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Show one line, now another, until fingers, protected pro-tected as they are by mitts, are sore and arms ache. A morning's sport will often yield enough fish for a large hotel. Another method frequently practiced here is known to fishermen as chumming. chum-ming. Several hundred menhaden, or "bunkers," are secured, a portion of which are ground or chopped up into a land of mush, and liberally scattered over the surface of the water where the boat is anchored. THE OUTFIT. An oily "stick" is thus formed which floats rapidly to leeward, and often attracts at-tracts the bluefish within a radius of a mile. A slice from the menhadens baclr is put on a large hook and the line ia thrown overboard, and as it drifts away the bait is seized by the voracious fish which swarm about the boat. Bluefish tackle is exceedingly cheap. A dollar will purchase all that is necessary neces-sary for hard fishing, while an outlay of $0 or $7 will buy a stout casting rod, a cheap, stout reel and line, and the necessary nec-essary hooks and squids. With this outfit out-fit the most fastidious can fish. Small snappers of two pounds weight are quite abundant at Broad channel and the inlet of Jamaica bay, and also at Sea-vvaron, Sea-vvaron, Prince's bay, the Horse at Sandy Hook and tit Barnegtit. The large fish running from six to fifteen pounds have been found in great quantities all along the Long Island and Jersey coasts. Tho season is usually from the middle of July to the first of October. To be sure of good fishing and big fish one should go aboard one of the stanch little smacks that supply Fulton market with its Friday's bluefish. A little tact and the judicious use of four or five dollars dol-lars will secure a berth. These boats go out to the banks of the Jersey or Long Island shore and sail around until fish are sighted. Then they anchor. Small hand mills are brought on deck and menhaden are ground up. Dories to the number often of a dozen, each carrying car-rying a man and menhaden, mush and bait, put off from the sinacta and anchor within a radius of half a mile. At the end of the day each dory will bring m two or three hundred large fish. As the smacks remain out from a week to ten days, and meat, fish and fresh vegetables comprise the bill of fare, an' enjoyable eea voyage offers its attractions vn i addition addi-tion to the fishing.-New York World. !. PING BLUEFISH" I Along the Jersey Shore and it iGieat South Bay-On Board a a I Fishing Bark. I Ietant question of tackle. phing For Business and Pleasure I Combined Catohing Blues on I Shore, flight breeze ruffles the ocean. The lis send by under full sail, and the ? boats, off on the banks, rise and l ie logs on the long ground swell. I surf breaks on the beach in great I'ers, which throw themselves high I the sand and then rush back to fck with the 'more congenial ele-w ele-w On the bluff at Sea-bright stands In whose eyes, shaded by his hand, lnt fixedly upon a small dark patch I ocean over which are clustered fed sea gulls. Now and then the lh scintillates with silver spots, and fenlls throw themselves from their 1 blight into the silver kaleidoscope, l-ffls to be moving nearer shore. The I ter perceives it to be a school of fib. Soon the school is inside of I'reakers and he runs into a neigh-f-'i bouse. I-' comes out carrying a long fishing I neatly coiled and ending in six is or more of stout wire, to which pfc-d a lead squid. Removing his paul stockings and rolling up his rr3 (tie man, carrying the coil of I0? ais aim, wades into the surf, and pug bold of the line about six feet l-i the squid begins to whirl the piece Pj around his head. It whirls fast-I fast-I fester. After the retreat of a ff he finally runs down almost into l'an bed and lets goof the line, rstrmd flje3 out straight a hundred f "fty feet or more and settles into I Teakers. I Fishing FROM THE SHORE. the fisherman hauls it in hand r hand as rapidly as he can. A blue- Jimps from the water and the line "Ms a marked rigidity. The fisher- Hauls yet faster, and pulls up on the a sis pound beauty. He unhooks S, powerful bodied, blue backed, allied fish very gingm-ly, for he is -m of tae razorlike teeth and doe3 ' to lose a finger. Ho throws the a up on the beach and begins his afresh. In half an hour the blue- which have been in chase of a school aaden, head for tho deeper ocean, ' e Sherman picks up bis catch of Ja or more and walks back to the Snch is bluefishing on the Jersey n'd yon see the sport on Great Z 3?' So to any of the bordering j -t atDd ensa?e fora small stun a sail- ana a captain to take yon out If 1 0 "ot become seasick and there is a ?,breeze you will have grand sport r j04 line can be used, or a rod -1 with a squid. The boat keels . on its side and rushes through v i n exhilarating motion. ; s, long lines troll out from the tOBrt I" BUids 0f 00,16 OT metel 67 1 we water. Now the fish strikes I |