The sun., 1919-08-10
2 ounce sinker An Fool rIur,.

ut isn't often" writes New Yorker
| that an unsorupulous fisherman car
TOOL those who 20 into the pools on tht
oank boats going to the deop sea
grounds have heard t1at occasionally
II haa happened. The other day, how.
ever, we caught an italian asbermar
who weighed In a large fiake In the pool
and looked for q moment Al if the
hsh might capture the pool The man
VINO took from the, nsh a twclve ounce
slnker. - ~
What Ia Illegal I'm New Jersey.
Answering inquiries Of MI. Jacobs.
It is illegal in New Jersey al all times
To take trout bass, nike, pickerel ana
pike perch between p. NJ, and daylight.
TO take or attempt 10 take any fish
IN any manner oxcepting with hook and
line, but n,tnnowA' for bait may be taken
with seine not over dfty feet long in
ponds and lakes of over q hundred acres
ana In other waters with n seine not
over thirty feet IN length. Hels may be
taken at all times with wicker baskets
anchored on the bottom of streams and
ponds. For Delaware River and other
tidewaters there are special laws.
To pollute streams. To use medicated
bait or explosives OF any kind for tak-
ing fish. To draw Off water to take f1sh
To permit the erection or maintenance
or unlawful contrivances for taking
game and fish; applies to owners and
tenants OF lands. To use carp for bait
or In any other way to put carp in fresh
water.
Along the tide rip, the famous fishing
grounds Of New Inlet, OF late anglers
failed to take channel bass and catches
Of striped bass. bluefish, croakers and
wealthsh were not numerous. Some Of
the anglers ascribe the poor fishing to
the large catches Of the bunker boats
Anglers To-day ana Yesterday.
M. Mayer wrote In THE SUN on a re-
cent Sunday of an old fisherman "who
ought to have known better who caught
six and one-quarter pound fuke, but
refused to call for the gaff. desiring to
show his fellow fishermen that he did
not require gaff to land fish of this
size. The man landed the fish on board,
but he paid for his vanity or his igno-
rance with broken rod"
Olje" writes concerning the Incident
as follows; i wonder IL Mr.. Mayer
has ever given a thought to the years
gone by7 / wonder II he has stopped
SOSNci tho HuUlDer OF nSnermen
who never used gaffs and OF some who
never had any and did not even consider
them necessary for q fishing expedi-
tion?
Il wonder II Mr. Mayer realizes that
without any of our new tangled tackle
OF to-day those Old boys not only caught
fish but lots of them.
And I wonder IL Mr. Mayer ever
stopped to consider what the old BOYS
think Of the numerous contraptions a
fisherman takes with him to-day?
why, my dear fellows, those BOYS
or pysone days caught more fish than
you or have and they did It with no
FANCY frills, no landing nets no 500
rods no high priced ball bearing reels
or swivels. or dne silk lines, but with
Just an ordinary bamboo pole generally
known as Just fishin' pole,' a good
line and common lead sinker. and
any old bait they chanced, to get. -
oh. yes, and to-day while we are
rigging up our rod and setting our
reels, and putting on every conceivable
eontrapton to lure the fish, those old
boys have their line in the water and
nave most likely landed their first OF
the catch and without raising a con,-
motion about It, either =
Recently spent a day on Long
Island, and In the party was one of
these real old time fishermen. I really
tnink l enjoyed watching him fish more
than putting my own line over ri
caught fish also.
learned few big things from this
old fellow and simplicity was the kew
note" MY