Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-02-28
AN INCIDENT
RELATED BY
THE SKIPPER
Baraboo Man In Los Angeles Re-
peats Tale on Fishing and Fish
Feeding
gy DR.. r. o. RANsoME

Of the time years ago when was
over at Avalon, Catalina island. run
ming a boat, taking those who like
sport fishing, such as shark, deep
sea bass and such. l was there one
afternoon on the wharf, after tidying
up my boat, and notices a couple OF
city girls having their picture taken
standing by couple of two-fifty
pound Jew fish and shark that had
been brought in and were hanging
up.
There was one fellow with them,
a likely looking chap who was TAX
ing the picture-but somehow one
of the girls couldn't get fixed, either
a hair was in her eyes or frill on.
of place, but anyway after a time She
managed to settle down for a mo-
ment and he snapped the picture.
'You see," continued the skipper,
II had been fishing off the island for
a few years, this was away back
when the Bannings owned the island
and before the fire at Avalon. The
Bannings had owned it for years and
long before then it was inhabitated
by Indians and was quite spot to be
lonesome in and then after the
Banning's had held it awhile along
comes this chewing gum magnate,
this man Wrigley, and l guess" and
here the skipper paused to re-light
his pipe, 81 guess" he continued.
THAT Mr.. Wrigley got SO tired OF
the snappin' and chewin' made by
his family and friends, that he want
ed a. nice quiet place to rest-so he
ups and buys the whole island. I'll
could hear snappin' might have been
some sea turtles or the brush undel
his feet as he walked And point
ing with his pipe stem, I saw in the
dim distance the outline of the is
land some twenty or more miles away
from the harbor But what abOus
the RlTlS anu IuG O0hONs
Well" unused the skipper" that's
so, l nearly forgot They wuz a-stand-
in there and all of a sudden the
young chap comes over, and asks me
if | takes people out fishin'. ! al
lowed as how l did. Then he ups and
tells me that he's from Boston and
as always wanted to fish for the
sport of it and wants me to take them
out Well I kinda hesitated for |
wasn't caring particular on having
sick sailors on my hands. While l
wcs hesitatin' this girl who had the
frills and ribbons up and says that
she would love it, that even though
having never fshed on the ocean, she
felt she was a natural sailor, it being
born in her from somewhere back;
some cousin by marriage had fallen
overheard goin' up the Maine coast
and had been saved.
"The other girl stood lookin' on
and not saying a word. Well, after
few minutes and quite some per
su4sion, l finally consented to take
them out for day of it the following
morning.
, Trip is Planned
eve arranges for the fshin' and
began to get things ready for them.
Early next morning we goes. 1t was
a lovely morning, the water was
pretty smooth even out in the chan
mel and it wasn't long until we were
circling the southeast end of the is
Iand-for off the seal rocks round on
the south side was the best fishin'
for the deep sea bass or Jew fish as
we calls them.
1T was just as we'll that the girls
had their pictures taken on the
wharf with the big fish, before we
started because what they caught"
here the skipper paused to- chuckle
IS he reflled his pipe. WELL" he
continued. 1--WE got off the seal rocks
clear OF the island and ran into a
choppy sea, After little. run far
Their on / drops anchor about a mile
off shore and they all let out their
lines. You see,s I had ba1ted them
with Albicore heads-which is pretty
good bait for the fish they were af-
ter
Again he paused to light his pipe
at wasn't long he continued, "Uh.
til somethin' happened. It's funny
how sittin' in small f1shin' boat,
anchored lookin' down at the water
in a choppy sea how it makes some
people mighty peeHish inside4''
| Again he chuckled. 1T wasn't long
until she of the frills spoke right
| up in meetin' real sudden-like and
| said that she figured fishing for big
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