The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-17
GAME TUNA BITE
AT SQUAN RIDGE
Al Pound Specimen Taken by
Van Camper Heilner of
Spring Lake, N. J.
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MONSTER CUTS LEADER
Atlantic Species Heavier and
Show More Fighting Spirit
Than Pacific Fish.
MONSTER CUTS LEADER

Tuna are biting or Seabright and at
souan Ridge, twenty-five miles of
Manasquan, N. J.. coast. Van Camper
Heilner of Spring Lake, has taken a
fish of forty-one pounds. six ounces and
lost another that he was unable to
hold. The fish he landed won for Mr..
Heilner the blue button OF the Tuna
Club of New Jersey.
Nov is a good time to go for tuna"
said Mr.. Heilner yesterday to a reporter
of THE SUN. TUNA come In usually
about the first week In August and re-
main Off the Jersey coast for about
two months, August and September,
September being the best month of the
two. II the weather holds favorable,
the fish remain into October then start
on their southern migration.
Tuna run larger on the Atlantic
coast than they do on the Pacific.
think they have more fighting spirit.
You will recall that ]. X. L. Ross
caught a tuna Of $50 pounds and Laurie
d. Mitchell one Of TO pounds in Nova
Scotia waters. The big tuna that we
struck on Squan Ridge snapped two
outriggers we had out, and these out
ringers were rs thick as my arm. You
can imagine what happened to our
leader with fish capable of doing that.
Tuna on the Atlantic coast will
weigh all the way from 500 pounds to
1900 pounds. I recall some years ago
that Frank Crowninshleld hooked and
played a tuna at Cape May weighing
about 800 pounds which he brought up
to the boats edge. The line parted
and the captain instantly grabbed what
remained, knotted It quickly and Crown
inshield took hold Of the reel again.
The fish made a rush, the knot failed
to hold and the tuna got away. Both
the captain and Crowninshield place the
weight at 800 pounds easily.
werthefm Holds Record.
only the other day tuna got caught
In the meshes OF a net OF the Belmar
net fishermen and they arrived in time
before the fish was able to cut its way
out The tuna was brought ashore at
Belmar and at the fish market 1t weighed
1900 pounds. 1t was put into a fish
wagon and its tail stuck out Of the back
OF the wagon two or three feet.
The record fish Of the coast taken
with rod and reel is held by Jacob Vert
helm of the Asbury Park Fishing Club
anad the Tuna Club of New Jersey. His
fish weighed 2s6 pounds. The second
largest fish was taken by r. p. Townsend
| anu WeiBHeu 1Ho - pOunus.
1.-THE father OF tuna fishing on the
New Jersey coast,is Fred b. Alexander
whose heaviest fish weighed ninety eigh,
pounds Sixty-f1ve pound fish have beer
taken by Paul Won Bochmann and vii.
| liam Scheer. g .-,..-
"Other men who have taken what we
| call blue button tuna are Samuel II
Clarke, Harry H. Maddox, Charles Saw.
age. Joe Cawthorn, J. s. English. VIII.
liam Leavitt, Jr., Fred Abrams and E. B
Smith.
seabrisht Men Dislike Tuna.
Tho way to catch tuna is to make
an arrangement with the Seabrigh,
fishermen who go out daily for bluefist
to hoist an oar when they find tuna are
feeding in the slick. Now the Sea-
bright fishermen are not fond of tuna
which are known to them as horse mack.
erei. for the tuna cut their biuefsh lines
and when a school Of tuna feeds in the
slick put overheard they drive away the
/ bluefish.
| thus the angler for tuna makes an