Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-01

caught the greater ~ uSIl
Well settle the question the next time
we fish one of them suggested. Take
separate boats and the fish cannot get
mixed
1t was after L. o'clock when the sports
men left Edes mill well supplied with
soft crabs and bloodworms. They re-
turned before dark. and both had had
| good luck, but the difference in the catch
was SO great that there could be no
question as to the majority scored by
Thompson. He counted out fifty-two fish,
while his companion was able to show
only twenty-three.
But it was a great CATCH" commented
Mack Sparfough
John W. Hurley has been after rock
fish all the week Sunday he caught
eight, and several times since then he has
tried his luck, but without any great de-
gree of success Tuesday a number of
big catches induced the veteran angler
TO try his luck the next day.
THE fishermen had lunches of ten, fif-
teen and as many as twenty Tuesday"
the fisherman was told land the fish
would take nothing but soft crab"
The next day Hurley found rockfish had
different appetite. They preferred
bloodworms to the crab bait. and the
fisherman was unable to even duplicate
his Sunday catch. as he had only crab
bait Tomorrow he will be supplied with
all kinds of bait.
Mack Sparrough and Dr. Randall Par
sons were able to display an attractive
string of rockfish when they left the river
Tuesday afternoon. They fished in the
parlor" and found rockfish about as
plentiful are white perch early in the
season. Bait gave out when the fish were
biting best and it was an unpleasant ex
perience to have to leave at that time
rs 14t, GrL. l-1~
~ pounds.
Having experienced such good luck
Tuesday. Mack Sparroush returned the
following day.
I've got plenty of bait today" he re-
marked, land I'll feed them till dark"
1t happened that the finny epicures
wanted bloodworms that day and Mack
had none to feed to them.
Dick Mullett and Harry Payne were on
the river in the vicinity of the Aqueduct
bridge Sunday. They baited cut smelt
and crab and found the fish took one as
readily as they did the other
But with Dick Mullett." Will Reynolds
said. 1T Is not a question of bait. He
knows how to catch them when they are
about and it's only question of num-
bers."
The two anglers caught twenty Eight
rockfish on the morning outing.
John e. Buckingham. one Of the pioneer
fly and spoon fishermen of the city, who
fished the upper Potomac with President
Cleveland. was unable to get herring
gills. his favorite bait for rockfish. when
he reached the river Tuesday night to
river. and II was because he was without
the gills, he says. that he did not have his
usual good luck.
Buckingham was on the river the great
er part of Wednesday. but he caught only
nine Ash. One of them weighed more
than four pounds. however and the an
gler was we'll satisfied. George Fletcher
who fished with him, snagged a shad that
weighed ~ pounds. The anglers cooked
the fish for dinner.
Gus Perry and Joseph Gross tried their
luck Sunday at the black buoy opposite
.Analostan Island, and when they return
ed to Reynolds boathouse they had a
good count. Nineteen rockfish. some
weighing as much as three pounds, were
on the string.
NJ A. Skinner and William Turner
fished at Middle Rock, not far from the
Three Sisters. and landed between thirty
and forty pounds of fish. One rockfish
they caught weighed seven pounds.
4 =
a. l.. kenna tried his hand at fishing
near E,des mill Tuesday afternoon. He
has done considerable fishing I'm West
Virginia but Tuesday was his first ef-
fort at the place where he succeeded in
landing three rockfish, and the fish were
large enough to make the sport interest
ing.
Jesse Veihmeyer caught twenty-six
rockfish above Little Falls one day this
week None of them was very heavy. but
all were large enough for pan fish.