Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-02-18
BIZ Game" Haunt
In Atlantic Ocean

sSHow many fisherman realize that
there are found In the Atlantic ocean
| offshore between Miami and Key
| West nearly GOO varieties of hsh-an
amazing total which constitutes one
| fifth Of the entire fauna of the Amefi-
can continent north of Panama? ?" asks
John Oliver LaGorce In a commun1ca-
ton to the National Geographic So
| cfety which Is quoted, in part, in the
following bulletin:
What the rolling prairie of the Far
| West was to the buffalo in the olden
days, when it roamed in countess
thousands to and fro In search or
| ing Gulf Stream-that mighty, warm
river which parallels the east coast
| of Florida-is TO the fish legions of
our semi-tropical seas. .
ITO even sketch the possibilities OF
sport fishing along the far-tfung coral
reef off Miami. the southermost city
| of the Florida mainland n the fourth
in size within the borders of the State,
| one must discount the old question:
Are all fishermen Intentionally dis
ingenious, or do only lars fsh?' for
the facts concerning the variety,
lgameness, weight, and diversified color
| of the citizens of the deep, Astounding
in these waters, require a high rat
ing as to the personal veracity and
! the courage to prove that ancient pro-
verb about truth being stranger than
| fiction.
1.-The ~fresh-water fisherman. who,
armed with light tackle, matches his
wits against the quickness of the black
bass, the brilliant g~eneralship of the
brook trout, or the fierce charge OF
the muskellunge, in his inland streams
and lakes, may not consider 1t superior
sport to wet his line in salt water
along the North Atlantic coast, for
not man of the fish In cold seas
are considered foemen worthy OF his
steel.
"Yet a different story can be told
Of their warm sea brethren, and he
needs only to hun out, for example,
the fearless tarpon. the dashing sail
fish, or the powerful and valient bone
fish, not to mention a score Of other
finished fighters of the Gulf Stream.
to realize that he is called upon to
extend his every faculty and skill to
bring such game alongside as trophies
of his prowess.
"It would BIO interesting to have q
motion-picture record Of the thoughts
which lash through the mind of even
an experienced inland fisherman the
first time he feels the tiger-like swoop
of a five-foot barracuda. the yank
of a hundred-pound amberjack, or
the Sulten surge Ol q DlS STOuper OH
his line; for even when armed with
the heaviest rod, a reel as big IN COM
parison as the cylinder of an automo-
bile engine, and a Lint which ap-
proaches a hawser in thickness. he Is
pretty sure to wish, at least subcon-
isciously, that his equipment was twice
as formidable and his arm thrice as
strong.
what, indeed, must his sensation
! be the first time when. looking over-
board at his baited hook 80 feet be-
low in the clear waters of the Gulf
Stream, he sees. as plainly as IL in
a mirror. the approach and attack
of a giant Jewish, which is just as
likely to weigh 500 pounds as SO. for it
sometimes grows as big as q pony
along the Florida coral reef and is
just about as strong"
Work for Ralnmakers.
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