The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19
juggling FOR BLUES :
IN BARNEGAT BAY
Shiny Squid Attractive: Fish
Eager for Moving Object
That Looks Like Food.
INLET MEETING GROUND
Season for Duck, Goose and
Brant Now Open in New
Jersey.
INLET MEETING GROUND
by w. II. BALLOU.

ooht Is not signaling and is not In
danger. He is merely jgging for fish
NO need for you to put on dxtrs
power and speed up your craft to save
his life. Better anchor alongside OF
him and do little jigging yourself
II is the swift way to catch 'em al
this season of the year in the Inlet
or Barnegat bay. close to tine tall light
house, which the public and space
writers Cat so much peri believe is soon
u topple over. but which myself and
other engineers know will be standing
there for a century hence. IN spite of
all the oceanic waves of the Atlantic.
ltc rotund base OF 55 feet of solid ma
sorry below the surface will hold It
against wind and sea.
Out of old Barnegat daily goes a
fleet of little sneak boxes and larger
craft to tho Inlet to Jig for fish for
the markets. It's the simplest known
process of catching the finny ones in
indefinite numbers, species and sizes
The Jig comprises a small bluefsh
squid of lead. daily scraped with a
knife TO make II shiny, and attached
70 few feet of stoutest biuefsh line.
You work one in each hand on oppo-
site sides Of the boat. Its weight car
ries the jig swiftly down into water and
YOU jerk it out swiftly to attract VIC
tins.
Various Species by Jigging.
Carnivorous fish cannot stand a NOV
ing object that looks like food. They
must grab 1t, So, in the wild process
OF waving the arms up and down. the
1gger is constantly yanking into the
boat whatever is hooked, bluefish, weak
fsh. sea bass, croakers, &C. The Inlet
at this season of the year Is the COM
mon meeting ground of these and other
species, so our commercial friend seizes
the opportunity to add to his postal
savirgs account
Curiosity led me to drop kedge and
try my luck in the common lottery. not
for pay but just for instance-and the
full fish-box. Matters went BULLY I'M
I'll my unaccustomed arms kicked I
soon had enough of such hard work,
when 1 wanted more play, and besides
1t was too easy to catch 'em.
Next, I dropped over on the edge
OF 'the rollers, breaking in magnificent
surf along the shoals. Here, instead
or jigging, / attached the squid to my
fshline and cast over in the surf. Reel
ing in. as fast as possible, I. hooked a
bluefsh, then another then others.
Soon. the rising tide threw the rollers
my way and fairly hoisted the rowboat
out of water The bottom of the Inie.
Is OF smooth, white sand. so l rowed
along, dragging the squid on this at
tractive floor, where the squid shone
IL the sunlight Blues grabbed the squid
hero also. until / got tired of blues.
weakhsh Fought Eleven Minutes.
The weight of big weakfsh was on
my conscience. after a summer of seek
ing out their haunts. fighting with them
and getting some of them in the row.
boat So. drifted inward with the
commencing flood tide dragging baited
hooks until one took hold. He was some
hummer alright and fought for eleven
minutes to dis!odge the hook.
The water was too deep. and the
hazards at hand too few for him to
break the tackle and he finally cam, |
aboard grunting his peculiar grunt, |
which he kept grunting for long time
in the fishbox. AS soon as he was |
hooked, l had tossed the kedge over |
board, knowing that he had companions /,
near.
! got those companions, or at least, !
some of them, and got them by the OLD !
time method we love and live for And
who would slave for a Rockefeller for 3
tune when he could just as we'll struggle |
with large and husky weakhsh?
September has been the anglers ideal
month. Most of the days were warm.
dry and cloudtess. September Is really O.
the third and last month of summer,
winch really commences July j, since
the sun does not until then get fairly
turned back from its northern tourney.
nor do the days really begin to shorten
until about the first of October
Crowds of anglers on the water grad
lal.y red'ce after Labor Day, but gun
nera take n, ir places, continuing the
gaiety Of nations
II possible, should say that more
and larger fish have been taken this
September than during the prior two
mcnths. Certainly. as many anglers
anne in autos stayed as long and got
as satisfactory results October may
be less warm, more rainy and generally
oleake-, but 1t is a safe bet that tho
hsh will remain here all through II
and take bait or squld as greedlly as
sver
once out Of the Forked River estuary
IN the great Barnegat Bay and the ro-
nance is there, even II no sail whitens
he horizon line and the plunk, plunk of
he motorboat Is but little heard. II the
lsh won't take the hook In the deep
loles Of the bay or channels, they will
II the inlet and on the ocean front.
Waterfowl Season Open.
The biggst fish await the angler mere
for casting for them in the surf Sr oil
hotels remain open all the year around
'long the whole Jersey coast, 30 that an [
'ler and gunner may be comfortably
ared for The duck. goose and brant
eason De-Nn last Thursday. The angler
.aS the beS, Of II, since the gunner must
'e out of bed IN the cold long before
avn and get his stand before the first
freaks Of day In order to get the birds.
our angler can lay abed, rise when he
Hooses. hsh when he pleases and gen.
rally put It all over the gunner.
IL is safest for anglers to bring bait
WIN them hereafter. However, I have
armed to net my own bait and also to
.et many other things. In rowboat s
"e along within ten feet OF the bay Z
more. swiping soft, shedding, buckllng, I
'ning and hard crabs out Of the sea I
aopage patches. Here is not only all
no Dalt you want but lots OF food be- ,
lles expensive to buy
IN these polling expeditions often note
Ens or Urge fish inshore feeding In I
i'low water They also like the va I
led stages Of crabs mentlaned. II ia I
no work of an instant to Hit hook and '
as' Tor them, sometimes with a float a J
oct and a half above the hook and
'Wetimes merly casting out on the bot
0m slowly Keeling in the bait. And all
) hsh that comes to your nook. Once IN 7
Ty life ON Il Grabbing stunt found my :
ct entirely surrounded by a school of q
.aeush and pulled them In an entire Z
-Iefnoon in two feet OF water.