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MANY NEW JERSEY WEAKFISH I Lower Delaware Say Anglers in Clover with Fierce Striking Yellow Fins PHILADELPHIA Pa July 25 Weakfish are biting nnd now is the time to seek the tackle smashing fish In addition to weakfish Fortesque in the lower Delaware Bay is the home of blues croakers flounders kingfish striped bass and drum with the cussed toad fish and his ilk thrown in but oh the glorious weaks and aristocratic kings Happy fisherman for at JPortesque you always get fish and usually in abundance abundanceWith With a great deal of pleasant recollection I recall a morning just at the peep of day Four of us put out from Fortesque for Ship John Light We made several stops on the way to try the spots Just to know what was doing It was now getting close to high water our luck had not been overly brisk but the time had arrived for action and as the tide had now slackened considerably 1 suggested to the captain not to throw the anchor but to let her drift driftThe The water by this time was as smooth as a mill pond with hardly a breeze blowing blowingThe The engine had barely stopped her chugchug before I had a gorgeous strike and I landed au eightpound weak weakWe We realii d at once that we were in for it and frorn thtt moment the tide was ripe for good busi ¬ ness and the uncanny way our leads seemed to creep along that smooth bottom as the boat slowly drifted seemed to token that the big weaks knew we were putting one over on them and they started in on a battle royal royalThey They came so big and fast that pur eyes fairly bulged from the tension of the great sport sportMy My rod and tackle was of the best good strong shanked hooks they struck with a vengeance and to see tliose yellow finned beauties coming toward us through the sunlit green water and then strike off out of sight taxing your tackle and ingenuity to the utmost repeating it three or four times be ¬ fore you dared to think of landing him believe me every fish was a mans job that day dayThe The sport ran that way for over an hour and when the biting slackened every man of us with sore hands and lame arms was glad to settle back in the boat for a rest fOr there lay before us the finest catch of weakfish I had ever set eyes upon uponIf If you ever hook a ninepound weakfish and he asks for more line dont deny him the privilege but let him have it and the moment he cases off make ydur reel eat up every inch of slack line never giving him a chance to think you have gone to sleep If you give him line faster than he can con ¬ sume it you mfty have the pleasure of reeling up to an empty hook for the weakfish is endowed with a faculty for spitting out a hook tiniiss Of Course he is Booked for keens J A MaeeJary in New York Sun
