The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-02
FINE SPORT WITH
MACKEREL NEAR BY
Game Little Fish Plentiful in
Long Island Sound; Trout
Tackle Ideal.

Tackle Ideal.
Mackerel are biting IN the waters OF
Long Island Sound. The fishing may
last until the end of the week, it may
continue until mid-November. There is
is telling exactly when the fish will ar
rive or depart This season the fish are
rather late In taking the anglers bait.
The mackerel is the one salt water
fish that trout fishermen take to readily.
Any number Of fresh water men who
In other seasons laid aside their rods
when the trout season closed now keep
them in readiness since they have
learned of the Joys that this fishing az
fords.
Every angler has his favorite place.
James s. Petit Of the Anglers Club or
New York likes Rye Beach. Mr.. Petit
Is a good trout and bass angler, but is
also partial to the mackerel. He says;
Fright in our own Long Island Sound
we have a game fish that will put up
as good a fight as any trout its size, and
TO lovers of light tackle, !. e.. three,
four or Ave ounce fly rod can guaran-
tee some wonderful sport
Anchor your boat in a likely spot
Use plenty Of 'chum' made of fish oil,
sardines, salmon and salt water. This
will enable the fish to find your boat;
then more 'chum' to keep them in your
neighborhood., Now take your light fly
rod and set IL UP as for trout.
"These fish will take almost any
white fly on the surface, also small
piece of white tape one inch long ana
one-fourth inch wide or piece of the
white skin of a mackerel. same size, on
No. hook.
Fished for with Flies.
Cast from twenty to thirty-five feet
| and keep flies on surface as you take in
line, and at times five or more mackerel
Will follow until one hits your fly.
"In experimenting with flies l used
with success dry fly. No. IL hook.
| body silver, wings very light. l cannot
| call 1t by name but 1t was one of Louis
Rhead's creations."
George C. Hyde OF Port Washington,
A G.. Gumaer of Brooklyn, Joseph
Rindskopf of The Bronx and n. L.
Spaulding of Manhattan are all fond OF
| the little fish and each has his favorite
way OF fishing and manner of preparing
| the bait
Mr.. Spaulding gives this recipe for
mackerel bait: Take a can of sardines
| and pour off the oil into a wide mouthed
bottle. Pulverize the sardines in the
water: then make a stiff dough OF wheat
| flour and work the sardines through 1t in
the proportion of about one-third or one
fourth sardines. Take a piece OF
this bait, put It on small hook and
then dip II into the oil in the bottle be-
fore putting 1t overheard. Small pieces
Jf the bait are very good for cumming
and keeping the fish around"
|
Recipes for Making Bait.
George c. Hyde gives this advice to
the prospective mackerel fisherman :
The best way to go prepared for mack
| erel is as follows: Get three or four
mossbunkers and cut the sides off for
bait Use a small piece. the size of a
pea, for bait. Take the remainder of
the mossbunkers and grind them up in a
food chopper and carry this TO the
grounds In a small pail
when at the fishing ground mix the
ground up mossbunker with water and
put in a small quantity of cylinder oil,
II obtainable.
| Wrap a rag on the end OF n short
stick in the shape of a brush. stir up the
chum with this and every once in a
while toss the substance that clings to
the brush overheard close to the boat.
II this fails go ashore there are no
macKerel around LION leeu 100 HuCh
chum.
ALSO .the mackerel itself is a good
bait II should be cut up in pieces as
large as a pea and used on a very small
sneiled nat fishhook."
Joseph Rindskopt believes that any old
place in Long Island Sound will do, pro-
viding you have the bait Worms. clans,
shrimp or bunker for bait or chum will
do" he says; "or cut up n mackerel and
put a small piece on No. 10 limerick
or sproat hook (same as founder hooks)
and fish about six feet under, just so you
see your bait in clear water, and, presto
you get a strike and If you don't use a
sinker your line switches through the
water as II you had a weakflsh hanging
on the end.
This fishing will be a revelation to
you, something new. Not the old method
Of fishing on bottom in vogue among
Sound fishermen"
IF the anglers OF New York knew
what fine mackerel fishing there is to be
had In Long Island Sound" says A. G
GumaeF, they would beg. borrow or
steal money for railroad fare and fish
ing equipment Spearihg. little piece
about the size Of a pea. put on the point
OF the hook. is an ideal bait"
Combination Brings Results.
Another angler, familiar with mack
erel fishing, gives these suggestions as to
bait: "In case the angler uses cut up
ruackerel and they don't seem to bite fast
enough. try and remove the skin from
bait and see the result.
This is best done by leaving a few
rnackerel lying about exposed to the air
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