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the side of a clean glass vessel with a straight side. I was in- 

 formed in fact that the data were obtained and published 

 largely, or perhaps solely for the benefit of anglers — to let 

 them plan fishing trips to the best advantage with reference 

 to catch and the saving of time. 



River accommodations. — It should be said that on all the 

 streams mentioned except the one in Maryland it would be 

 necessary to provide a tent and commissary outfit in order 

 to get and remain in touch with rivermen from whom much 

 certainly would have to be learned in new territory, there 

 being practically no accommodations near enough the fishing 

 grounds to be made available. All of the localities named 

 are mosquito ridden and I would not for a moment consider 

 going into camp in such places without advance preparation 

 in the way of large nets containing 20 square yards of cheese 

 cloth each. 



DISCUSSION 



Mr. D. B. Fearing, Newport, R. I. : T am very much interested in 

 Mr. Worth's paper. Some 45 years ago, when I was seven years old, 

 1 lost my first striped bass, and I have fished tor striped bass in manj 

 places since that time. 



I was very much interested in what Mr. Gorham said about fishing 

 in brackish water. I remember when a small boy going to a certain 

 river in Rhode Island and seeing my father catch a striped bass with 

 a fly, and I have records of the capture of striped bass in Great South 

 Bay, Long Island, with the yellow sally and red ipis and the white 

 miller; but the fishing in brackish water as an angler's pastime has all 

 been transferred to the Pacific Coast. On the Atlantic Coast and in 

 the east where I come from, I can remember as a boy at the West 

 Island Club when it was a common thing for an angler to land 60 to 70 

 striped bass with rod and line in a day's fishing, fish that would run 

 anywhere from 6 to 64 pounds ; and as late as 20 years ago I saw 20 to 

 30 fish landed in one catch. At the present time you could fish from 

 daylight till dark and never, get a striped bass. There are gill nets 

 that stretch from one to three miles in length straight out. and where 

 there are no gill nets there are purse seines and pound nets. The 

 striped bass in cruising around will strike one of the gill nets, but they 

 will not go into them, turning instead and going straight out to sea. 

 There is no angling for striped bass except after a storm which carries 

 away the nets, and then good big striped bass are caught. But the 

 old days when you could catch them with rod and reel are gone. 



