The American Angler's Guide: Or, Complete Fisher's Manual, for the United States ... by John Jay Brown

Author:John Jay Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Published: 1857-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

"The Striped BsBie ii one of the Gnest fiehof oar water*. By sportsmen it ia considered a game Gsh of the salt water tribe, affording capita] amusement to the angler, by his great •length and actJTity. There are many places in the vicmity of New-York city, where these Gsh are frequently found in great plenty. They commence taking the hook geneially in April. The Grst Gshing ground in the neighborhood, in the ipring, is in the creeks at Kingsbridge—next at Macomb'a Dani, Newtown creek, and Jersey flats. At this early sea son, shrimp is far the best bait, especially where the water is salt, though in the Passaic, at Belleville, anglers are very BucoeMful in the use of shad-roe as a bait. This bait is rather difficult to manage by a novice. The eiporienced angler makes use of low, or wool, cutting his bait with as much of the skin as passible, and winding a few atTBlids of the tow or wool around it on the hook, Which prevents the curreut from washiug it off, which it would sooo da witbou* this pre oantioD On the rae& of the Fassaic and Hackeosauk rivers, many of these noble Gsh are taken early in April. The shad-roe has been tried repeatedly at Macomb's Dam and in New-tn-an, —^^v ^ifii™,! Bncccss T the reason is obvious to the :iiD up the fresh water streams to spawn, !a to spavm at either of the places just liave never bad much success with this

b^ Mccepting in fresh water atreaniB. The dirinip te a mnch pleaoauter and cleaner bait, and is verj generally found to be aueceuful in the early ipring Gdiing, aud contiane* lo until crabs commeDce aheddiog their coats freely. la the latter part of June, the bass piefer the soft or abedder crab, though the ahrimp continaea lo be used irilh ancceu, tmlil Dear the £rat of AnglUt, when the crab ia decidedly the beat ot all baila that ctu be oaed. The mode of angling conie-ijDeatlj lariea at thia time. While luiog the ahrimp, the an ^er ia generally moat ancceecAd, by naing tbe floiit, and ina-pendiDg hia hook from mid-water to wilbki a foot of the bot< torn, eicepttng where the water ia qaite ahallow, when it ahoold hang josl ao aa to dear the bottom, aa in water cf little depth the fiah look for their prey near the bottom. Bnt when crab bait ia used, the beat mode of Gabiag ia for tho bait to lie on the bottom; a atidinj; sinker ia then the beat, alwaya aa hghl aa the £ah are generally takt out a float; and the n vioQs, if we wiU look with ahrimp, the bait becaoae the ahrimp, qneulty awepc from tl by eela, or other eiien ingly; when feeding along the bottom to fij leas atate, and awim ' bead downward, exa teaches them to find I by a float at midwati don, and the angler momn over hia want count for it.

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