Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
CONDITION OF THE WATER.

DR.. J. -. Harrison. who is so Familiarity
known at Great Falls, where he resides
most OF the year. as Doc" Harrison, be-
lieves that the bass law should be chang
cd so as to prevent the wholesale slaughter
of bass with artificial bait constructed
with several hooks
IF spoon.ng is to be allowed-I mean
spoonins for fish. of course"-said the
well known angler. there should be but
one hook used So many Of the spoons
are constructed with three hooks, and
their use means that 1t is almost impos-
sible to miss fish.
The use of any device which means
the slaughter of fish," the doctor added.
should be prohibited. Indeed. it might
be well to conine bass fishermen to the
use of live or natural bait, but SO long as
the law interposes no objection the
slaughter will continue"
Last Sunday Doc Harrison was on the
river above Great Falls bright and early.
and by 10 o'clock in the morning he had
caught string of two dozen bass. Many
of them were SO small, however, that he
returned them to the river; the larger
ones he sent to his friends, retaining a
tive-pounder in his live-box.
Doc Harrison is regarded as one OF
the most enthusiastic of the hundreds OF
anglers in this section. Not only does
he enjoy the sport of catching the fish.
but he is always seeking some means for
their better protection. This season he is
experimenting with mallard ducks. He
procured ten eggs from the lower river
section and Matched ten ducks. Nine Of
them are living. The mallards are
now about three months old. and their
wings have been SO altered that they are
unable to fly away: so that they live
very tame.
II guess they will make good decoys
this winter the doctor remarked.
The Runaways had a great time last
Sunday on their weekly outing at ely
mont. Md. among those IN the party
being Mack Sparrough. Gus Herrler
Charles Spices, Harry Albrecht. James
Boz. Gus Voigt. John Undertake. Eu-
gene Sanders. Jake Dougherty. J.. II.
Richard Smith. John Keen, August
Schmidt William Short. Lewis Daymond,
William Short and William Thomas.
An early morning start from the foot of
18th street southeast put the anglers on
the fishing grounds In time to catch the
test soon on.
Mack Sparrough is a champion eel
catcher" observed Gus Herrler. before
starting out in small boat with him.
Lewis Raymond being the third member
Of the party. But who wants to catch
eels?" he added.
When Sparrough had really caught
several big cells Herrler said he was only
joking.
I'll forgive you this time" Sparrough
eels Here they are"
Mack Sparrough caught the greatest
number of rockfish, while Herrler caught
the largest ones Charlie Spiess. who has
a bowling record. did not fail to score.
Charlie was always good at rolling
the balls down the alley" commented
one of the party, land when he goes
fishing he can hit 'em il he can't catch
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splendid condition up the river the past
week. and those who went after the
game fish on their weekend outings were
able to bring back substantial evidence
of success.
John w Hurley and George Doane fish
ed near Weverton and Knoxville. the for
mer getting thirteen and the latter eight
bass. Doane landed the largest bass. the
fish weighing more than two and one-haif
pounds.
And" remarked one of the anglers,
1--WE had the usual luck of missing some
big ones, but these are dog days and too
much should not be expected.
George II. Cooke. Louis keyser and d.
j. Murphy scored a bakers dozen the
same day. Their string would have been
much larger had it not been that several
fish left the trio after drawn m sight of
the boat.
Only, four members Of the Happy Six
Club We're in evidence at Trammells Sun
day. Clarence Reizenstein put the others
N the shade when it came to question
OF catching big bass, and plenty of them
Personally said Joe Kaufman. con-
ndentially, II think Clarence is the best
herman in the club. although there are
others who do not agree with me, and
when he makes a remarkable catch
think il is due TO his ability as a fisher
man.s
Capt Julius Baumgarten had such good
luck that he fingered Il couple of days
longer with Ike Goodman his fishing
companion. but the two anglers failed to
duplicate Clarence ReiZensteins catch Of
two three-pounders.
"Ciean-up man is what Capt. Baum
garten's fellow clubmen term him. It is
explained that the captain likes no sur
plus supplies in the boat when he is
fishing and. il is said Of him, he casts
into the water what the others leave
about the boat.
Sundays outing netted a string OF nine
fish, while many more We're caught
the following day by the two who re-
manned
for catching toadfish while on an outing
on the lower river recently as the guest
OF Frank H. Walker aboard the yacht