Evening star., 1909-08-21

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near Upper Fairmont. the land being
bounded on three sides by water-Ieed
creek, Minikin river and Hall creek. the
river leading into Tangier sound. where
trout and tailors are more tnan pientl-
full.
One night he went with two friends,
Essel Thomas and Charles parks. ana
| enjoyed the unique experience or giiiing
at night. Shortly before dayoreak the
| trio lifted their nets and sailed out to
| Tangier sound. where they useo NOOK
and line, and two hours ishing netted
them seventy trout and forty ta1tors.
John w Hurley did not make sue
cess of his efforts to arrange a hook
contrivance to fool the bass last sun,
| day when he went to Great raiIs. ana
his fishing companion, MOTIFS Sha app.
rio. attributed his failure to tae Iact
that it was too long after April i for
the bass to be fooled.
All day long the two anglers moved
| about on the river. They had several
strikes, but Hurley. with his new ar
rangement was unable to hook p single
fish. while Shappirio landed two pass
and number of smaller fish, the latter
taking crab bait.
One of the bass weighed two and one
half pounds, while the other was much
smaller fish The next time Hurley goes
fishing he will fish in the old-fas shloned
way and will make no effort to deceive
the fish.
Last Sunday Jesse Middleton and
Henry Talbot went to ChappawamSic
their favorite fishing grounds. out
weather conditions and tide were so un-
favorable that they had poor luck
"The tide was fully two feet higher
than I had ever seen it before, SAID
one of the anglers, land there was ram
enough to spoil the days sport. although
we would not have given it up had the
fish taken the spoon"
Only two bass were landed by the two
anglers, but they were not small ones.
and Jesse Middleton caught what he
says was the largest yellow perch ne
has ever seen.
Osker Sherrer has had his family in
camp at Licking Banks several weeks.
When he established camp 1t was with an
idea that he would remain there only a
few days, but camp life agreed with his
family and they had such a good time
that he has. concluded to extend the camp
ing season until the first of the marsh
shooting is enjoyed.
Fishing has been exceptionally eood
along the upper section of. the Eastern
branch. where the camp is located. and
many frogs have been caught by the
campers. Many years ago Licking Banks
was considered a favorite place Tor
anglers and bathers, and many of the
older anglers are wont to recall pleasant
times spent there.
Frank Dudley and George Miller are
still enjoying the sport of catching frogs
along the shores and marshes Of the
Eastern branch. They have been making
two or three trips up the branch each
week and seldom return with less than
three dozen.
Anglers are complaining that dynamite
has recently been used on the upper sec
tion of the Eastern branch. 1t was re-
ported early in the week that two men
were seen to use the explosive from a
boat d number of carp and other fish
being stunned and sent to the surface of
the water. Maj Sylvester will see that
the practice is stopped.
H. NJ Brown and Frank Terrell spent
two profitable days at Betterton last
week. enjoying the salt water fishing and
taking an occasional dip IN the bay.
I'VE caught seven kinds of fish, said
Brown to a friend when he returned from
the trip. land the worst of it was that we
had to eat them"
He enumerated rock, white and yellow
perch, croakers catfish, cells and sun
perch as among the catch, and declares
he was made to eat some of each.
But never again will ] take home what
| CATCH, he remark, unless my luck
runs along in the direction of the best
fish that are to be had"
Last week Capt. Gus Forsberg. aboard
the Cloelia, and Ralph Gait. with his
boat, the Dacota. made a fast trip to
the fishing grounds in Nanjemoy creek
They had bait of all kinds and found II
an easy matter to entice the fish with
it. 1t was merely a matter of batting
their hooks and throwing overheard.
DR.. G. H. White and William p.
Bowie tried their luck in the basin Fri
morning. using spoon with a
gowagic minnow, and they succeeded in
catching fish enough for their dinner
They landed five plymouth bass, the
largest weighing about two and one-half
pounds.
Bobbing for catfish is considered great
sport by some of the anglers, more es-
.pecially those VINO compose camping par
ties. 1t is done by fastening short line
through a cork and tossing it overheard.
after 1t has been put in the mouth of an
empty bottle Such fishing is best where
there is no current and the bobbing of
the bottle informs the fishermen when to
reach, and pull in the fish,
Frank P. Madigan. his sons. Francis,
William and Leo. John Rupert and Mrs.
Rupert entertained number of Balti-
more friends at the Gleebe Club, Patuxent
river. recently. Many enjoyable fishing
trips were made about the river and some
fine perch and rock were caught.
Avalon Catalina. August 81. by wire
less to Los Angeles.-The leaping tuna.
the fish famous for its fighting qualities.
has returned to Catalina after an absence
of five years. The first one one-hun-
dred- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES was taken
by A. c. Brode. after he had fought it
from a launch for two hours and forty
minutes and had been towed more than
twelve miles to sea.