FISH AND FISHING. 



ALMANAC FOR SALT WATER FISHER- 

 MEN. 



The following will be found accurate and valuable 

 fcr the vicinity of New York City : 



Kingfish— Barb, Sea-Mink, Whiting. June to Sep- 

 tember. Haunts: The :-urf 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 30th. 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. Tune to November. 

 Haunts : 1 he surf and mouths of large bays. Bait : 

 bkinner clam. Time and tide : Day, flood. 



Blackfish — Tautog, April to November. Haunts: 

 Surf, vicinity of piling and old wrecks in bays. 

 Baits : Sand worm, bloodworm, 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 chan- 

 nels of bays. Baits : Shedder crabs, mussels. Time 

 and tide : Day, flood. 



Snapper— Young of Blue Fish. August to Novem- 

 ber. 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 

 b*ys, 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: Surf, all tideways. Baits: shedder crabs, 

 surf mullet, menhaden, 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 : Men- 

 haden, surf mullet and trolling squid. Time and 

 tide ; Daytime not affected by tides. 



ANOTHER FISH HOG SQUEALS. 



Here is a letter which explains itself, 

 and which is printed verbatim, bad spelling 

 and all: 



E. R. Dampier C. L. Ward 



Attorney at Law Real Estate 



DAMPIER & WARD 

 Lands, Loans, Collections and Insurance 



Pelican Rapids, Min«, Aug, 23rd, 1900, 



294 



Mr. G. O. Shields: 



Editor of Recreation. 

 New York, N. Y. 



Dear Sir; — In the month of December 

 1899, your magazine published an artical, 

 together with the pictures of E. R. Dam- 

 pier, Rube, and Herb. Heald and Spencer 

 Folkedahl, all of this county, in which 

 artical you referred to the above men- 

 tioned gentlemen as "SWINE" and a 

 "BUNCH OF HOGS". 



Now after a careful research of the law 

 on the subject of lible, I find that you 

 have, by publishing the above mentioned 

 artical and useing the terms you have 

 used, libeled all of the aforesaid gentlemen 

 — your words have brought them into pub- 

 lic ridicule and contempt, and injured them 

 to the extent of Five Hundred Dollars 

 ($500.00) each. If you have any proposi- 

 tion which may lead to a settlement out of 

 court, we shall be please to hear from 

 you, other wise we will start suit against 

 you through your agents in this state, for 

 the sums above mentioned. 



In order that you may see how the law 

 on this question reads, We cite you a sim- 

 ilar case which was tried in Wisconsin; In 

 this case the defendant called the plaintiff 

 a 'swine' and published his words in a 

 news paper, In this case the court awarded 

 heavy damages to the plaintiff, Minnesota 

 follows Wisconsin decisions on points 

 where the laws of the two states are simi- 

 lar, and our laws on the subject of slander 

 and lible are the same, the case I refer to 

 is 'Solverson vs Peterson, 64 Wis. 168' 

 25 N.W. 16. 



Should we not hear from you by the 

 30th of September we will start suit. 

 Dampier & Ward. 



Attorneys for Plaintiffs. 



After reading this letter and thinking 

 it over a while I called Inkie (my pet 

 squirrel). He hopped up on my desk 

 and looked at me as much as to say, 

 "What is it, old man?" 



I then read him the letter. He looked 

 serious, as he always does when counseling 

 with me on any weighty matter like this, 

 but said nothing. Then I asked him what 

 he thought of it. He looked down his 

 nose and seemed to be in a brown study. 

 I showed him the letter and called his at- 

 tention to the fact that the name at the 

 upper left hand corner, E. R. Dampier, is 

 the same as that of the first man named in 

 the complaint as having been libeled I 

 said : 



"Inkie, have you ever heard of the old 

 maxim that the lawyer who pleads his own 



