The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-10-29
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| mornings are sufficiently cool to bring
| them into the bayous from the era IS
mats and shadows in the bay, there's no
use expecting them to do their darndest,
because they won't s= ~-r
| BUT holy smoke, how the black snap-
pers are hitting 'em up everywhere,
ana OF course black snappering is a
tt'o eslhaniy pastime' notwithstanding
| us Niger fishing" game That is
! co say these uncannily smart little Ger-
lzens OF the deep, won't hit an artificial
| Iufe and must be taken with HOOK and
me Eleven Mile creek has been fine
and dandy for them The past ten DAYS
or two weeks, and Bill Ardie Mosalev
| mas been working the little black boys
| over time ever since they started. JIe
and Charlie Williams, the big blond
! BOY who so courteously passes out cor-
Zee ana sandwiches at the Kozy Korner
We're out there on Monday and Tuesday
afternoons. And again on Friday after
noon Bill Ardie, Frank Carter and Torn
| hurst was out OF course I'm aware
that this sounds "flshy," but Bill Ardie
Fouches for 1t, therefore it must 3e so:
On none Of the trips that he has made
during the week has he counted his own
and his fishing partners snappers-he
has simply been measuring them by the
peck, and he has gotten more than Il
! bushel of them.
But I'm little ahead of my story; I
was really going to tell about an expe-
dition of g day and a half In which Bill
lie Wilson, Dick McAlister, "Reinie"
Reinschmidt. Doc" Tiher Ofville Ben
nett, Geo. Whltmire and Geo. Shaw par
ticipated They were fresh watering
and took the river at Ferry Pass, going
thence as far up as Large Lake, where
they camped over night and fished back
through White river, / had great diff
ticulty in securing an authentic story of
the party's catch, so very Inconsistent
were the different estimates given by
members of the party. At last however,
located DOC" FILLER, who, as every
body knows Won't even eXaggerate a
catch of fish. He said that they got
around seventy-five, blue gills, chinQue
pins and google eye and enough squir-
rels for supper; also that "Reinie" made
100 per cent record shooting squirrels;
he shot at one and got it.
And then there was another fresh
watering party during the week, COM
posed of Pat" Petersen, Empire
!. Tire" Dickinson. Uncle Dave" Jami-
son and Wing Hop the north PalafoX
street Chinese merchant who Is one of
Pcnsacolas most ardent and ethical
sportsmen. I haven't been able to get
an authoritative statement of the catch,
because I havnt been able TO see Hop. |
but the story goes that pat" got over
bed of ronkers and spots" and though !
he was catching black snappers until {
he got back to the landing late in the |
afternoon.
OF course there were droves Of Dips |
out yellowmouthing Sunday and also OF
course, they got some f1sh, but not |
skads of EN- like they would have got |
ten had the morning been crisp and
frosty OF course there were nuurer- |
Gus parties out, but the only ones on |
which I've been able to get line, were
the following: Gus villa, Red Mar !
tin and Clyde Lindstrom who got !
bunch of Sc out at Escambia trestle |
And Charlie Wilson and Walter Feng- |
ling, who also fished out at the trestle |
and got 30 beauty brights of the genus |
vellowmouth Then too, I understand
that Jim Scholls' Randall Bell and '"Tur- /
ner Supply Baxter, the latter hailing |
from the fshless village located on the |
canal extending from Fort Morgan to |
the mouth of the Alabama river, and !
known to the ancients as Mobile, nied !
themselves out to Harris on the Lagoon,
where they got string OF Wampuses
descended from some yelloWmouth De-
scended from prehistoric lineage. Then |
also, I've been told, some half dozen ar
dent disciples OF your uncle tsaak Wal |
ton. oozed out to Eleven Nfiie' creek |
during the wee srnaa' Hours Of Sunday |!
moorning;. that they creeled goodly
number of Observation-Disclosures enough |
for their dinner-that Uncle Walker
Humphreys essayed the role Of cook
for the meal and that-weli, the last
account that had Of the story tlle
bunch around the Sportman's supply
Store were going down on a list to buy
Uncle Waiker'H a pair of ASBESTOS
gloves to be worn when he again essays
the role of cook
And right here I'm reminded of dan
dy fishing trip which charhe' 3laS
Snort Kupfrian, Sam Clipper and John
Roberts took last week. They lett sun
day morning for the mouth Of PeFdldo
bay. intending to spend the week. or
at least until Friday evening. However,
they returned Thursday morning, re
porting plenty of yellowmouths. but not
a single. solitary "Bulf red" And as old
Lady Luck" would have it, it turned
out that they returned just 4 day too
soon. Lee Walker brought word to town
Friday morning that there were acres
on acres Of "big bulls" perambulattng
around the mouth Of the bay Thursday
afternoon And of course Harry Root
and Paul Brock beat it for Innerarity |
noint first thing Saturday morning. Get
any? Not that I've heard Of.
This is already entirely too Ions, but
r CAN'T close it without informally intro
ducing to your favorable consideration
another entirely now Dip who just hit
town last Monday And he's another
one Of the fellows who's. going to give
pensacola and the entire West Florida
section jim dandy swell elegant up
tolnow newspaper in The Journal
refer to ]. V Honstt, who is a genius
for circulation. as well as plumb down
right fool about fishing. True, he was
transplanted here directly from Cincin-
natl. which. if you recall your geo
6bio, and which as you know If you
arc familiar with piscatorial folk lore
is famous for it's catfish all the way
from irwin cobb's town Of Paducah, 20