TRIPED BASS weigh-
ing from two pounds to
half a hundred pounds
are taken by rod and
reel. The heavy speci-
mens are often hooked
by the angler plying his
tackle for the smaller
bass, but they are really
the game of the surfman
— him of the tarpon-like paraphernalia.
These big bass are angled for in the heavy
surf, while the smaller specimens are
taken in calmer waters — the mild surf that
plays over sod banks, and in coves along
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' How pitiful, how trivial
must appear
The scenes they left —
the crowd, the noisy
mart."



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the ocean coasts and in bays and rivers
where rocks abound.
My fish have been those of two and
three pounds in weight. I have caught
these in the Hudson River and from the
sod banks on Staten Island and in the
coves of the Jersey shore.
My best striped-bass fishing was en-
joyed on Barnegat Bay, north of Toms
River, seven or eight miles south of Bay
Head, and the very best results were ob-
tained at Beach Haven, thirty miles from
the head of the bay, and about the islands
of Little Egg Harbor and near the light-
house at Forked River.
I have also enjoyed many a fine day on
the shores of Staten Island at Oakwood.
