'Telephone'
Fishing Bane
To Southland
By DION HENDERSON
Associate Press Staff Writer
Fishermen most anywhere can
get a fish on the line with the
blessing of authorities as long
at they don't place " the call on
an old-fashioned telephone.
Telephoning ' fish' is a well-understood
phrase in Dixie, but it's
liable to confuse the Yankee an
gler. Do you maybe stop in at
the drug store phone booth, drop
in your dime and tell the opera
tor, "Let me ipeak to black bass
4 pound 11 ounces?",
No, you don't.
Telephoning fish is a method' of
using old-time magneto telephones
as portable electrical generators
to stun fish wholesale in handy
pools, and it's against the law
just about everywhere. Southern
rulhorilies wish the notable North
ern lack of interest In the system
were nationwide.
Little Sport
But it Isn't. Some Southern
stales find that the number of ar
rests under the terse head "tele
phoning" may make up half their
total fishing violations. There is
practically no sport at all in the
mass electrocution of a washtub
full of catfish, but there appar-
ently is some lure in trying to
outwit the warden.
For Instance, an alert store
keeper in one Southern city where
there was a recent surge of inter
est in the practice made a busj
ness coup by cornering the local
market on aid telephone sets. He
. was doing fine, too, until he ad
vertised them in a newspaper.
The price of such competition
can be high, although it usually
isn't. But a recent Texas case
has become practically a cause
celebre in the. Lone Star state,
first because it started out with
a private cititea's complaint and
second because in the course of
furious developments one of the
transgressors was shot in the back
or thereabouts, by a special dep
uty. But the ordinary penally for be
ing caught in the act in Texas,
Louisiana, Georgia and other re
' gional centers of the "sport" is
; a fine of f 100 or less, and usually
: considerably less. -
Simple Mechanics
The mechanics of telephoning
art simple. The old magneto tele
phones became popular, and lent
I heir name to the operation, be
cause Ihey are readily portable.
The idea is to set up an electrical
field between two electrodes
placed in the water. The elec
trodes lengths of chain, usually
render, fish between them
numb.- It may kill, but usually
' not.
This, obviously, payi off to ne
farious operators only when fish
can be found congregating as
over the spawning beds in spring,
or in deep pools during hot weath
er, or when schooled up in lakes
The method is not adaptable to
all waters, by a long shot, which
is probably just as well for har
ried wardens.
State-smart, Salom, OrpSun July 29, '56 (Spc. III)-21
"A COMFORTABU OLD
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YOUTH"
(Author's name below)
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youth of today will have a
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Your children will live longer
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We carry hundreds of dif
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WHEN YOU NEED
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