The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23

August a.. 7s25 7A6 7:so 1881 sac
Striped Bass Biting in Jamaica bay.
81 Rutland of the vigilant Yacht Club,
whose headquarters are at the Raunt, fshed
ihe hrst Of the ebb tide yesterday morning
In He'll Gate, Jamaica Bay, and on twenty
four cotton thread, the hook baited with
bloodworms, trolling, he took four striped
bass averaging three pounds each.
Mr.. Rutland remarked: AT the float
they told me that striped bass were bring
Ing sixty cents a pound. Striped bass hsh-
Ing has been poor for the past three weeks
true Of weaknshinE Jamaica Bay purges
In August, and usually every year for two
or three weeks the fishing is poor. My
the nsh are ready to take tho anglers
hook"
Seven Species Mt Long Branch Pier.
weakhsh, croakers, kingnsh, fuke. black
hsh and lafayettes are biting at the pier
at Long Branch. Edward Reynolds Of
species of fsh on his trip--croaker. weak
FISH. kngnsh, nuke and lafayette. He had
% nan; sixteen Misn being Large sn ~. or
bluehsh from the pier and was awarded
IS prize. The bluehsh weighed three
pounds.
one Of the. high hook catches Of wednes-
day last wits that of August Delipno Of
Long Branch, croakers, weakhsh, IL
fuke.
NJ Altman says that "weaknsh and
croakers are here to stay for the annual
run up to October"
George ReynoIds's "Frcak' Fish.
The FISH caught by George Reynolds OF
Port Richmond. which he described as be-
ing butterfly shaped with two foot tail
head set in body, deep eye sockets, two
mouthlike cavities like the nostrils of
bulldog, tiny legs on the hind part and
double row of teeth Is what Is known as
a skate. 1t IL the commonest fsh known
to anglers Its wings are edible when
boiled and creamed. WILLIE BITE.
b5th street. Brooklyn. August ~.
Fulton on to Nova Scotia with Three Files.
Dr. ]. G. Fulton of the Anglers Club of
New York, who has been spending Vaca-
ton at Mount Vernon. n. h. leaves next
week for Bass River. Nova scot!a. where
he expects to hnd some good tronting on
his favorite lakes pnd streams Dr. Full
ton writes: II have my three favoritn nies
with me and viii let THE SUN know what
success I have"
Iron vs.. Lead for slnlscrs.
Seventeen Fathoms" writes in THE
SUN: 81 think 1t was the late Capt. Al
Foster who had a lot of iron sinkers cast
Why not do it again. Lead is very dear,
so what's the matter with cheap iron
sinker7 AS 1t Ia, we are robbing the rail-
roads every day In appropriating DIG
spikes Let some enterprisng fellow start
the game and make a fortune.
what Seventeen Fathoms says about
the need of a cheap sinker is very true. but
the matter Of an iron sinker Is Just TINS:
the iron will rust and the rust VIII eat
through the best OF lines. The difference
in the cost of slnkers will be made up by
the number of sinkers lost because OF the
rust eaten line and by the amount OF tackle
lost for the same reason II the sinker Is
left in contact with the upper part OF the
line for a day or so when the tackle 10
Again, the man who can AFFORD TO hsh
in these times can surely AFFORD to use the
best, which is. Of course, lead For these
reasons l do not think tho iron sihker
would find ready market.
There my be such thing as brass
swivel or other contrivance between the
sinlter and the line (which think would
also be marketed with difficulty or other
attachment which may put my theory aside
teen Fathoms" viii let me know.
write this. not to dash any enterprising
fellows hopes OF fortune, yet on the
other hand I do not wish to have anglers
suffer the misfortune of losing sinkers.
New York. Aug %. A. F. s.
Tuna and Bonito at Block Island.
During the week of August 1e there were
40 tuna. 100 bonito and swordnsh re-
| Island as being taken on rod and reel by
club members.
The heaviest nsh caught on light tackle
weighed IS pounds. Lawrence b. Jenckes
| OF Boston caught n tuna which had been
bitten in half by shark and the halt
which was left weighed 40 cRR ouSasA
Secretary. Atlantic Tuna Club.
| Ashaway, r. l., Aug. ~.
| Arthur Thornton or to Sea-
Arthur Thornton writes that he goes &c
| Wreck Lead to-day at A. NJ. to speno
| two days with Ribald George" Capt
| George Wilson Of the RosabeD.
| An Airedale Rescued at Sea-
! Fishing for nuke at Short Beach last
| Sunday. our attention was called 20 a DOS
| being carried out to sea. We went to the
! dogs rescue. The animal must have been
! in the water a long time. for when we got
| the dog into the boat II fell on Its side ex
| hausted. II was an hour before the AMI
| NAL was able to rise to its feet. The dog
| an Airedale, is at Conrad Baumgartner
| Sportsman avenue. Freeport, miro house
| on the creek. FRED MAIfbh'
A Letter to tho Old Timers.
We have picked up THE SUN morning
| after morning. We have looked or rather
| glanced down the column" time after
time looking and looking for any of the
old familiar names OF ten or more years
| ago, but In vain. Only on great occasions
90 we see Mature Factcr' or any Of the
other odd timers"
| Several times in the last ave years we
| have tried to draw a few words OF WIS,
com from the old fellows such as we u5ed
| &c have in the olden days. but few spas
modlc answers would be the only result
and our friends once more went intC
| oblivion. 49,.
| We have wondered II tho old timer
feel as we do--that we dropped the col
umn lust because II seemed too mucf
trout 10 tn write-because we were go busy
during the day that the evenings were
spent merely in rest and the perusal oil