Evening star., 1897-03-31
Anglers NOW Alert
Favorite Resorts for Votaries Of Rod
and Reel.
WHERE TIE BLACK BASS APPEAR
Proposed Laws for the Protection
of Game and Fish.
FULL TEXT OF THE BILLS

Probabl, no sport or recreation in the
world gives its votary more real and last
ing pleasure than angling There is de-
tghtful thrill in recalling the moment when
you lodged under the feecy smoke and
saw your first buck going down convulsive-
ly on his knees a hundred and fifty yards
away; there is something akin to ecstasy in
going through again that never-to-be-for-
gotten July day in the shady wood-bottom
when stanch and sturdy Don came proud
ly out of the dogwood and alder with that
woodcock In his mouth and dropped to
point on the edge of the bushes where the
dead birds mate was crouching. and you
got him, too. But when the sportsman
who knows such experiences as these com
pares them with the rapt and indescribaDle
half hour he has spent with a glorious two
pcunder bass plung1ng and racing, wrtthing
and rushing through the seethfng water or
a rock broken rapid, feeling every spasm of
the fighting fish through the trembling
linen that conveys the most exhilaratfng
electrical telegraphy on earth, he looks up
at his rod and forgets he has such thing
as a gun In the house. There viii be ahun-
dant opportunity for him to renew that
rapture in the next few days II the weather
remains clear, because the bass in the Po-
tcmac is beginning to feel the vigor of
spring in his bones and he will be eager to
attack either the minnow or the fly if they
peighborhood.
Anglers know this, however, without the
necessity of their being told. The poet once
said: I'm the spring young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love-" He
wouldn't have missed the truth by a hair if
he had written: In the spring an anglers
fancy gladly turns to thoughts Of fish,
There are as many different kind Of an
glers, too, as there different knds OF
fish. The real expert seeks only the game
fish. like the trout and the small-mouth
bass, and prefers the fly as the means to
lure them into a scrimmage, but there are
just as warmly enthusiastic anglers who
devote themselves to rock tish, white perch
or any old thing that has fins and a tail,
and they enjoy themselves as much with
bob and worms as the expert does with his
more intricate and costly parapherralia
The Potomac holds in it's silvely embrace
sport for all the yotaries of the healthful
ard exhilarating pastime, and the perch
seekers are already out in the vicinity Of
Little river, back of Analostan Island is a
splendid perch ground, but there are still
nner f1sh to be caught there now. These
are the large-mouth black bass and the
crappie. The crappie rises to the fy and
Is as game as brook trout The Little
river Is plentifully stocked with this fine
nsh, and should be visited by those in
search of fine sport and plenty Of It.
Good white perch fishing may be found
all the way up the river from Three Sis
ters to Chain bridge and beyond Around
the site of the old Ead's mill there are
usually good strings awaiting a fisherman.
ard Of Table Rock the perch bite freely.
The bass-the small-mouth bassA should
be sought above Little Falls or better
sun, above Great Falls. Spring fishing is
usually very good at old George PENNY
neids and at Seneca. Above Sharp Shin
Island at Seneca there is usually excellent
cass hshlng In early April. Bass fishermen
viii have to get in their work early if they
want spring sport howe yer as the law
VIII prevent the taking of bass from April
10 to June 1, and the river will be closely
"atched 10 prevent violations of the sta
tute; Parties are already visiting the clubs
ur river, and the members of the Sycamore
Island, the Blue Ridge and the Woodmont
ciuos, and the Anglers Association are
laying the foundations for fish stories to
pass the ume with during the approaching
cicse season, and spread over The summer
well. e-
prospective bass seekers vii! do we'll to
remember that the smaii-mouth will he
iounu lnshore during the carly spring. and
| IN narrow shadows where there is moi
| much current. 1t is WELL too. to use live
| Dalt While the water remains chilled as
| pass can seldom be deludei by an artificial
| ny y Wheh the weather Is not warm enough h
| 1of real Water-skimmers to be around and
| about. "''o
| PROTECTION OF FISH AND CAME.
| Iext OF the Bills Introduced in the
Senate Yesterday.
| AS stated in yesterdays Star two hills
! OF considerable interest to the sportsmen of
| the District were introduced in the Senate
yesterday by Mr.. Proctor One was for the
| protection of fish and the other for the
protection of game. The full text of the
| bill Is follows
| The Preservation of Game.
Following Is the text CT the bill for the
preservation of game:
| Be II enacted by the Senate and House
! of Representatives of the United States
| of America, in Congress assembled:
| That no person shall kill, expose for sale
| or have in his or her possession, eth er
dead or alive, any partridge. otherwise
| quail, between the first day of February
and the first day of November; nor kill,
expose for sale or have in his or her pos
session, either dead or alive, any wood
| cock between the first day of January and
fifteenth day Of July; nor kill. expose for
sale or have in his or her possession, either
| dead or alive, any prairie chicken other
| wise pinnated grouse, between the first
| day of February and first day of Septem-
| Der; nor KILL expose for sale or have in
his or her possession, either dead or alive,
| any rabbit, between the first day of Feb
l rrary and the first day of November; nor
| Kill, expose for sale or have in his or her
| possession, either dead or alive, any snipe
| Ut power between the frSt day OF Nav
and the first day of September; nor kill.
| or expose for sale or have in his or her
possession, either dead or alive, any wild
| duck, wild goose or wild brandt between
| the first day of April and the first day of
| September; nor kill, expose for sale or
have In his or her possession, either dead
| or alive, any water rail, or ortalon, or reed
bird. or rice bird, between the first day of
February and the first day of September
under penalty Of five dollars for each
bird so killed, exposed for sale or in pos
session, and in default thereof to be i'm
prisoned in the workhouse for a period
rot exceeding thirty days.
Section 2 That no person shall expose
Tor sale or have in his or her possession
any deer meat or vtnison between the first
day OF January and the first day of Sep.
tember, Under penalty of ten dollars for
such exposure for sale~Or having in nos
session. and the forfeitufe of all such dee,
meat or vcnison to the SofnFcer making the
arrest. who shall destroy the same. and
In default Of fine to be imprisoned in the
workhouse for a period not exceeding sixty
days. ~
Section g. That no person shall kill n,
expose for sale or have in his or her DOS.
session. dead. at any time, any turkey
buzzard. wren. blue bird. humming bird
blue jay, robin or migratory thrush, wood