The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
ANGLERS DANCE AT
CRY MOVE THE BOAT
Barnegat Bay Fishers Synco-
pate on Deck While Find
- ing New Places.
Is POUND BASS CAPTURED
Weakfish, Croakers, Lafay-
cites and Kingfish Make
Up Catches of Resorters.
Is POUND BASS CAPTURED
NJ w. H. BALLOU.

capture of a fifteen pound striped bass
with rod and reel on Tice Shoals Is In
line with the prediction I made last
Sunday that the big fellows would soon
begin to enter Barnegat Bay from the
surf preparatory to passing the winter
in fresh water.
Upper Barnegat Bay offers ideal win
ter quarters for bass, owing to the sew
eral streams emptying into 1t, keeping
n very large fresh area. The summer
resorter. so plentiful you can't count her,
soon will be no longer there disturbing
the placidity of nature by everlasting
swimming and boat racing stunts, but
will have returned to her home town to
NIB 1t out with Charlie about having
had no fiirtations with strange men dur
ing the season. Charley will also try
TO look her straight in the eye.
You remember the ancient, antique
minstrel Joke OF grandfather days:
''Mirandy, who was dat Niger / saw
yer wild last night on a park bench wit
his arm around yer waist?" IVY,
Jackson" shorts Miranda. indignant,
"dat man was pufect stranger to me-"
Fish in Gales and Storms.
Notwithstanding the hazards to fish
and fishers angling has kept up its pace
with the usual bags during the last ten
days. These hazards comprised heavy
rainfalls inland, causing the streams to
ill the whole bay with black and muddy
water of the consistency of a thick soup.
The fish felt their way about. just
the same. although It is doubtful II,
being used to clear salt water. they
could sec under the conditions any bet
ter than man or other animals.
Tho ha ri In anR1ara inplndad gales
and rain squalls, little matters one
doesn't mind-the fish in water and the
angler in a snug boat overhead. The
veakfish, bass, croakers. lafayettes. king
fsh, &C.. were taken in the same numbers
and sizes as under ideal conditions.
All days were not stormy. Switched
IN between were as ideal spells as one
has a right to expect in August. I took
advantage Of each storm to test out the
qualities Of rowboat with surprising
results.
For instance on a northwest gale,
against flood tide, made a straight line
stretch Of seven miles in just one hour.
Returning on the same stretch Of water.
on the next flood tide, the time was an
hour and five minutes. In other words,
with the wind square behind. against
the tide, the time was almost Identical
with the tide square behind and the
wind dead ahead.
Against a southwest gale and an ebb
tide. 1t required almost two hours to
make three miles. It was only possible
10 row this stretch by keeping the bow q
point or two of the wind when II blew
strongest, then taking the wind head on
when II let up a little.
sanderson's Hole Productive.
About 500 yards from the veranda of
tina clubhouse of the Sedge Island Gun
and Fishing Club, on Sedge or Warmers
Island, Is Ben Sanderson's secret weak
fsh hole It Is widening OF a ditch
Ike channel that runs close to the shore,
parallel with Mud Channel.
Everybody who angles on the bay is
marked as to his position. II he comes
In with a big catch the spot is coppered
the next day. Next morning after my
big catch there / noted Capt Lloyd
Reeves motor boating my friend Theo-
dore F. Hicks away from Eno's Just
about the time was getting separated
from the sheets
BY time 1 had crossed the bay they
had fully filled their big fish box with
and 10 pound weaks on the Ben San
derson hole-the greatest catch Of the
largest fish OF the season. They almos,
repeated the stunt the next day. On the
and cleaned out the hole.
On the fourth day Mrs. julius Seig-
bert, an expert angler living at the
Essex and Sussex Hotel, Spring Lake
having been given the tip by Mr.. Hicks
motored over and went with Captain
Ed Bunnell to the now famous hole
All day she fished on ebb tide, bothered
by sharks and bait skinners, without
result. At o'clock flood tide came
along, out of which she landed seven
of the huge fellows in crackerjack style
after losing enough tackle to warn her
against too highbrow methods
Judge Howard Carlow, presiding al
Camden over the Circuit Court covering
six Jersey counties, with his wife passed
two weeks vacation at Eno's. Mrs
Carlow was laying for the august dis
penser OF Justice and last Tuesday go'
his goat During the two weeks she
had perfected her angling sufficiently tc
land forty weak and croakers. Is the
Judge sore or proud? Ask him.
Dance When Not Fishing.
Angling parties fish when anchored
and dance on deck when moving about
Returning to Eno's, they eat dinner and
then continue dancing in the music
room Among these, Mrs w. ]. Bowles
Q young bride of New York, had no dim
Guilty In being the positive belle of the
season both in fishing and dancing-re-
suit OF magnificent red hair, blue eyes
and perfect complexion.
Among the men the palm for dancing
goes TO H. B. Gilmore of Roselle
N. J.-resuit of height, siimnass and
knowledge of the steps. Oh, yes; Mrs
Gilmore and Mr. Bowles were there ali
right Another attractive party COM
prised Mr.. and Mrs. t. NJ. Barringer OF
Deal and Mr.. and Mrs. Victor b. Ze-
man and Miss Mary Zeman of New
York. indifferently at home landing fish
dancing on deck and in the music room
J Others of the fisher-dancer guests
noted were Miss Hannah p. Wright
Miss Eleanor McNulty and Miss Ruth
Sullivan, Philadelphia /; Misses Elizabeth
and Beatrice White, Mr.. and Mrs H. f.
Ely. PHILADELPHIA George Boggs. Sir.
Salem, and George Boggs, Jr., Railway
Or. Otto Lowry and Richard Lowry
Newark; ]. +. Carroll, New York Miss
i. M. Gay. New York, and Mr.. and Mrs
g. F. and Jack Marshall, Langhorns
Pa.
Labor Day will make no diminution IN
the angling. fishing and cunning crowds
and the hotels will keep open until De-
01rber /.