Evening star., 1914-09-26

forced to cut the lines. Mr.. Sahdala
caught sheepshead which weighed
fourteen and a half pounds, while he
| also pulled in an eel which tipped the
scales at twelve pounds and a half. The
largest bass he landed weighed sixteen
pounds.
, The large catch of the fisherman was
displayed at store on the Boardwa!k
at Atlantic City, and attracted consid-
erable attention.
Mr.. Sahdala is now at Harvey Cedar
with the Asbury Park Fishing Club.
and his friends are awaiting his stories
of large catches there.
Detective Boyle of police headquar-
, ters and W. E. Wright are completing
arrangements for a hunting trip near
New Castle. Pa. in November. They
have been invited by friend to spend
estate. which covers about 1000 acres.
Detective Boyle hopes to bag more
! than one deer on the trip.
spent eight days on the lower Potomac,
has returned home and the members
of the party are telling their friends
of the large strings of fish they landed
each day.
Detective Charles Mullin declared
that it has been a long time since he
saw so many fish pulled in on such a
| trip. The fishermen had all OF the nsh
| they desired to eat and brought a
good string home with them.
They went down the river on capt:
J. NJ. Anderson's yacht, j. NJ. A, and
visited Aqua creek, Chappawamsic
creek and Mattawoman creek Those In
the party were Ringgold Hart. Charles
Mullin, Capt. Anderson, Joseph Archer
and Harry Redmile.
Two hours of fine fishing were spent
Monday evening off the end of the sea
wall in the Georgetown channel by
Capt. William Montair, U. S. NJ. c.. re-
tired; Frank Hatch, J. W Green. J: R
Evans. George Totten and Frank Ev-
ans. Eighteen pounds of bass. weigh
ing from one to two and one-half
pounds each. were landed
caught fish. while Earl Evans. the
eleven-year old son of J. r. Evans,
caught the largest, about dark. The
boy was fishing alone at the time, but
did not tell the. others in the party
that he had hooked the fish until he
landed it. Frank Evans, another son,
thirteen years old, caught a large Mis-
sissippi catfish, which weighed three
and one-half pounds. The fish the boys
caught were landed on smelt, while
the others were caught on spoon bait.
F. N. Thomas, ]. P. Hodges. c. wah-
Ter, V. Wahler and J. Wahler went to
Rock point Friday of last week and
uSneu several udSS, Will uUe iuCh
They caught so many fish the first day
that they decided to stay longer and
enjoy the sport.
Large strings of fish were caught
early this week at Rock point by Cyrus
F. Bright, William E. Raab, Edwin w
Raab, A. S. Smith, Capt. Dingy, Harry
o. Gartner, William r. Hodges, P. F.
Alexander and F. M. Perce. together
with Thornton Chestey, Frederick Har-
veycutter. Walter Wynth, William E.
Whitson and Wesley M. Blackman.
Dr.. and Mrs. J. Pendegast, with DR.
B. F. Pendegast and Mrs. John w. Byae
and daughter, enjoyed some good fish,
ing last Sunday at Rock point. as did
w j. Whitson, E. J. Clarkson, ]. E.
Whitson. H. F. B. Vaughan and Mrs
P. N. Chaplin.
Fishing alone in a canoe last Sunday
in the ripples above Cabin John, Mrs
Mary Reed landed two bass The larg-
est weighed two pounds. and the fair
f1shefVomAn had some difficulty in get
it into the; canoe. Mrs. Reed is an en-
thusfastic fisherwoman and spends
much OF her spare time in angling in
the waters of the Potomac.