huge fish rises out Of water
and describes a perfect arc of a circle in
the air. You hold him taut while he
runs. Again he leaps out of his ele-
ment: this time he turns over IN the air
and stands on his head he comes out
again. this time standing on his tail,
vigorously shaking his head to remove
the fatal hook.
under II to break the line. Brought
back. he makes short horizontal runs
with sharp. sudden turns to break line
or shed hook. His last chance is with
the landing net and he makes the best
use of It.
Yesterday a brute was 80 ugly that
broke his snoot with the net and he
got away. AS he was laundering
around in the water I caught his mate
fiji st, then pulled up kedge and went for
him, finding him after a little search.
His injured snoot prevented him from
diving.
GouIds Fish for FIounders.
p A woman Ia champeen 80 far this
week. Frank Kline. produce merchant
Of Newark. went out with his wife and
a party with Capt. Watts Penn. A fish
took Mrs Kline's bait and nearly
yanked her overheard. Capt. Penn
grabbed her while she hung on to the
fish.
After quarter of an hour she
brought the big fellow TO gan. II was
a 9Ib pound weaknsh. There, Frank"
she quoth, That viii stop some of your
on provisions"
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould, "Aunt
Carrie" and party went out with Capt.
John Holmes specifically for founders,
or, as some of the public will have.
aG..Ir
enough 10 supply Castle Gould |
days.
For the first time In the memory of |
man the founder this season Is the |
Of the bay. Heretofore II was |
the exception, rather than the rule, to |
catch q founder. The Gould party used |
hand lines, batting the hooks OF |
he lead squids. drifting and dragging |
-ho bottom OF Oyster Creek channel.
Sea Trout Venture NOrthward.
had tho novel experience yesterday
II dropping kedge on school of sea
-rout I took eight OF them In success
,ion. said to be the largest number taken
lere by one person. The sea trout, no.
,ordlng to the books, ia the southern
orm of the weakflsh. Our mild winter
md summer has evidently encouraged
lumbers of them to venture northward.
Capt, Joe Holmes takes out daily a
3oonton. n. j.. party comprising Mr.. and
Mrs. w. il. Baldwin. Mr.. and Mrs. II.
lester Smith and Mr.. and Mrs w. Nor
inner, Their lowest catch so far has
'een thirty-six weakfish a day, all OF
arge size-up to eight pounds. George
>owther of Riverside. Conn.,, 70 years
Id. went out from Eno's with Capt Ed
3unnell and landed fourteen weakfish
seventy-five pounds.
Elmer Sickley, fishing tackle manu-
acturer OF Springfield, N. j., and party
vent out with Capt Howard Britton.
strange to relate, he was able to cap |,
ure weaktish on his own tackle. thereby
demonstrating 10 the public that his
'oods are SO. He's not like the French
hot, who won't eat his own cooking.
ie and party rounded up sixty weak
sh
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