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

| fisherman came near gong overheard att
/ er it,
| Bruce Schuyler. Gene Palmer and John
/ W. Wilson were also members of the
| party. j. X. Smith met the party AT
| Brandywine and participated In the hsh-
/ ing. but he failed to score as many toads
| Leaving here at o'clock Sunday morn
| ing. the anglers made short stop at
| Brandywine and reached Benedict In
| time to get on the river at daybrea Z.
and the early morning fishing was fine.
although in the afternoon the fish came
the way of the fishermen and were
| caught
| Karl Achterkirchens disappointment
at losing the big fish, declares Bruce
/ he does not yet know what kind of a
/ fish it was Fully 800 fish were landed,
the string including more than forty
rockfish. trout. tailors and croakers.
the fish weighing almost one pound. An
oyster scald was participated in by the
anglers in the afternoon.
! On the return trip the Brandywine
member of the party led the singing at
/ a colored camp meeting, where a half
4 hour stop was made.
| IF you go fishing for bass and can't
/ get them" says Arthur Gleason do the
next best thing: catch what you can"
| b;tt went to Great Falls several days ago.
! hoping they would be able to get few
bass. They took chicken bait with them
| for Mississippi catfish in case the bass
! they were ready to return they had as
many fish as they could well handle.
| Bass came along rather slow for u.s.
said one of the trio, ''and We prepared
| for the Mississippi catfish"
Three dozen catfish were landed by
( b, IF them waiOhfror
than four pounds each, and five bass
were caught.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Donovan, Mr.
and Mrs. E. ]. Mudd. Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
! liam Eccard and Erskine Rupp motored
| to Benedict last Sunday and helped to
| deplete the river of trout, rockfish and
spots.
| The party reached Benedict by way of
Brandywine and Horse Head, preferring
that route to the longer one by way
of Hughesville, although less sand is en-
countered on the road through Hughes
vile.
Mr.. Rupp won the laurels for the big
gest fish, landing -two-pound trout
Rockfish Weighing as much as IA pounds
and some large spots were taken. the
party returning with long strings of the
several kinds of fish as result of the
days sport.
Michael Gray, Charlie Duke, Billy Ma
| lone. John Barry and Cornelius Taylor.
aboard the Old Glory. sailed to Pohick
| with Capt Flick Miles one day the past
| week and tried their luck for mouth
! bass.
When fisherman go aboard the Old
Glory sad Charles Mullen, "they are
| sure to have good luck, for Capt. Miles
| knows where to anchor to get the finny
tribe
| Bait was plentiful. and the number put
| overheard was calculated to attract the
| bass. The anglers had a count Of 43
| fish when they started homeward.
Capt. Lucien Davis took a party Of
! friends to Quantico bay several days
ago hoping they would find water con-
dtions all right for bass and perch.
| Those in the party were Clarence Cal
strom. James Springmann and Rudy
| Hornbeck.
I'VE had all kinds of bait,' Jim Spring
mann said. but it seemed to be an off
| day for the fish,
A few rockfish and white perch came
/ along, however, and the party succeeded
| in getting a fairly good lot of them.
! Charlie Porter and Ringgold Hart last
I Sunday went from Great Falls to PENN
| fields after bass. The water was rather
! warm FOR fishing. the anglers thought.
! but they got several bass, the largest
weighing 21G pounds.
| land singular thing about most of the
/ fish we caught" Charlie Porter remarked,