The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-19
ROD AND GUN NEWS
Jersey Pickerei Opening Tomorrow.

Jersey Pickerel Opening Tomorrow.
and pickerel season In New Jersey. In
June IS; The. limit is twelve inches II
and daylight.
Long Islands Casting Tourney Sunday
,,,Irhs spring .ournament Of the Ions Lon.
Island casting Club will be held at Grant
City, Staten Island, next Sunday.
Anglers Casting Tournament This Week
The fourteenth spring tournament OF
the Anglers Club OF New York will be
svsnus and se set street en-.
saturday, On Saturday the whole day
two days events begin at z P. NJ.
The fall tournament will be held on
seRts. n 10 and a. 20 S,. =, ana, ,.n,,.
cap. will be held at Central Park at Z go
2. M; on the following days; June ~.
The &nsiefs c CUB team shS o, A az. men
viii meet q similar team from the Newark
Bait and Ely Casting Club on June Z and
and n New w To sE'e oa ivy @s'a Y and Sop,
4 ,. Hammer. of 81 william, stree. 1.
mittee.
Bobwhite at Bayside.
4 nature observer heard the bobvhite
call on the outskirts of Bayside, L. L..
ono day last week and called the birds-
A Tragedy Of Bird Life.
AZ Bayside. 1. l.. ono day last week
and Wild life had The opportunity Of
mounting two wood thrushes that came
TO him in the following manner: The
often do. and seeing a plate glass door
and installing 1t for a dark recess plunged
into 1T with such force that both birds
broke their necks.
CoIuun M Co.a,p IJLrd
want to congratulate you on your new
in The su 9Si aGSAi sG Gs"s wSich tSinR
most Interesting sheet of the Sunday
That newsy little column 1. to The shse.
TBrother fshermen, take notice and
count tho weeks to July IL
send .s the s ,SsE new. t fol
THE Mas WITH THE GRAY HAT
New York. May IS
Information Asked For.
Readers ask for information as follows:
Amateur-When will blacknsh bite at
the stonepue on Manhattan Beach?
L kind-what lake or river within a
has good pickerel fishing during the latter
part of this month?
way from woodside station. Long Island, to
60 to Coney Island. sheepshead Bay, Port
Washington and Spuyten Duyvilf
in the various lakes OF Interstate Park7
Reader@Where is good trout and bass
fishing in the vicinity OF Tarrytownr
for turf and bay fishing this season at
Edgemere, l. IL
Charles Herrmann-whe win give in:
formation about fishing for big ash at
Block Island. r. l.?
As DIR. Briggs Secs tho Sporting Spirit
We can't have too much OF the sporting
spirit that our vision may be freshened
and enlarged through sportive eyes
Brooklyn. May is. B. N. BRIGGS.
$4,000 Pollution Appropriation.
The Conservation Commission has In
formed the Merchants Association that
Gov. Smith has signed a bill introduced
by Assemblyman Everett appropriating
40 900 to enable the commission to In
pollution of rivers. lakes. streams. bays.
harbors and other waters of tho state by
fuse or other waste matters affecting pub
lio supplies OF potable waters. fish or
shellnsh or aquatic life necessary for
The commission is also authorized to
investigate methods for treatment of
sewage and similar material. so as to
render II innocuous.
whiting and Ling Mt Long Branch.
waters surrounding the Long Branch pier.
Some catches made last Thursday night
follow: J. b. Thomas, 16 South Sixteenth
street East Orange, and r. Vial. II Cot
Fred Hoffman, 325 Chancellor avenue. New
ark, and Edward Bader, ATS Colt street,
Irvington. SO whiting, 81 ling: J. Hass,
se3 Elm street. W. Jeron. $50 Oak street,
W. II. Bauer, &c CatalpR street, and G.
Zupko. 400 Brace avenue, all OF Perth
Amboy. l62 whiting, IS ling.
Dan, Middletewn's Trout Fisherman.
The story OF Dan and his Great Trout in
tho Rod and Gun News has brought in
quiries which indicate doubts as TO his
in all particulars
He comes to Middlstown every Satur-
day, and last week found him sitting at
\ round table In certain back room and
ordered a drink for him. which made Dan
other drink and made him happy as
two larks, and asked him to tell all about
his trout dream, commencing at the be-
ginning.
II was his habit TO eat wedge OF mince
pie and drink pitcher OF cider every
night before going to bed Night after
night Inst winter he dreamed OF q mon
strous trout that would swim up to his
bed and polss there. Now can't be GER
tain whether he said po!se or pause. After
Al, what difference does little word like
this make among the fishing fraternity1
The trout would glare at him with It's
great eyes, smack its lips and open Its
sllls. This was exasperating enough, but
when tho great fish tilted Its eyes side
ways so they almost tipped out OF their
sockets. when he woke up, which was
or even sooner. Dan always
found himself laying on his back on the
At this point asked Dan why ne didn't
try changing his ME he Oh