TROLLING IN BARNEGAT BAY. 



In the lower end of Barnegat Bay, south 

 of the inlet, there are numbers of pound 

 and gill seines set, and quantities of fine 

 fish are caught in them ; but that mode of 

 fishing is not permitted above the inlet. 

 Except in the two channels, where the 

 water varies from 9 to 14 feet in depth, 

 the bay generally is shallow, say from 18 

 inches to 7 feet at high water, and at low 

 water wide expanses of sedge and eel-grass 

 are exposed. From the ist of July until 

 well on in September each incoming tide 

 brings from the ocean great schools of 

 Weak-fish, big, yellow-finned, " tide-run- 

 ners." They dart over the flats where the 

 water is only three or four feet deep and 

 scour the sloughs and along the edges of 

 the channels, snapping up shrimp, small 

 fishes, soft crabs, and any other edibles 



