SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



Winans and his nephew took in three 

 months' fishing from stands built for the 

 purpose on the rocks in front of his house 

 at Newport, Rhode Island, 124 striped bass 

 weighing 2,921 pounds, an average of over 

 twenty-three pounds, the largest being a fish 

 of sixty pounds. I have known my father, 

 the late George Griswold, who was a keen 

 fisherman, to bring home before breakfast, 

 four fish that would weigh over fifty pounds 

 each, but that was in the sixties at New 

 London where no bass are now to be found. 



Last season (1914) I heard of but three 

 large fish taken in the waters off the Eliza- 

 beth Islands. They weighed 51, 52, and 

 63 pounds. The summer before but one 

 large fish was reported. 



The fishing clubs have been abandoned, 

 the stands have been destroyed by the action 

 of the sea, and the waters are no longer 

 chummed or fished, for the large striped 

 bass have become a tradition of the past. 

 This has been caused by excessive net fish- 



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