Of Interest to Surf 
Fisherman 
A LOT of mighty illuminating dope 
comes out of a study of the Asbury 
Park Fishing Club records of the past 
bass season. 
In the first place, the season divides 
into two sections, one in June and July, 
when 111 fish averaged 7.8 pounds in 
weivht, and another in Cctober and 
November, when 43 fish averaged 13.5 
pounds. No fish under 3 pounds took 
the hook in the surf. The largest 
was a late June fish of 30 pounds. 
which from all indications would have 
weighed 45 pounds or more by the close 
of the feeding season late in November. 
No fish were weighed in between 
August 4 and September 29. 
Where they were during that inter 
val is a fine husky question. 
At first blush it was rather difficult 
to believe the difference between the 
two averages represented the growth 
between June and November, but fur- 
ther study in connection with the scales 
of the early and late individuals point- 
ed most clearly to its being only part 
of the truth in the case of the females 
at least. 
The seales of three or four fish in the 
7-pound class indicate them to have 
been of the following lengths at the 
close of their successive feeding sea- 
sons: 1916, 5% inch; 1917, 8% inch; 
1918, 10% inch; 1919, 138% inch; 1920, 
16% inch; 1921, 21% inch; and in late 
June, 1922, 21% inch. 
Plotted on a chart with approximate 
relation to the summer feeding con- 
ditions and the winter hesitation in 
growth, the curve is a series of annual 
cycles of rapid growth from late May 
to late November, followed by slow 
growth from about December Ist to 
May ist, when the spawning season is 
due. 
In a plotted curve of weights the 
annual cycles are most amazing when 
first viewed, as their rises and dips de- 
velop. Most of us would choke at the 
statement that a 12-pound fish would 
weigh but 9 pounds four or five months 
later in life, and in six months more 
be up to 19 or 20 pounds. 
not so improbable when we remember 
that a 12-pound female will extrude a 
pound to a pound and a half of spawn, 
and, through exhaustion and emacia- 
tion, lose an equal weight in the strain 
of the operation. 
As this function is timed to occur at 
the beginning of the season when food 
is plenty, Mrs. Striper is ready to sit 
down at a well-spread dinner-table and 
stock up with the weight and energy 
for the next bout. She appears to gain 
weight at the rate of about a pound 
or more a month until cold water rolls 
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