Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-01

fetal bait About fifty bass and pike
were caught by the couple.
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John r. Sturgis, James Greengood and
T. III. Sturgis have returned from an out
ing at Aqua creek. Six days were spent
ON the river and the trio enjoyed fine
| sport. The muddy water up the river did
not interfere with sport at Aqua, and
while sportsmen who are satisfied only
| with the small-mouth bass fishing were
resting on their oars the down-river fish
ermen were enjoying themselves.
Aqua creek is easily reached and the
| fishing grounds are not far from the
|, railroad station, so that not much trou-
be is experienced reaching there
At the end Of the six-day trip the
anglers had count of eighty big bass
and pike. many smaller ones having been
returned to the water or found their
way to the table.
One bass day four days in succession
and ''whitewash" the fifth day was the
experience of Mack Sparrough fishing in
the tidal basin this week.
Rather hard luck for an expert" COM
mented Dick Pced, who recently returned
from a successful trip to Catoctin.
And" suggested John w. Hurley. 1T
shows the fish are not always to be
caught"
Mack says the fish are in the basin. He
thinks the water Is not in proper cOndi-
ton just yet but when it clears the fish
ought to be plentiful and the cold water
should make the sport more interesting.
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Frank NJ. Johnson, one Of the faithful
sportsmen, has been on the job this fall.
Finding it impossible to get far away
from the city every time he wants to go
away, he has tried his luck about the
tidal basin several times.
vat he.
"but the fish will be there later
Frank still delights in telling his
friends of successful trip he had to
Camatop not long ago. Twenty-seven
bass that weighed sixty pounds and a
few pike were caught.
And expect to duplicate that catch
before the close of the season..
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Charlie Porter sustained an injury to
his arm ten days ago so severe that he
may been unable to do any fishing, and to
be deprived of the sport when so many of
his friends are catching fish, Charlie says,
is almost as bad as depriving him of his
meals.
But ! have to go and look 'em over,'
says the enthusiastic sportsman.
The fisherman hopes he will be able to
take a trip to the upper Potomac before
the close of the season.
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Doc Harrison was in the city this
week telling of his past and prospective
experiences about his farm above Great
Falls.
Fishing is going to be better this fall
eran bass fisherman. 1.-The water has
been high and muddy SO long that it has
prevented hundreds of anglers from TAX
ing fish from the water, and as soon as ii
clears and gets lower there will be fine
sport"
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Inspector Boardinan. chief of detectives
and Detective Frank Baur expect to land
some of the big bass in the Potomac and
Monocacy rivers early the coming week
trip was arranged for last week, but
bad weather and muddy water caused a
postpOnement.
There's no place like Red Rock for
bass fishing" says Inspector Boardman
The inspector has Gshcd there in all
kinds of weather and. he says, he al
| ways gets good big fish. He tried his
! luck there in snowstorm several years
| ago and caught fish.
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!, Scores OF fishermen and gunners left
| the city yesterday and this morning to
enjoy shooting birds and rabbits. as we'll
as to catch fish, the cunning season in
! most of the nearby counties having
opened today.
If we can't shoot birds we can catch
fish, said Capt. Billy Hettinger. who has
! arranged a trip on the Patuxent in his
launch the coming week.
Capt. Hettinger says that ducks and
birds are plentiful a.ong the PatuXent.
but shooting without a license is pro-
hibited
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John Z. Buckingham. veteran angler,
is displaying a paper pattern to show the
size of a rockf1sh he caught at organs
point. near the government fish atching
station last week The fish weighed
more than fourteen pounds.
And it was not the only one We
caught" the angler stated, but the 9TH
ers were much smaller than the big
one that we didn't count them.
They've got to come big for u.s., he
added ''or we don't count them