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

fer that sort of sport. Such fish are
be.ns caught in many of the small
cresks between this city and salt water.
and hundreds of fishermen are making
trips for them.
aBpt 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 Ringgod Hart says
there are bass as big as what Patrick
Riortlan calls horses
Uncle John Berry, +. T.. Wiler. Joe
Archer, Charlie Mullen and Ringgold
ty.rt We're capt. Anderson's guests.
Wh-n the party reached Accotink creek
beI2re day and We're taking a last nap
before trying their luck they We're ten
dercd :; serenade from the yawl. two
,ars having been in the small craft look
inx. for food when the start was made
and having been unable to get ashore
"No fish today" said Charlie Mullen.
five cats, a gray and a black. are bad
luck.
Hot eighteen bass We're caught, and
the, eats were brought safely home. 1t
was two hours after the lines were wet
before any signs of fish were seen, and
thefI ri gold Hart caught what Capt.
.tptlSrSo3 termed q round fish" \ sec
ond bi- eel was landed before the bass
took thu bait,
Capt Ice Baumgaften and Sydney
Kaufman last week made one OF the best
catches Of small-nouth bass that has
been heard OF this season. They went to
Niolet's. Al Seneca. Md. where Jim
Pehdon plotted them to places where
bass We're plentiful, and a catch Of
t~enty-eight fish made one day.
.t-Was late in the afternoon when the
anglers yeached Seneca in an automo-
bile. ands although they had but a short
tine for iisk.ng they landed four bass.
The fClicTinS day they fiShed al Anchor
iiGEk and landed an even dozen
iE2tufdaS We changed places" said
sydney Kaufman. and also changed
our luck. catching fish enough to give
Us our banner DAY.
Jim Benson polcd the pair of sports
men 10 Seneca breakers. below the dam.
and soon il became evident that they
were going TO have fine sport, the first
bass appearing almost the instont that
sydney kau mans bait dropped into the
water.
Before breakfast time they landed
seven bass. and by dinner time they had
seventeen more. y catch OF four fish
in the afternoon brought the days total
- twenty eight fish, the largest weigh
ing three and one-quarter pounds
cloudy water greeted the anglers the
first day but each day thereafter it
showed an Improvement.
4 catch OF two barrels of fish in four
hnars Was the record catch recently made
ataGhincoteague Island by Frank G. Nc
clthrau. 5. 6. Haslup and V. d. Longi-
nstti The trio of East Washington ang-
lers have fished in the vicinity of the is
land for several seasons. but never before
were they able to make so big catch
as that made last week.
I'VE were unfortunate in getting a
nor easter" said one of the trio. land the
roUah water made fishing a difficult mat
ter for couple Of days. but as soon as
the water was calm enough to permit us
asS.. =
The four hours fishing was done in the
deep water fully twenty miles from
shore. most OF the large fish being caught
off "A wreck.
Fully thirty years ago" explained one
Of the fishermen. "a vessel laden with pig
iron was wrecked and ii went down with
It's cargo second vessel came along
and was wrecked by the wreckage Of ths
first. Then the government got busy and
dynamited the obstruction, leaving one OF
the wrecked vessels there
1T was while fishing over this wreck "
added the fishermen. that we made the
big haul sea pilot weighing eight
pounds was the largest of the two barrels
OF sea fish landed. while bluefsh and
trout weighing as much as five pounds
also were caught.
Many large sea bass. porgies and croak-
ers also were taken. On their return trir
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 a
Benedict" john W. Hurley said upon hi,
return from the P;ituxeat river rescr
SUNDAY night. and some big ones hav,
beep caught there.
"But" he added "Achterkirchen's bis
one. Hike all the biggest ones, left nj maj
ths water's "dc". and the disanH"int"f