Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-08

"a seventeen-pound Mississippi catnsf
is some fish to CATCH" remarked Henry A.
Davis Of 42S 10th street southwest to
Star reporter, pointing to such f1sh II
his bathtub. 81 caught 1t Sunday.
The fish was still alive and it was with
some trouble that it was held in position
to be photographed.
Mr. Davis and his brother were fishing
in the river east Of Hightaffer station. on
the Great Falls and Old Dominion rail-
road when the fish took the enticing shad
bait The angler was using bass line
and steel rod and the big fish gave him
all the trouble he wanted in landing 1t.
And never would have landed it," he
said, .if my brother had not been along. y
The fish measured thirty-four inches
from tail to mouth. its tail measuring
ten inches across when spread and it had
mouth big enough to take big fish.
Davis was fishing from the rocks. and 1t
was necessary to get the big catch over
them. His brother went to the water
edge and landed the fish by catching hold
of its gills. Five smaller fish were landed
by the angler without any trouble.
While Henry A. Davis was catching his
seventeen FOUNDER and five other fish, his
brother John F. Davis, was having good
sport only a short distance from him.
He, too. did his angling from the rocks
land the bait he used was similar to that
his brother was using when he caught the
big fish. 1t required no assistance for
him to get his fish ashore, although he
landed two ten-pounders.
John Davis caught eleven fish during
the day, the two ten-pound ones being
the largest. The others ranged from one
to three pounds, and he was well satisfied
with his days catch. The place where
the two men did their fishing is nine
Nd hnrt ana
and one-half miles from the railway sta
ton.
One of the best single-handed catches
of Mississippi catfish recorded this sea-
son was made last Sunday by Elwood
Wine of this city. He fished on the Mary
land side Of the river near Seven Locks.
landing twenty-eight fish.
Wine reached the river fairly early IN
the morning, being plentifully supplied
with bait, and his line soon was over
board. It was but few minutes before
a Juggling at the bait warned him there
was something doing. and soon he had
struggling fish dangling in the air.
Where there's one, there's always an
other" thought the angler, and soon he
had another fish.
Bites came in such rapid succession thar
the angler thought there would be no end
to the good luck The time came, how
ever, when he did not catch them so
fast, but his count showed string or
twenty-eight fish.
And" he said to his friends when he
returned, they weighed 49A pounds"
While anglers are catching big Missis-
sippi catfish along the upper Potomac,
others are getting long strings or white
channel catfish from the Anacostia river
Every day and evening scores OF anglers
are seen on Benning bridge and in boats
about the bridge angling for catfish and
carp, although they occasionally get
white or yellow perch.
H. 8, Duvall, one Of the young dis |
ciples OF Sir Izaak walton, put In
couple of hours on the bridge Tuesday |
afternoon. and returned home with a
string of three dozen catfish and one big |
carp.
II never before saw the catfish so pien-