FISH AND FISHING. 



ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 



The following will be found accurate and 

 valuable for the vicinity of New York 

 City: 



Kingfish — Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting, 

 June to September. Haunts: The surf 

 and deep channels of strong tide streams. 

 Baits: Blood worms, shedder crabs and 

 beach crustaceans. Time and tide: Flood, 

 early morning. 



Plaice — Fluke, Turbot, Flounder. May 

 15th to November 30th. Haunts: The 

 surf, mouths of tidal streams. Baits: Shed- 

 der crabs, killi-fish, sand laut. Time and 

 tide: Ebb, daytime exclusively. 



Spanish Mackerel. Haunts: The open 

 sea, July to September. Baits: Menhaden, 

 trolling — metal and cedar squids. 



Striped Bass — Rock Fish, Green Head, 

 April to November. Haunts: The surf, 

 bays, estuaries and tidal streams. Baits: 

 Blood worms, shedder crabs, calico crabs, 

 small eels, menhaden. Time and tide: 

 Night, half-flood to flood, to half ebb. 



The Drums, Red and Black. June to 

 November. Haunts: The surf and mouths 

 of large bays. Bait: Skinner clam. Time 

 and tide: Day, flood. 



Blackfish — Tautog, . April to November. 

 Haunts: Surf, vicinity of piling and old 

 wrecks in bays. Baits: Sand worm, blood 

 worm, shedder crabs, clams. Time and 

 tide: Daytime, flood. 



Lafayette — Spot, Goody, Cape May 

 Goody. August to October. Haunts: 

 Channels of tidal streams. Baits: Shedder 

 crabs, sand worms, clams. Time and tide: 

 Day and night, flood. 



Croaker. «July to October. Haunts: 

 Deep channels of bays. Baits: Shedder 

 crabs, mussels. Time and tide: Day, flood. 



Snapper — Young of Blue Fish. August 

 to November. Haunts: Rivers and all 

 tideways. Baits: Spearing and menhaden; 

 trolling, pearl squid. Time and tide: Day, 

 all tides. 



Sheepshead. June to October. Haunts: 

 Surf and bays, vicinity of old wrecks. 

 Baits: Clams, mussels, shedder crabs. 

 Time and tide: Day, flood only. 



New England Whiting— Winter Weak- 

 fish, Frost-fish. November to May. 

 Haunts: The surf. Baits: Sand laut, 

 spearing. Time and tide: Night, flood. 



Hake— Ling. October to June. Haunts: 

 Open sea surf, large bays. Baits: Clams, 

 mussels, fish. Time and tide: Day and 

 nieht, flood. 



Weak-fish — Squeteague, Squit. June to 

 October. Haunts: Surf, all tideways. 

 Baits: Shedder crabs, surf mullet, men- 

 haden, ledge mussels, sand laut, shrimp. 



Time and tide: Day and night, flood pre- 

 ferred. 



Blue Fish — Horse Mackerel. June to 

 November 1st. Haunts: Surf, open sea 

 and large bays. Baits: Menhaden, surf 

 mullet and trolling squid. Time and tide: 

 Daytime, not affected by tides. 



A MAINE BUTCHER. 



A back number fisherman, one Charles 

 Horbury, of Lewiston, Me., writes a long 

 story to the journal of that city about 

 black bass fishing, and tells how he makes 

 a hog of himself every chance he gets. He 

 has made so formidable a record as a de- 

 stroyer of the fishes that he has induced 

 the editor to print his picture, and this 

 shows he wears his bristles on the out- 

 side — of his face. 



The editor also prints 2 pictures of 

 strings of fish taken by butcher Horbury. 

 One of these cuts represents a string of 

 bass and perch said to have been taken in 

 2 hours, and which, as nearly as I can esti- 

 mate, numbers 60 to 70 black bass and 

 perch. The other shows 114 black bass 

 strung up against the side of a house. 

 Those, butcher Horbury says, he and a 

 friend caught in one day. 



Here is what one of Horbury' s neigh- 

 bors says of him, in a letter to me dated 

 April 9th: 



"I enclose clipping from a local paper 

 showing an article which so disgusted me 

 that I take the liberty of sending it to you. 



1 am ashamed to say that here in Maine 

 we have a man who calls himself a sports- 

 man, has his picture published as such, 

 and who boasts that he caught 114 

 fish in one forenoon. No wonder he wants 

 the 25 pound law repealed. He says let a 

 man catch all he can ! How long would 

 we have any fish to catch if all were like 

 him? Up here in Oxford county, in our 

 Richardson lakes, where 3 friends and I 

 have a cottage, I have seen the time when 



2 of us could catch all the law would allow 

 (25 pounds) in half a day; but if we were 

 allowed to catch all we could, how long 

 would we have a chance to get even 

 enough for a mess? We never bring out 

 from our cottage more than 4 or 5 small 

 fish, or 1 to 2 good ones. A few years ago 

 my wife and I brought out 25 pounds 

 each, and I never did anything in my life 

 that I was so ashamed of. Now, we only 

 catch what we want to eat !' 



There is a large moose within 18 miles of 

 here that got stuck in the deep snow. The 

 commissioners have had him fenced in 

 and have men feeding and taking care of 



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