Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-07
WIN, LOSE OR
tDkAW By FRANCIS s1ANN
On the Good Ship Neoqo

STUART, FLA, MAR. THE Neoga beat her way
down the mudded St Lucie River and bobbed the
inlet and headed south for the reef toward Hobe Sound
That is where the Spanish mackere and the bluefSh
play, and Capn Dale Moves knows it.
Capn NoyeS is charter boat captain, and not fancy
one. His Neoga small antique which fishes only two
persons There countless layers of paint the old
bddy and the spindleS on the small wheel are tire
tapped multi-colored and aged.
Capn NoyeS doesn't He's out after fish and
to go out with him is almost guarantee to tenderfoot
that he'll have and wrists for couple of days
Never went for that Saishing," he says. "It'S too
slow. Sometimes you drag mulet for S. 6 hours, and
nothing happens like it fast and furious.
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THERE is NO TELLING how many fish Noyes
catches but usually they're ackere blues They hit
hard, fastand often They sell the market The aver
age fisherman doesn't want than two for
his table. The rest keep" Dale explains.
Moves is weather beaten guy of almost So who
born in Kansas where there big water but moved
with his family to West Palm Beach at an early age AS
soon as he got out of high school, back In "a he started
a fishing boat mate.
Dale averages something like rs Spanish mackerel
and bluefsh day during the average To-day tourist
season. Multiply that by SO years and you get fair idea
OF how fish he has taken off the spoons and feathers
OF snowbirds from up north
In his day mate and captain, Noyes has
hShed most of this country. 1--WE never gone after
Chinook salmon or the steelhead" he admits $50 can't
pose like any expert But know the fish like to catch
and eat and know the fish that think
overrated."
THE THREE FISH that get the publicity in Florida
are sailsh tarpon and bonefsh Stuart bills itself
the "Sailsh capital of the world" and perhaps it is
legitimate although the sails caught off Stuart not
run large those off Acapulco the California coast
"An overrated fish," Cap'n Noyes says drly "Oh,
sailsh is all right if you've got and need
something stuffed and hung the wall of room.
salSh is thing of beauty all right don't happen
to be saifSh man."
Throughout the greater part of the United States,
and particularly in the Middle West the black bass
well liked. Noyes mods sagey when the observation
is made. IT guess it's fine fish," he comedies "but did
you ever catch pompano on very light gear and then
broil it short time later? Man {. . that's fishing and
eating!"
THE Willy BONEFISH one Of Ted Williams favorte
targets in the Florida keys, is highly rated by sport
fishermen because he is tricky and sneaky. "r williams,
whoever he u.s. have the bonesh" says Capn Noyes
II think the bonefsh like the sash is overrated too.
Besides after you've caught what good is it? like
fish that fights and, once caught, good the table,
And tarpon?
can acrobatic fish, no doubt" says Noyes land
very difficult for novice to boat. Yet when you
down to it, the tarpon isn't much the better he's
cracked up to be. He'll Jump all right sometimes
into your boat but he doesn't make that long
very often and make your line sing
If you weren't charter captain, but just fisherman
with knowledge what kind of fish would you consider the
best sport? tourist asked Noyes. 81 mean what would
you shoot for?"
Dale grnned as he hunched his wheel. big
kings" he said. 81 it big kings"
HERE THEY CASUALLY refer to king mackerel as
"kngs" On the opposite coast Of Florida Bradenton,
Sarasota and st. Pete they call them kingfish. They
and the same
They don't Jump" Noyes was saying, "but the
mackerel family about fast anything that swms.
kngfsh about Is pounds the bigger the better
not only is hard to hook but he'll give you hell I'm not
talking about little kings I'm saying that when you get
a 10 in fOr work
Just about that time rod bent and there
silver flash top of the Another Spanish mackere
Capn Noyes waited until the novice reeled the fish
astern and put the Hopping fish into the box.
Say what you want to about fish, he said. but day
in and day out you won't find much better eating fish
than the Spanish split and broied with butter and
paprka The boat speed when you troll kills EN- of too
fast Someday wen anchor and spin :"