Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-29
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boots and waders? If you have no
more use for them until spring hang
them by the straps in a cool place.
Never fold them when not in use.
The attic or the store room in d
cool cellar are good places to hang
your rods during the winter months.
Keen them away from the heat. Do
not hang them near a radiator OF
steam pipes.
How Fishes Feed
Still fishing with live bait for bass
or pickerel is interesting sport. AS
your bob suddenly disappears and
you patiently or impatiently wait for
the proper moment to strike-some-
times hooking your fish but more
often not-do you know what Is
happening beneath the surface of
the lake or stream?
Most fish prey upon one another,
the larger feeding on the smaller
of their own or other varieties. The
large fish cannot swallow the small
Ter except head first, - the scales
and fms would act as a rasp, but as
the little fish would be away in Il
wink If he saw his danger it is
for the larger one to catch
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how n is done:
The large fish moves very slowly
through the water until directly
back of his proposed victim, when
he makes a sudden rush forward,
seizing the little fellow just back
of the gills, with its tail and the
pressure of his jaws he opens the
ofIIg 70 AIN S,,oo1Ja. fich ana xryhiI.
holding them open rushes through
the water a dozen or more feet, half
drowning his prey and then suddenly
releasing 1t, swallows it head first.
When fishing with live bait allow
ance must be made for this proceed
ure TO lie carried out, for If the
rod is struck before giving loose
line sufficient to go through this per-
Torrance, the big fish let's go the
bait before he has taken the hook
In his mouth. Don't strike too
soon and on the other hand don't
or pickerel fisherman is the one who
knows when to strike. This comes
by practice and experience.
Rain Cover
When caught in a rain storm
while fishing or rowing ashore, TX
p~erience mas taught most of us that
a rain coat never protects your legs.
Here Is a little kink that has it all
cover" the ordinary rain coat. Gel
a good Ilece of duck about seven
feet long and four feet wide, lap
one-quarter inch all around and sew.
Then about three or three and one
half feet from one end, or in the
middle las you prefer), cut a slit
large enough to slip over your head
and lap one-quarter inch and sew.
Then give it one or two coats of good
waterprooflng. This will not take
up much room in your duffle bag
and will be mighty useful when
needed.
Olympic Trapshooting Team
A tentative American trapshooting
team for the olympic games at Paris
next veal was announced recently by
the zone chairman of the Amateur
Trapshooting Association. 1t Is
made up of one shooter from eaeh
of the five zones of United States
and three members chosen at large
as follows:
Pacific coast zone, Frank M.
Troeh of Portland, ore.
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Mobridge, S. D.
Great lakes zone, w. II. Fawcett,
og Rohbinsdale, Mimi.
Southern zone Paul Earle OF
Starr S. c.
of Newfield, N. j.
At large Fred r. Etchen Of Cof-
feyville, Kan: S. II. Sherman of
salt Lake City. and W. S. Silkworth
Of New York City. .
An alternate for each principal
was also named, and the final selec-
tions, announcement said will be
determined by ability of the men
themselves either in elimination races
or practice shooting up to the time
of the Olympic matches.
Unlike most OF the teams that
participate in these games the trap
shooters will probably have to pay
their own expenses, 1t was stated.
Some Dog
Combination rod and gun dogs are
very scarce and one of the best tales
told concerning a canine compan-
ion of his type m from a
southern contributor to a sports
mans journal. The dogs owner
states the settlers intelligence is such
that on seeing his master leave the
house with a twelve gauge gun he
starts at once for the squirrel woods
and il the sixteen gauge is carried
he turns Immediately to the fields
for quail. AS a further test the
owner emerged from the door re-
Gently carrying a fishing rod, and
the dog fastened to the garden
where he was found industriously
| digging for angle worms. Some
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and we agree with him.
Fish Tagging
Tagging the sea fishes for future
reference has been the means OF
bringing to the Bureau of Fisheries
at Washington useful information
concerning the travels and develop
ment in weight of the inhabitants OF
finland. The following instance, re
corded in the latest issue of the
Fisheries Service Bulletin, is inter
J esting to sea fishermen in genera
and to those who are interested III
fish tagging in particular:
"While assembling the data al
hand, a matter of unusual interest
was discovered in connection will
goldfish No. 2S1. This fish was tag
ged June 2S 1928 on the Nantucket
Shoals Mass. 1t was r~ecaptured by
the Halcyon on October 8, 1928
and again on October Is, 1928, in
each case on Nantucket Shoals where
it was first tagged. 1t must be con
sidered a rare occurrence to eaten
the same fish three times on a hsh-
ing ground many square miles IT
urea and at least twenty miles from
land"
1t would be interesting to ksow
if any of our local deep sea nsher-
men ever caught a tagged fish. How