FISH AND FISHING. 



ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 



The following will be found accurate and val- 

 uable 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 15 to 

 November 30. Haunts: The surf, mouth of tidal 

 streams. Baits: Shedder 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 Novem- 

 ber. Haunts: The surf and mouths of large bays. 

 Bait: Skinner crab. 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. 



Croker — July to October. Haunts: Deep chan- 

 nels of bays. Baits: Shedder crabs, mussels. 

 Time and tide: Day, flood. 



Snapper — Young of Blue Fish. _ August to No- 

 vember. Haunts: Rivers and all tide ways. 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 night, flood. 



Weak-fish — Squeteague, Squit. June to October. 

 Haunts: t Surf, all tideways. Baits: Shedder 

 crabs, surf mullet, menhaden, ledge mussels, sand 

 laut, shrimp. Time and tide: Day and night, 

 flood preferred. 



Blue Fish — Horse Hackerel. June to November 

 ist ; Haunts: Surf, open sea and large bays. 

 Baits: Menhaden, surf mullet and trolling squid. 

 Time and tide: Daytime; not affected by tides. 



MISSOURI NEEDS AROUSING. 



I have been reading Recreation 2 years 

 and find you are after the game and fish 

 hogs just right. 



Jasper county, Missouri, is one of the 

 best places on earth for fish, and fish 

 hogs. Center creek, Spring river and Dry 

 Fork are all good for bass, crappies, and 

 other fishes, but there are so many fish 

 hogs that all kinds of fishes are getting 

 scarce; and the laws to protect them are 

 not enforced. Bass are fished for with 

 bait, and when they will not bite, in the 

 winter, the hogs go after them with a gig. 

 If the water is muddy, these swine set 

 traps. In April when bass go on the nest, 



they are shot or seined, and I do not see 

 how any of them are left. There is a law 

 to protect bass, but half the fine goes to 

 the constable, and few of the fellows who 

 do the shooting and seining have money to 

 pay their fines ; so Mr. Constable does not 

 pay any attention to them. Last spring 

 when the constable was told about some 

 men who were seining bass under the dam, 

 and one informant offered to go with him, 

 the constable would not do it because there 

 was no money for the officer in making an 

 arrest. These fish hogs shoot 5 or 6 bass 

 when they are nesting, carry them right 

 through the town, and brag about it, and 

 nobody says a word. It is the same with 

 all other kinds of fishes. I see lots of bass 

 under 6 inches sold in the restaurants here. 



There are some white fellows here, and 

 some niggers, that do nothing but fish. 

 They sell everything they catch. There is 

 a crowd at McDaniel's mill now and they 

 will not leave there until the bass quit 

 biting. There is another crowd at Ous- 

 tott's lake. They use a trammel net. 



There is also a crowd that has been fish- 

 ing at Galesburg all winter, and they bring 

 fish to market every week. They say the 

 bass are biting well, but it has been cold 

 for bass to bite, part of the time, and you 

 can guess how these men got them. 



Two of the worst enemies of fishes are 

 poison and dynamite. A case of poisoning 

 happened at Bower's mill. They must have 

 killed a ton of fishes, for the bodies got to 

 smelling so bad that the people had to haul 

 them away and bury them. 



About a year and a half ago, at Mc- 

 Daniel's mill, I saw a lot of buzzards and 

 smelled a sickening smell; and for about a 

 mile the river was full of dead fishes and 

 turtles. The buzzards were eating them. 

 Somebody had set off dynamite and killed 

 everything. 



Last spring someone put dynamite or 

 poison into the mill race right here in town 

 and killed lots of fishes, but nothing was 

 said about it. 



The dams are all high and there is no 

 place for the fishes to get over, except at 

 the one here, which is low and sloping. The 

 one at the old McDaniel mill has a place 

 fixed for fishes to get over, but it might as 

 well be up the side of the court house for 

 all the good it does the fishes. The water 

 does not run over it more than once a 

 year. I understand that there is no fish- 

 way at Baxter Springs, Waco, Gales- 

 burg, or at Forest mills, and that all the 

 dams are high. I wish some of the fel- 

 lows here would get up a club to protect 

 the fishes ; something like the gun club that 



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