Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-22

Anglers have no reason to complain or
the scarcity of fish this fall, reports
from every direction indicating that the
sport is better than ii has been in many
years. Last year was regarded as a
banner season, but this falls fishing
shows a still further Improvement in the
sport.
Reports from all along the upper Po-
tomac have it that big bass are plentiful.
anglers thinking nothing Of landing fish
weighing two, three and four pounds.
while the smaller ones are almost as
plentiful as other varieties of small fish.
Rockfish are plentiful about the vicin-
ity of the city, anglers having to go
no farther away than the deep water of
Analostan Island to get good strings OF
them I.arge-mouth bass are plentiful in
the basin.
Below the city anglers are making good
catches of rockfish in the creeks, and
sood-size yellow perch are also being
caught Farther down the river salt
water fishing is good.
Patuxent river fishermen are also hav-
ing good sport Members Of the several
clubs near Mount Calvert are catching
yellow perch and catfish. and some of
them are shooting few birds and ducks
as a side issue.
Col" John w. Hurley made good his
claim that he would get some of the
horses from the river.
Il knew they were there" he said,
when he returned from his latest trip
to Harpers Ferry and Weverton; land
got EN-
The colonel went it alone upon the
occasion of his latest venture, spending
Saturday in the vicinity of Harpers
Ferry and leaving there in time to get
outside the limits covered by the Sunday
law before he wet his line.
Eight Small-mouth bass were taken
from the water Saturday, two of them
tipping the scales at four and one-half
pounds and one at four pounds. The
others were not SO large. Saturday night
he drifted down to Weverton and Knox
vile.
Soon after he cast his line overheard
there a three-pounder took hold and
gave him lively fight in which he was
successful. During the remainder Of the
day he was unable to land anything
weighing more than two and One-ha1f
pounds. while most of the others weighed
between one and two pounds.
THE fish would take nothing but mad
toms,' said Hurley, land the manner in
which they took them showed they were
hungry. While the water is very low. it
is cooler than it was short time ago.
1t is because of the lower temperature
that the big fish are biting"
George II. Cooke and Luke ]. Kearney
think there is no place like Catoctin for
bass fishing.
and if you had seen their string Of
wouldn't blame them for thinking So
The car was hardly long enough to give
them room to spread out the fish.
They caught exactly three dozen during
their stay of two days on the water
about Catoctin. None of the three dozen
ipbn aS
they averaged up well.
- Last week the two anglers had another
trial. and kearney was declared a rank
outsider, SO far as the big fish were con-
cerned. George Cooke landed one fish
that weighed four and one-half pounds,
about the size of the biggest one Col
Hurley caught that day, and he also
caught one that weighed three and one
half pounds.
Luke Kearney was in the twO-pound
class. He did his share of catching in
that class and he was as proud of what
Cooke had done as if he had done it
himself.
Thomas when told OF the successful eff
forts of anglers in the vicinity Of Ana
lostan Island The reports he heard had
il that many large rockfish were being
caught in the deep water about the is
land, and he just thought he was fisher
man enough to catch them IL others
could.
Without telling even his best friends
of what he was going to do the sporty
angler made his way to where the big
ones were biting, having made prepare
tons for q fresh-fish dinner at home that
night. Getting his bait and boat, he was
soon out on the deep
The tackle that a colored angler nearby
was using was Of the variety that is SO
frequently seen i'm the hands of persons
living about the water. He was pulling
in fish with his tackle. however, and the
angler from the city felt sure he would
do as WELL
Come over some other day." said the
colored man to the city angler after the
latter had pulled up stakes and started
away empty-handed. and Ah'Il show
you how to catch en-
The colored man had a score Of fish on
his string.
William A. Hettingcr. accompanied by
Lloyd Brooke and George Lewis, expects