Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-30

Local anglers who visited points on the
upper Potomac during the past week
found the water to be in fair condition.
and some good strings Of bass were
brought back to Washington.
The water, which had been very muddy
the week before. had cleared, and the re-
ports are that some good sport Will be
had tomorrow and for the next few days.
Capt. Hurley and Howard Brooks took
a trip to Weverton Thursday and landed
a good string. The largest bass they
caught weighed two and half pounds.
Mr.. Brooks declared that unless heavy
rains set in within the next few DAYS
many good catches can be looked for.
The streams emptying into the Potomac
along the lower part, however, are all
very muddy, and it is not thought that
much fishing will be done in the vicinity
of Great Falls tomorrow.
James Gallagher got the prize bass of
the past week when he landed hve-
FOUNDER at Point of Rocks Thursday. Mr..
Gallagher spent two. days on the river
ceeded in landing sixty-seven Of the
sporty fish. All of the large ones caught
were landed with spoon bait
Justice Daniel Thew Wright Of the SUI
preme Court of the District Of Columbia
and Attorney William z. Ambrose re-
turned to the city Thursday night from
"a fishing and cunning trip to Potomac
creek. They brought back with them a
large bag of ducks and ortolan, as well
as a large string OF fish. They went
down the river on Justice Wright's yacht
and thoroughly enjoyed the outing and
sport.
A Baltimorean who enjoys the company
of Washington anglers is A F. Dresei
He came over from the Oriole city last
TUESDAY afternoon, and later went to
Weverton, Md, for two days fishing. He
had good sport with the bass. landing
twelve of them on Wednesday and fifteen
on Thursday. Mr.. Dresel never rails 10
communicate with his Washington friends
during the bass season to arrange trips
to the fishing grounds on the upper Po-
tomac and is weekly visitor to the
places where they are biting
Detective Frank Bauer and Mrs. Bauer
spent Thursday at Dickerson's angling for
bass. They had a successful trip. land
ing sixteen of the f1nny tribe. They av-
eraged from ? to 21s pounds each. Al
though Mr. Bauer has been visiting the
upper Potomac fishing "holes" for a num-
Der Of years. and knows much about the
angling game, Mrs. Bauer gave him some
pointers on how to catch them
Robert Carroll. Al Buechler' and Sam
ueI Rothchild have returned to Washing
ton after spending five days at Ocean
View fishing. The three fishermen mao
good sport in pulling up the fish from the
sea. Sam Rothchild got the prize when
he landed "stinger.
Feeling a hard tugging at his line the
fisherman declared he would get the hon.
or of the trip If he landed whatever was
on his line. He got the honors but not
the fish.
AS he pulled his line into the boat, with
the fish pulling at the other end, he
called for a coiored man to come to MS
aid. AS soon as the fish's snoot came
above the water the colored man SAID,
Get the AK!
child was endeAvoring to land the fish,
The latter. however, proved too strong
and broke the line 1t was stlnger,
and the other fishermen assured Roth
child he could have the honors any Tune
he wanted them II he was going to claim
them by landing 'stinger.
Several catfish were caught in the East
ern branch during the past week. but the
ed In landing anything else or many OF
the catfish.
The water in the branch has also been
SO low that gunners were unable to do
much shooting The large hocks OF orto- |
Ian which landed in the branch last week
are still feeding there, well as thou
sands of blackbirds, but the gunners
could not get their boats far enough up
the branch to get them.
julius Goldenberg. who went to Attain
tic City last Sunday for a try at the deep
sea fishing. has not sent any reports