Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-19

Well satisfied with their outing at Ca
toctin, Md, a short distance from Har-
pers Ferry. although very willing TO re-
main longer the members of WASH
ington fishing club broke camp late in the
week ard started on the hOmeward trip
down the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
aboard their houseboat. AL Reinburg. L.
w. Harmon, Richard Peed, w. b. Came
ron, Guy Steele and Edward Burrows
comprising the outing party.
Four years ago the club was organized,
and the annual trips to the upper river
have proved enjoy able and beneficial.
Camping along the canal and fishing
the river for bass is an ideal outing, re-
marked one of the members. 1T beats
going away. to the seashore in sweltering
weather.
The six anglers made a record during
their outing, which lasted two weeks.
landing ma,-y big bass and great many
smaller ones. Peed and Reinburs causne
the greatest number OF big fish, some OF
them going over four pounds. while Ed
ward Burrows is credited with the great
est number
One hundred and thirty-nine fish were
caught by the club members. When they
went to Catoctin they pitched a tent for
ing uuarers, the ciubmen sleeping aboard
the boat. Some bad weather and I'M
favorable water made the hshinS SLOW,
but when the conditions improved the
bass bit freely and the sport was great.
And" remarked AL Reinburs, we
experienced the trouble of not knowing
what kind of bait the fish wanted.
"One day the bass would take nothing
but madtoms. he said, while the very
next day it was a case OF 1eealhS theih
in, order get them,
Mountain hikes on the Virginia side OF
the river gave the members exercise
enough when they were not hshing ana
they put in part of their time gathering
chestnuts.
An automobile trip to Rock Point. Nd.
and the landing of string OF more tnan
100 big fish two weeks ago prompted
Nicholas Grove. Ernest Herreii' Danlei
P. Collins Frank Reed and John CroVo
to repeat the outing last Sunday.
But really" said Dan Collins. CONN.,
dentially. when a fellow goes fishing and
has luck it is hard for him to resist go
ing every time he gets good opportu-
nifty.
Two weeks ago the party landed
large number of big trout. but last Sun
day there was a high wind and ram
storm and they We're driven ashore carry
in the day. but not before they had
caught more than 100 white perch and
rOckfish
Ernest Herrell does not hesitate to say
il was one of the best outings OF the
year and he admits he is going BACK
every time he gets chance
Ernest is not much of an eater, one
of his friends remarked. but when he
reached Rock Point he managed to clean
I'D three plates of hog and hominy at
meal.
Capt. Simms did the boating for the.
fishermen and he kept them on the river
until the high water washed the deck OIL
the boat.
Four members of the Happy Six Fish
ing Ciub-Clarence Reizenstein sydney
Kaufman-were in evidence the river
last Sunday, Capt Lee Baumgarten and
Corp. Goodman. the remaining two men,
bers. having remained away.
1.-The event of the day." said Sydney
Kaufman, was the rapidity with which
Clarence Reizenstein caught five black
bass. The fish came SO fast that Reizen-
stein became nervous and excited and
came near getting a wetting.
1t was early in the morning when the
quartet left Trammelfs and started in the
direction of Black ripples.
What do l behold?" was the inquiry
Of Sydney Kaufman that suggested dan
ger ahead.
plorer.'
Tomorrow the strip of land in the river
will be christened Kaufman's Island and
IT will hereafter serve as the resting place
for the club. Ten minutes after the an
glers dropped anchor a short distance off
the island Clarence Reizenstein landed
bass that weighed considerably more
than three pounds. He caught four more
fish and his three companions had
string of four bass at the end Of>the
days outing.
II S. ROhrer and F. w. Matteson had
two-day trip to the vicinity of Norfolk
not long ago, and the luck they expe-
rienced was great enough TO make many
other fisher folk take a back seat. One
day was spent on the salt water a Lynn
haven inlet where more than fifty pounds
of speckled trout fell victims to Their Sc
duct.ve bait.
Pretty good sport" remarked c. S.
Pittman but wait. What they did the
next day was much better"
Having enjoyed the saltwater fishing
at the inlet. the anglers went 10 Lake
Smith. between Norfolk and Cape Henry,
the next day to try fishing in fresh wa
ter. A twelve-pound pickerel. caught by
MIR. Rohrer. and one weighing nine
pounds. caught by his companion, were
the largest of the one hundred and more
pounds of fish landed that day. The
largest plymouth black bass they caught
weighed six and a half pounds.
Thrteens have no terror for John w.
Hurley. lie went To the vicinity OF Har-
pers Ferry the 18th of the month and
caught thirteen small-mouth black bass
and when the thirteens We're mentioned
he made inquiries and learned that he
went to the up-river resort on train thir-
teen and occupied u room of that num-
Der in the hotel.
But it wasn't Friday he remarked.
when his attention was called to the un-
lucky number.
The day before he caught the thirteen
bass he fshed short distance from
Harpers Ferry. but had poor luck. which
caused him to move some distance down
the river
William F. SNYDER came behind Hurley.
fishing the holes the former had aban-
doned. and landed bass weighing five
and three-quarter pounds, one of the
largest fish of it's kind seen this season.
and eleven others that We're big enough