52 Fisoine is Amertcan WATERS. 
lar, giving him the benefit of its spring, for he is bony-mouth- 
ed, though the teeth in his upper jaw are too small and short 
to bite or even chafe off a silk-worm gut snell. Keep your 
fish out of the swiftest of the tide, and, after playing him un- 
til he succumbs from exhaustion, land him on the shore, for 
he is too heavy to lift upon the bridge. Well done! Now 
bait quickly and cast for another. You perceive that at the 
foot of the rapid tide the bass lie in wait for bait, for our 
floats dip at that place. But the fish move away from there 
after the tide gets running its full strength, and an hour is all 
of first-rate fishing we may expect in one tide, therefore it is 
necessary to be active in baiting and expert at casting and 
playing a fish, always using shrimp on the upper hook and 
shedder on the lower one, when you use tio baits at a time 
in this style of fishing. Now, as the tide has become too 
swift for float-fishing, just step into this boat, and we will row 
down to the first island in the creck, seventy-five rods beyond 
the west bridge, and try Spuyten Duyvel Creek. The fish 
are smaller here, but they bite more generously. I took 174 
here in one day, and yet Judge Brevoort, my companion, 
beat me by one fish. See! one on each hook at every cast! 
Say you not that angling for small bass with heht tackle 
forms a pleasing excitement? Well, having fished out the 
tide, suppose we return to the hotel and take our vehicle for 
home? This place is accessible by public conveyances over 
several routes, but as it is only eleven miles from the City 
Hall, I prefer to drive out. We have taken between thirty 
and forty bass which scale from half a pound to a pound 
each—only three two-pound fish and one three-pounder ; and 
this may be regarded as an average morning’s sport. 
SECTION THIRD. 
TROLLING IN HELL GATE. 
You doubtless perceived, brother angler, that the sport 
which we yesterday enjoyed at King’s Bridge might be 
practiced and greatly relished by ladies. Many ladies of 
