Show TORCHLIGHT LIGHT FISHING IS NIGHTLY PASTIME E OF WAIKIKI SHORE Honolulu T. T II Torchlight fishIng fishIng fishing fish fish- ing off ocr the Waikiki shore Is now no noa a nightly feature with tho the Hawaiian and Japanese residents of that thal district the flares of a score of lI ugh lights ts II Illuminating lumi tho the shallow waters where the fishers men fishers men women and children spear children spear pear squids or wele weke and other toothsome toothsome toothsome tooth tooth- some fishes This method was wa u used a generation generation generation genera genera- tion ago b by tho Hawaiians HawaIIan It was one ono of or the chief ways was b by which a native nativo supplied his homo home with fish and flUd Is today tOllay being used b by many manyas as S a source of ot getting fresh fish for their tables The chief materials used In fishIng fishing fish fish- Ing Ingo with the light of or a n torch are aro tho the spear pear and the so called hand net The former Is sometimes a three pronged object This Is the best for tor spearing fish The single single- pronged spear peal Is generally used In spearing squids squid quid as only a single singlestick singlestick stick of ot spear is necessary to force torce the squid out of ot hi his hiding place which Is generally a hole In tho rocks When the pointed spear Is poked into the hole the squid draws Itself out and md clings onto the spear thus making It call easy tOT for forthe the thc fisher to grab b and kill it The net Is generally about two feet teet across and I If Is made so that a n. fish one Inch In diameter could not pass through the holes The fisher carries this In one hand and when In trying to spear the fish It escapes es escapes es- es capes the spear he puts the net into use ISO and chases the fish into It The different kinds of fish Ish caught b by the torch light and spear arc are squids large ekes 8 hue bus and Those caught with the net arc nrc generally small fishes and lobsters |