Show ANGLING NG LING 1 4 ANGLERS Ii i MONSTER FIBBING Angling That TJ t Beats eats Tar Tarpon Tarpon TarPon pon Hauling Washington Star tine begins gins the season for or monster along the Atlantic tlc coa coast l from f E 1 ng 5 va Scotia to the Chesapeake capes The L sportsman portman who wades out o t into the ther The f to Batch eatch ch the bC big fish that swim f f st r t m in the break of the waters blind t b sniff at the mention of tar tarn 2 n or OrDY tuna catches for the outfit used the men ren n who go after these great greath b DY tt b h is s Jum y and murderous us when mP lr with ith the graceful tap n tap MOl rode thin lines Jines and tackle of the northern II The n fishing Is sport In every JO inae ase This fish must be fought usual iT Ir 1 jih it hut ut the aid of a boat They must t f b killed by the rod because the thera ra X Ie s g to tOO light to handle them by main i It r and they must be landed In lr n t Dal baj A 1 water rt Tf r and generally by the ang lir him l 11 f for tor most of the surf fisher fishermen men mn li the thc use or of r a gaff gat aff hook book bookIn in the northern north rn fisherman p m t t H l 1 often chest deep Into bois bole boist boleI t I rots rollS turf in order to cast c l his line to oJ to th f roper spot Ii fish tish are arc landed every season Flit But r i w are not published broad broadcast cast a t T i l big fishing of ot the Atlantic l a fK h i one me ne of the best kept of sport sportIng sporting Ing e eThe r The taped i ip d bass king of salt water 1 1 h list lIat There are several scores of t ri i in New York Bos Bost t tn n Ph i Baltimore and Wash Vash i gt i 1 fish for tor this beautiful fel fe feI j I 1 Kand aud ii none other ether through almost all the era ra foa refraining retraining only for a few tew s n winter Every one of these m n di d ams ms oC of a monster weighing more pounds Many of or them save ban aught fish weighing more than half bal a hundredweight Jim Flynn of or ofa ora ya a Sall cau iu Street Direct New York known to every een sportsman In the country countr lost loston one on that being bt ing caught subsequently in ina a It y seine with uth Flynns hook sun still In Me his jaw jA lIas n as ts found to weigh pound An n expert fisherman has just left lert Vw New e York lork on an Investigating tour i c semi sinned by a half dozen rich anglers who sho want him to find a spot there thore are striped bass weighing la 0 p Funds or more They have told I m that they tI are tired of ot thirty and They want real fish The Tb expert already has found one place I n here as is he reports striped bass fjon ten to twenty pounds are thicker than fleas fl as on a dog This Is off of New N S but hut he is not sure that any an bigger bass can be found there and Intends to hunt further of b buss bass ss weighing from five to tn t fifteen pounds are taken along the thep p beaches every season Beason by the striped bass anglers anger who go after the big bic bi ones They rarely record these rat hf To really interest them a aba a abass abass ba bass s must weigh at least twenty pound Channel bass or red drum the huge fish fl h that can ran crush rush oysters In their strong trong jaws are arc also hunted by the he sportsmen who look for tor big game They rang ranse Tan larger in size t than an the striped bass ba but are not quite as game crame How Ho ever eyer they ther are strong and determined d fighters and as they not uncommonly neigh more morp than pounds their cap capture capture ture tests the mett meW of ot man and rod r d Last car sear G P jr son ROC of the New pw York banker caught one off of Edgemere that weighed sixty pounds And these great fish are taken with rods that save for the heavy reel seat and ferrules would weigh not more morel than ten f r quality the th lines hoes shells and hooks used ate are such i as u are arp used generally for the ordinary angling for salt water fish weighing from mm three to four pounds Surf Sur fishing is the method followed meet The angler wades wodes out Into the c f ea a and casts his bait to the spots where he expects that the big fish are feeding Trolling with worm orm or crab bait Mit from a boat that Js is sculled slowly oer over likely places is another almost equally popular method Still sun fishing from an anchored boat Is Isa a third form of It striped bass baas fishing but It is more popular ular with the anglers who ho are after the ordinary run of small bass than It itIs Is with those who look for the big fel lows 10 WS Surf fishing Is la the most exciting of or them all The angler has not only the fish h but the sea to fight And AndIn in the broad backed baked surge that ever rolls roUs and tumbles toward him there swim huge things that ho he is la not fishing for tor but must battle with when they t e choose to take hIs hs book hook Sharks and skates and hunt along the th surf just as th monster striped bass bas and channel bass and bluefish and weakfish do Thus ThUR and John Du Til TU of ot New T Tk rk standing waist deep in a leaping tumble of o sea one morning on Long beach h Lend Lond Island hooked eight Ight great sharks hark The biggest of or them was more than fire feet teet long The Thep were sere fishing without gaff hooks and had hal no choice holce but to work the sav age creatures until they were played pla ed oat lat Then they reeled the fish In till lilt UJ rould QuId reach them and suddenly them by the tail taU ran them up he bea bf a h The biggest one being thus ee zed b by turned like light lighting ing rg ng and ad bit at him furiously He Jumped away and was barely arel quick m to tn save his legs The shark tP aa away a great piece of his water pron i z i if rs and the fragment is pre pm j is ts a souvenir In the bm 1 nO now no t mip nil mi nj dangerous than the shark He Ut is I extremely f extremely like the skate sk to in ap t aranc t but at the th end of of his long t I he carries a a keen thorn like tl the sn 11 11 ff of If a 8 game ame cock co k The swift r t s I v rh H which he can thrash that lImp M f d ail if I around is astounding Its Inn hard as the snap r 1 r f ii he lash of a n teamsters whip and t th n urn tim Is m as accurate Southern t fishy h declare that the thorn is Js as asas t J as are the fangs of a snake This Ably his J ol u a JK But Bu the thick nasty rm i 1 h the ray raj ra is coated can often orten does not need such ad t 1 v er pr for tor it is cruel enough L Its irs Jt Itsu md and makes wounds that may II e I i V the I h victim h for life Ufe The spur r Hi ui of a n full grown specimen specimens s three or four tour Inches in length nit all of tiny wicked barbs that tha t ar I tenacious Thrust the th a ugh a piece of tissue paper i i will x hold so 80 well wen that It ithie iHlo hie Ihl to withdraw It without t t paper pap r all to pieces u is tail salt t n Is whipped around with t tf nt f equal to its swiftness fn e n stepping around aroun on the ra fan h t the ie angler ausler Is necessary when wIlen d Ie i 1 aree A fish that ca can i o of P deep into the plank lan k 1 With ith one swoop ss a is not likely Ukel likely to ie or I ra mi nu h account of or of wading boots boot s ar an i i Therefore the Uta 1 backward as fast as th the theft e t t l r ft him and does not essay essay j 1 hf hi ugly u I best beast be st until he lIe hun him a hp the sand above the surf Then Theal s th the rest restIng Ing demands the use of a aIK at t 1 t Ong IK reel rel for casts cas s of from 10 l p 0 pA A t f ar are essayed essa syed ed by b the fife experts ec p fI mk r rarely weighs more than tha thas rt th th s and often orten is s as light as asU a s r t ats U of or this length demand not no t b but n t a I amount of strength g Kat at ar skill The h big hi reels are ure are so CC s eA A r t that if the thumb does doe s K 1 them the m at just the proper mo mon mod II f d n with the proper q Qt f an aY d y the line will be overrun and an d snarl narl follows or the line anh P 1 too suddenly H will part like lik e t rya T The 9 P ert when c 4 out In lh the surf aria and d at 1 to j cast Bt the long butt buU butts buUs bu tt s a with i th his bis l left ft tt band baad firmly f The right hand grasps the rod Just be I low tow the reel in such a position that the hand Is s clear of the reel handle while the thumb rests lightly on the I spool sp ol of the reel In the J of the thc thumb lies the who whose whole c secret of ot a clean cast The rod is held out In front of the angler to make sure that the line and hook are arc hanging free Then it Ills Is swept slowly sideways and backwards and the next Instant Is sent forcibly but not jerkily forward with a sweep that rends ends the loaded line flying In a semi semicircle semicircle circle until it is js straight ahead when an imperceptible check of the therod rod gives the cast it 11 its i true tru direction The thumb mu must t be In position to control the cast from from the very Inception of r the maneu ver As s onas as the th forward flight of or the line JIle lessens less ps the thump begins to check the reek reel The expert ad justs this pressure press r so s carefully that his reel stops revolving resolving simultaneously with the tall tail of ot the sinker into the sea Six hundred d feet teet of ot light casting line is carried on the reel usually The rods are fitted with strong exceptionally large guides few e as possible in number and all aU set flet with agate to reduce fric tion Single joint rods with dent butt pieces are coming into favor more and more mor The woods used us d most are and Split Spilt bamboo would be Ideal for the work except for I r the fact that salt nil water mater oft ott often otten often en Sottens the glue slue so 80 much mu h that the strips go apart and as a result the rod buckles bUckle Only hook took Is used by most an anglers anglers who go go after the big lg fish Sproat Is they thet the favorite It Is mounted on a agut agut agut gut leaner leader le ler from three e to five feet long Jong and adjusted to the line with a ad double uble action The rhe sinker flanker Js is tied to tb t the end the leader pf p th Jl e b three fee below low bale balf la Is blood worm amarina a amarine amarine marine marina worm n found on the beaches b hes among tHe tEe rocks at water 1 mark rk UK Its name n ine describes It It looks some somewhat some me what like the th garden Worm but buUs butis is fiat flat ter In shape much brighter in olor and full of or deep red blood So much in demand is this bait all along the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Chesapeake lay bay that one New York dealer has been be n selling a day dur ing the last two weeks and still is not supplying the demand Though the big fish haunt all the beaches yet cf successful surf fishing la Is confined to a a comparative few For the sands that th tare are stirred by the breakers break rs are arc full fun of queer perplexing little and big holes and furrows furr and the man mann who does not cast la in the right place might as well veil be fishing in a golf links for Ichthyosaurs as as in Inthe the surf for tor the big bass Even a a foot too far or riot not far tar enough will make mak all the difference between en catching fish and not The experts not only study the conditions perpetually but many of them also Say ray ra local fishermen to keep them informal of the changes which are so frequent where the surf p pounds and burrows and drives day after day They know therefore just where here to drop their baits If they the feel that their theft sinker is resting Testing on a little submarine I ridge they ther will m draw in just dust enough I line to make It fall fail into the run runway that they th y Know Is at Its base or or vice versa Consequently they the are are just as as uni uril successful as s the ordinary ordin r an angler gler g ler is unsuccessful Thus Mr Ur Ir Moro Mora Moronts tai channel bass b sa was hooked h and nd beached within of an hour sifter alter he had arrived ed edat d dat at the beach In almost the same space pace s e of time two years ears ago he landed a striped bass on the New Ness N Jersey coast coat nd John fiu u Til Tn beached more than bluefish b weighing from ten to Fifteen pounds p each e off of the Xong island shore Two other famous amous surf fishermen e illiam W H now of phia and Harry AV Y Quick Their fa v grounds are from Asbury park south s along the New Jersey Jers beach and they hey the t boast Of t catches of qC striped boa bass s weighing well weB up into half hair a hundred hundredweight weight weigh w t tAr A Ar record l rd catch patch that they made in i n three t days clays at t Port Md lid still stilla Is 15 Isa a topic of excited conversation In that little li place on the Susquehanna where the big fish congregate in wonderful numbers umbers n In those three days das from fro m Sept S ept 1 to Sept 3 Inclusive they cap t striped bass which weighed altogether a 1061 pounds The Th best sin single single gle g le days catch was fish fis h weighing w pounds The mode of or fishing off Port Deposit Depos Is 19 trolling The fish congregate in holes and often there are more boats than the water will accommodate Some huge hUle h uge fish have been taken there but it is a place of frequent disappoint disappointment disappointment ment m ent because rain anywhere in the hills h ills often otten discolors the fishing water so 50 that it Js is useless and impossible for formani many mangy days at a time to angle there Therefore T the angler who tries Port rort Deposit D should be prepared for fora a so sojourn sojourn journ of at least feast a week yeek to make sure of sport Trolling for tor the big striped bass Is practically p the only method used in an another another other ather section where monsters are taken by the few fen te who know how the north northside northside side ide s of Long island sound from Hell HellGate HellGate Gate G ate east The big fish that broke Tim Flynn was hooked booked thus It was wasat wasat wasat at night and the boat Was waa being rowed across cross a the current when hen the ash tish took hold h old His first fi st rush was was as so tierce fierce that before b he could be checked checke l he ha hat had i fun jun 1 un out almost the fhe entire reel line This gave g ave him an n advantage which Mr lit Ir Flynn lynn F could not overcome with nil all his skill kill s and after being eing played for Cor a lime time the big fish turned and broke the tackle tack He h had appeared d above aboc water ater so 50 of or often orten ten during the fight that the angler and his boatman bottman had an excellent view 11 of him Mm and they agreed that he must be bo a fish that would weigh more than fifty firt fi pounds Two days afterward a auge huge h uge striped bass was taken in n a pound net off of Whitestone Long island clean across cross a the sound The fish had a hook and trice trace in his jaws and as Mr Dir Flynn uses u ses a n peculiar hook it was easy to Identity identify I it t as s his is The bass weighed ve rounds pounds Last year ear the trolling parties along the sound were surprised by the sudden advent adent a of big weakfish ranging in weIght eight from ten to fourteen pounds Apparently been a great In Increase crease rea of or these th se big fish for tor where ten years ears ago ag weakfish weighing more than the fie pounds po poy ds were were uncommon t on enough h to ause comment now catches of these beautiful fish weighing more than ten tea pounds are not at all aU un unusual unusual unusual usual A huge hug fish fis that was taken while trolling along the sound shore score was eras v s hooked by John ohn of 0 New NewYork NewYork NewYork York a few seasons seasons ago It was a striped bass aS and it weighed pounds John McMillan of New York took forty n c striped bass while hile In one oneda day the largest of which weighed eighteen pounds Member or of the famous South Side Sportsmen s club ot Long Island hadan 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