TE aAING LANG y Cole 
|The solicit for publication, under this department heading, contributions of interest to angling 
cyclists, particularly outings on the wheel to fishing waters]. 
To the Fishing Grounds at Bound Brook, N. J. 
Referring to the remarks in the May ANGLER, 
regarding fishing on the bicycle, I wish to say 
that the wheel is much used by the Jerseymen 
in their short fishing trips. For the past 
month, on any pleasant day, quite a number 
of bicycle riders could be seen in the neigbor- 
hood of Bound Brook. 
The Raritan river, at this point, is full of 
white perch, and, when they are biting, it is 
great sport. The fish are small, but the num- 
ber is great. Quite alot of small black bass 
have been hooked lately, but they could not be 
kept, even if the law was up, as they were 
nearly all under eight inches in length. 
Only afew days agoa fisherman landed a 
small-mouthed black bass that would probably 
weigh two pounds. He handled him with 
pride, but, with a sorrowful look on his face, 
returned the fish to the water. In speaking 
of it afterward, he said: 
‘‘T wanted to keep the fish awfully, but the 
law was not up until May 30, and there were 
so many fishermen around, you know, just 
watching to see what I did, that I Aad to 
throw him back.”’ 
Just as soon as the bass season opens, many 
a nice mess of black bass will be taken from 
this place. 
This season quite a number of shad have 
been netted a little way below the dam, and I 
have been much surprised that some of the fly 
fishermen have not tried their luck at these 
fish. It is a well-known fact that the shad 
will rise to a white miller or an orange miller, 
and a number have been caught on a yellow 
fly. 
In going out fishing for an hour or two, one 
does not need to carry much tackle. The 
ordinary coat rack in front of the handles of 
the bicycle will carry a small basket with bait, 
reel, etc., while the rod may be either slung 
over the shoulder or laid along the top bar of 
the wheel between the rider’s legs. 
This fishing on a bicycle is certainly a grand 
idea, as any fisherman who owns a wheel can 
occasionally leave business a little early, take 
aspin on his wheel, have an hour or two of 
fishing, and be at home to supper. Many a 
business man, is confined to his office 
nearly all day and feels that his health de- 
who 
mands that he should take excercise on his 
wheel after business hours, can, by this means, 
wet a line many times during the season, 
when he otherwise would not see the way clear 
to do so. 
I call particular attention to the Raritan 
river dam, one mile from Bound Brook and 
five miles from New Brunswick. Fishermen 
who either own or can borrow a wheel, try 
yeur luck. You will have lots of company, as 
the place is becoming quite popular; but don’t 
be afraid of crowding anybody or of being 
crowded yourself. The river is large and it 
can be fished from the shore just as well as it 
can from boats. If you don’t catch bass you 
will catch white or yellow perch, or chub, cat- 
fish, eels, and, once in a while, you may have 
the extreme good luck (?) to catch a noble 
carp. S, Kae 
The Woman and the Bicycle. 
Perhaps the best results of the intensely 
natural and still broadening habits of bicycle 
riding will come to the women of the country. 
It has been a source of gratulation that during 
the past decade the American women has taken 
more to physical exercise than her sisters of 
the past generation, and that a vigorous habit 
of living more outdoors has been developed. 
This latter trait will work good to the sex in 
more ways than the wise individual who in- 
dulges in it isapt toconsider. She is wellaware 
of an increased physical strength that follows 
the daily custom of living, even a few hours, in 
the open air, but she is not apt to go farther 
into the pores of the matter, and consider its 
influence, which will become arbitrary, as her 
experience increases, upon her method of dress- 
ing. It will revolutionize her ideas in this 
respect. 
A woman who habitually rides a wheel soon 
