The sun., 1919-09-09


Weaknshlng at the bell buoy off Man
naltan Beach since my last writing THE
sun mas surely increased. as there has
peen a fleet Of boats there every day, and
them
There seem to be a lot of green weak
nshermen. who can't understand why
boats should tail off into a straight line
with the tide, and they come over with
their boats. dropping anchor anywhere.
There were several OF them yesterday
In the bow of my dory after
the ground about three-quarters of an
hour. I say we. meaning Charlie Guhring.
Bill Hall, George Robertson and myself,
not forgetting the car full \of chum and
other things. We set sail from Bergen
Beach for tho buoy at about 1915 P. NJ.
high water at about p. NJ. at the
grounds. Nosing the dory out of the west
way quite breeze greeted us from the
which continued to roll in all afternoon.
making It hard for expert to anchor a
boat. much less green hand.
all the other boats (there were two or
three lines then making up), and only two
boats near where we decided to nsh OF
about forty boats all over the grounds.
After we settled at anchor with our side
anchors holding us out OF the cross wind
(side anchors were not known by some of
the men who settled near us afterward)
they fiocked around our boat, just drop
ping the head anchor and the seas batted
their boats, around, carrying them in all
directions, 80 that at times their hshlines
were all atangle with every ones leading
down aft of the boat with the tide.
. We started the chum. and in about
forty-fve minutes we had the nsh to us.
and as soon as the other fellows saw us
catching fish II seemed as II every one
there was making for that spot. There
were boats under power and adrift, all try
ing to anchor on that spot.
Now there is room out there for every
body and the fish are not all in one place,
k,,N haNE h. llNNWVN w q n
to catch fish. II anglers don't have the
chum they should not try to spoil the
other party's fishing. who probably have
worked three hours and a half at midnight
to get his bait as well several hours
again toward noon next day. Catching
shrimp is not child's play. and IL anglers
I'll put some of you to work at 1t and
prove II. Ask any of the guides In ia
maica Bay IL it's easy
Well, we caught thirty-four hsh, ana
considering being bothered by the boats
aforementioned this was fair catch.
Some of these weakhsh weighed about
eight pounds each. We sTey GONE ss s
next week. REED GRASS'
New York. Sept. 7.
4 Pound Striped Bass on Cotton Thread
81 Rutland, angling in Jamaica Bay last
Friday morning on the first of the ebb tide
on "a cotton thread took striped bass
trolling, one weighing "a pounds and the
other two about four pounds each
AnBungS urhDDdks
Did you ever stand near fellow who
pulled up one fish after another and you
could not get strike? That is exactly
what happened to the other day on
board the Evelyn of Sheepshead Bay when
the three mates were kept busy saving hsh
from watery graves. A. j. NJ
New York, Sept. s.
Tho Uncertainty OF Angling.
August Roth scheduled his three weeks
vacation at the Raunt, Jamaica Bay, in &C
cordance with periods that looked promls-
ing for weakfish. One week selected was
in June another in July and third in
August Now, Roth is adept angler
particularly with cotton thread. but he
picked three weeks OF comparative hshless-
ness.
DiIJon's Articles Cure for Blues.
clipped and kept many of the con,
tributions Of the Rod and Gun old timers
l have a file of the writings of w. II. Dillon
.of woodhaven, and whether they were lies
or truth / can't say. but they brush away
the blues. u n hOiND'
Brooklyn. Sept. 8.
Asbury's Fishing Contest Rules.
The Asbury Park Fishing Club offers
large number of prizes for striped pass
channel bass, bluefsh. kinghsh, weakhsh'
fiounder or plaice and tuna taken be.