FOREST AND STREAM 
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The How To, When To and Where To For 
Striped Bass Fishing 
Being a Few Practical Hints 
By W. G. B. 
ing is popular, the reason is this; the short dis¬ 
tance shooting does not take so much space, but 
they can play any time, day and night, even rainy 
time. You might say the short distance shoot¬ 
ing is indoor game and long distance outdoor. 
You can find many short distance shooting range 
places on the business streets even in downtown. 
Generally such archery houses charge so much 
money for so many shootings. They furnish 
everything you need for shooting. 
The archery ground is limited by high fences 
in both sides and put small sand hill to stop the 
arrows against the players. 
The shooting place is like ordinary porch of a 
house, with high ceiling. The targets for short 
distance are various. The large one is about 
twelve inches in diameter, and the smallest is 
half an inch, gold target. The counting of the 
score is exactly the same way in the long dis¬ 
tance and makes no difference whether we hit 
the middle of the target or near the edge. 
Training: 
Archery in Japan is very popular. It is played 
not only by the old folks, like in this country, 
but by young people as well. As in every- out¬ 
door game, the earlier start is the better- It is 
not uncommon to see the good players in high 
schools over there, as you have many good ten¬ 
nis players in the same grade schools in this 
country. 
If you start the shooting in school, generally 
there is a coach who teaches the fundamental 
points of shooting. For example, how to hold 
the bow and arrows, how to set feet, how to hold 
body, how to draw bow, etc. For the first two 
or three months the coach, if he is a good coach, 
will not let the students shoot at the targets, but 
against the straw stop; a straw bundle to stop 
arrows, which is placed about ten feet in front 
of them. The coach puts the students in regular 
form, and after that they can shoot against the 
targets. Even expert archerists shoot ten or 
twenty times against the straw stop, before they 
start the regular shooting. That’s the only way 
to keep the correct style of shooting. 
Almost all universities and colleges have 
archery team and competing each other. Gen¬ 
erally a team consists of ten players and every 
player shoots twenty times for one foot diameter 
target. The game is decided the total points of 
a team. The average points of each player runs 
some like 13 to 16 points, on short distance range. 
The average points of a good player is as high 
as 18, 19 and sometimes 20. 
We have the National Archery Association, 
and its president and other officers are all high 
ranked people. Every year, in summer, the Na¬ 
tional Archery Tournament is held in Kyoto. 
Social Standard of Archery. 
Archery is rather aristocratic game, though it 
is played by most all kinds of people, some like 
horse riding or polo game in this country. The 
purpose of archery is not mainly to build our 
body stronger, but to train our mental activities, 
coolness, gentleness, politeness, etc. Archery is 
not so active game as base-ball and tennis, but 
very good exercise to develop every part of 
muscles, especially chest, by using Japanese bow 
and arrows. In my poor judgment, Japanese 
archery is superior than American, from the 
standpoint of exercise and culture of the mind. 
The utter disregard offered by alleged authori¬ 
ties, that is those who have written books on 
the subject of fishing, shown thus far brings 
forth this article on the fishing for striped bass. 
First of all the book writer, from Rhead on, dis¬ 
regards the fact that aside from bait a lure is 
necessary. By a lure I mean the artificial bait. 
Suppose we start with the place near New York, 
that is for trolling, eliminating surf casting. Any¬ 
where on the Long Island coast, from Cow Bay 
to Cold Spring Harbor is feeding ground for 
striped bass. Start with Cow Bay, taking the 
South shore along Great Neck as a base- Here 
we have fine rock bottoms, sedge shoals, in other 
words, ideal bass ground. Tackle, so much disre- 
Bob Corson and His Day’s Work. 
garded by the penny a word book man, needs ini¬ 
tial consideration. The first thing to do is to over¬ 
look fancy tackle, as offered in the book. Do not 
try pearl squids, Wilson Spinners and things of 
that sort. Get an ordinary spinner, any dealer 
has it, a 4-0 hook, Rhead says a 2-0 for small 
bass, but this should be passed by, as we all 
go out for big ones and the Lord is the only 
one in a position to tell what size is running 
while we are trolling. For real fun the salt 
water rod does not give the fish a chance, use 
a bamboo casting or a steel fly rod, a Frazer 
tapered silk or braided linen line, a multiple 
reel and your own common sense. Start rowing 
slowly, that is about ten strokes a minute, 
steadily pulling, without jerks. Keep the boat 
within fifty feet of the shore, neglecting no 
rocky point nor sedgy inlet. The striper is a 
shore feeder and a most voracious eater. When 
he is hooked, and he always will take care of 
this little item for himself, all you need do is 
keep a taut line while your oarsman pulls out 
into deep water to prevent Mr. Striper sneaking 
back to the sedge or ducking under a rock, as 
he will do if given a few feet of slack. Neither 
a net nor a gaff is needed for a striper for the 
reason that when he reaches the boat he has 
fought his battle and is ready for the cradle. He 
does his fighting before he reaches the boat; he 
then is all yours. First of all be sure your sand 
worms are alive, dead ones will do very little 
damage; hook the worm well up on the hook, 
putting the point through his head and pulling 
over the shank. A good idea is to put a trout 
hook at the top of the shank to keep the head 
of the worm from slipping down or being pulled 
off by snappers and other surface fish, frequent¬ 
ing swivel above it. There are times when bass 
hang over the end of the hook. The bass will 
strike hard and when he hits generally he- stays 
on the hook. Get out a hundred feet of line and 
keep it always free from grass and flotsam as 
these foreign substances will interfere in the 
reeling of the line, which with a four pound 
striper hooked is a most important and inter¬ 
esting matter. 
During the mid-day sun, unless it be at the flood 
tide, you may as well devote your time to snap¬ 
per fishing as the wily striper is out in deep 
water where he will not take attached bait. How¬ 
ever, regardless of the many published state¬ 
ments to the contrary, at mid-day or any other 
time, so long as tide is high or within three 
hours of flood the bass is ready to feed and will 
take your lure with alacrity. Nevertheless early 
morning and just before dark are the most kill¬ 
ing times for bass, provided the tide is more than 
half on the flood or not over half ebbed. To 
slip back to our mutton, or in other words to 
take up again the matter of the hook, spinner 
and other end matters, it is worth while noting 
that the hook should be located not more than 
five inches below the spinner with a free revolv¬ 
ing swivel above it. There are times when bass 
will not take the surface bait, then they are 
bottom feeding. At this time have your rower 
pull slower allowing the spinner to drag just 
above bottom. 
It is worth while bearing in mind, that a 
striper like the black bass has his days when no 
lure nor bait is sufficiently seductive to bring 
him from his place of seclusion—when he refuses 
repeated efforts to coax him, pull over to the 
nearest rock, put on your spreader, snapper hooks 
and sand worm and take home a mess of the 
best little pan fish existant—the snapper or young 
blue fish. - 
SALMON FISHING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 
By W. J. Carroll. 
St. John’s, Newfoundland, July 27. 
During the last three weeks scores of American 
anglers have settled on the various salmon 
streams. Every trip of both the Bruce and Lin- 
trose brings additional sportsmen. The reports 
from the various streams are most encouraging; 
