Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-13


fer that sort of sport Such fish are
being caught in many of the small
creeks between this city and SAT- water.
and hundreds of fishermen are making
trips for them.
Capt j. Moler Anderson left on his
launch J. NJ. a. Wednesday morning
before daybreak with a party of friends
TO spend the day in the vicinity of Acco-
tink creek, where Ringgold Hart says
there are bass as big as what Patrick
Riordan calls horses
Uncle John Berry, +. Z. Wiler. Joe
Archer, Charlie Mullen and Ringgold
Hart were Capt. Andersons guests.
When the party reached Accotink creek
before day and were taking Il last nap
before trying their luck they We're ten
dered a serenade from the yawl, two
cats having been in the small craft look
ing for food when the start was made
and having been unable to get ashore.
mo fish today" said Charlie Mullen.
Two cats, a gray and Il black, are bad
luck
But eighteen bass were caught and
the cats were brought safely home. 1t
was two hours after the lines We're wet
before any signs of fish were seen, and
then Ri gold Hart caught what Capt.
Anderson termed round fish, A sec
ond big eel was landed before the bass
took the bait
Capt. Lee Baumgarten and Sydney
Kaufman last week made one of the best
catches of sma I-mouth bass that has
been heard of this season. They went to
Niolet's, at Seneca, Md, where Jim
Bendon plotted them to places where
bass We're plentiful and a catch Of
twenty-eight fish was made one day.
II was late in the afternoon when the
anglers reached Seneca in an automo-
bile and although they had but a short
tine for fishing they landed four bass.
The following day they fished at Anchor
Rock and landed an even dozen.
Saturday changed places said
sydney kaufman. and also changed
cur luck. catching fish enough 10 give
- our banner day"
Jim Benson poled the pair of sports
men 10 Seneca breakers. below the dam.
and soon II became evident that they
were going to have fine sport. the first
aass appearing almost the instont that
Sydney kaufman's bait dropped into the
water
seven bass, and by dinner time they had
seventeen more. \ catch of four fish
IN the afternoon brought the days total
10 tHenty-eight fish, the largest weigh
'loudy water greeted the anglers the
ilrst day, but each day thereafter it
Showed an improvement.
A catch of two barrels of fish in four
hours was the record catch recently made
i. Nj
Cathran. s. G.. Haslup and V r. I.onsi-
netti. The trio of East Washington ang-
iers have fished in the vicinity OF the is
land for several seasons, but never before
we're they able to make so big a catch
Is that made last week
I'VE were unfortunate IN getting a
ror' easter" said one of the trio land the
rough water made fishing difficult mat
ter for 81 couple of days. but as soon as
the water was calm enough To permit us
~ get TO winter quarters We caught the
FISH,"
The four hours fishing was done in the
deep water fully twenty miles from,
shore. most OF the large fish being caught
an a wreck
FULLY thirty years ago" explained one
az the fishermen. "a vessel laden with pie
Iron was wrecked and ii went down with
Its cargo. A second vessel came along
and was wrecked by the wreckage of the
first Then the government got busy and
dynamite1 the obstruction. leaving one OIL
the wrecked vessels there
1T was while fishing over this wreck.
added the fishermen, that We made the
big haul. A sea pilot weighing eigh,
pounds was the largest of the two barrels
OF sea nsh landed, while bluefsh and
trout weighing as much as five pounds
also were caught
Many large sea bass. porgies and croak.
trs also were taken On their return trip
the trio stopped at Ocean City two days
They did no fishing there, however, and
rested from their strenuous ten-day out
ing pulling in the big fish.
Karl Achterkirchen last Sunday hook.
ed the biggest fish that was ever seen al
benedict" John w. Hurley said upon his
return from the Patuxent river resor,
Sunday night, ..and some big vnes have
been caught there
..But" ne added. "Achtersirchen's bic
trle. like all the biggest ONES. loft hi mat
tat waters edge, ard tine disappointed