Evening star., 1913-10-11


He realizes, however. that the catch was
nothing more than an accident, the
cloudy condition of the water having
made the river anything but attractive
to anglers.
But it was a fish, the colonel sad,
"ard il counted as much as it would had
the conditions been more propitious.
Up-rlver sportsmen are resting at pres
ent, visiting the river cnly to look 1t over,
after the fashion of the followers Of the
races going to the stable to dope" out
tine good things. Last Sunday Col.
hurley started in the direction OF Har-
pers Ferry to get duplicate of the nre-
FOUNDER he caught the Sunday before,
but an eleventh hour message toiu MN
not to come.
+ Suffering from severe attack OF hSh-
ing fever, however. the angler vas not
able to content himself away from the
river. and he thought he would Tide as
far as Great Falls to look things over.
tatrick Riordan was satisfied 10 turn
back when he reached Aqueduct bridge.
but his friend thought he might make a
catch at Great Falls, and so up the river
he went.
All he got was a good country dinner.
He had fish to eat, but when he return
ell home he had no fish to show for his
outing and had to admit that stay-at-
home friend had been as successful as lie
had been on the river.
Bass fishermen are expecting great
things as soon as the water cieafS. II
has been many weeks since the coioi
wanted in order to enjoy the sport. &c
casionally an angler, tired OF the long
wait, tried his luck and managed 70 PICK
up fish or two, but the most or them
have been off the river so long they rear
they will have to take lessons in cast
ing when the river clears.
: Complaint is made that outlines are
beng successfully used at some places
between the city and Harpers Ferry ana
that many fine bass have been caught
by the 'pothunters. 1t Is SAID by
and in traps is violation of law, and
some of them are discussing the ques-
ton of trying to have stop put to it,
law or no he eraetiee on on
catching fish on outlines never will
be stopped. 1t is true that many
bass have been caught on such lines. but
the traps do not stop many small-mouth
bass, the game ,ers being able to fight
their way out of the traps"
Arrangements have been made by
number of bass fishermen to spend the
latter part Of. this month on the Po-
tomac or Shenandoah river, favorable
water and weather to determine the
going. Mai E. II. Neumeyer arranged
for trip to points between Rileyville
postpone it on account Of the water.
E. A. Strachan and wife and c. r.
Holman recently spent day getting ac-
quainted with the fish in Aqua creek.
And they made successful effort"
remarked friend who saw them when
they returned.
There is usually good sport to be had
and Quantico, fishermen say, but Aqua
creek has furnished more sport than the
others this season.
Reaching the creek shortly after break
fast time, the trio soon found that the
fish were biting, Mrs. Strachan having
first fish.
/. First. it was the taking of a bass, then
a pike and occasionally a perch. Some
of the bass weighed as much as 3k
pounds and the pike 21s pounds. while
the perch were by no means small.
Two dozen bass, eight pike and long
string of white perch were landed. Live
bait was used.
Capt Tony Schroth, Virgil Healy and
John Thompson are able to boast of a
big catch they made on the Patuxent
on the occasion of a recent trip on Capt.
Schroth's boat.
It was early in the morning when lines
were cast near Benedict, one of the fa-
yorite fishing spots on the Patuxent. and
the fish came so fast that the anglers
almost grew weary of the sport.
''They made one of the biggest catches
of the season., was the word received
from Benedict "and they had so many
fish that they hardly knew what to do
with them"
1--WE often heard fishermen joke about
their catches friend of the anglers
said, but not until the trio made the
big catch recently did / ever know of
catch that required the use of some
thing other than strings and the fisher
men to transport their fish,.
Many trout weighing more than three
pounds were among the assortment of
fish.
Mack Sparrough last Sunday motored
to Rock Point. Md, with John Button
and William Howard of La Plata, Md,
and the trio surprised the natives with
the big catch they made.
Rock Point is one OF the most at
tractiye places in this vicinity" COM
mented Mack Sparrough upon his return
from the trip. land it is destined to be
resort for Washington automobilists in
the near future.
added, land soon the road vii! be as
good as any highway in this section.
And the best of ALL he concluded,
sis, the fish are there"
An. early start was made by the fisher
men, AID when they left the river in the
afternoon they had a count OF consider
ably more than SEQ fish. Included In
their long string of fish were hfty-sfx
trout and three dozen rockf1sh. The
others we:e white perch.
Anglers are glad to- learn that the
Eastern branch. both above and below
Benning bridge is furnishing sport.
Years ago there was excellent fishing
along the branch, but later fish were not
plentiful enough there to attract the
sportsmen, and 1t was thought they had
been driven away by the coal gas from
the gas plant.
Recently, however, some good catches
have been made, and anglers are re-
turning there to try their luck. Joseph
are three anglers who boast of the inter-
esting sport they enjoyed on the branch
shortly before the water got muddy.
The trio caught a long string or big
yellow perch and few other fish.
And yellow perch" said one of them,
are well worth catching, more especially
the larger ones. They do not give up
when caught. but put UP a strong fight
Ringhold Hart recently had the laugh
on a party of anglers Who were unwill-
ing to surrender a few bait when he
found himself on the river without any.
He had gone to the vicinity OF Malta
woman creek to fish for plymouth bass.
and it happened that he could not get
the bait he had been promised.
Seeing anglers in a nearby boat with
the lone fisherman called and asked Ii he
could get few,
I'm willing to pay any price for them,
said the angler, who did not want TO be
disappointed.
Unable to be accommodated. the angler