Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-13


members of the Happy Six Fishing Club
were on the river practically every Sun
day, when weather and water conditions
made 1t seem possible to get a string
of bass.
Times have changed" commented Joe
C. Kaufman last Sunday, pointing with
pride to a string of eighteen small
mouth bass that three Of the regulars
and two recruits had caught. "and now
we are trying to get a new name for
the club.
THE reason for the prospective change"
he added, is explained in the words of
the familiar song: My Wife Won't Let
Me-" Joe thinks it rather hard on the
sportsmen that they have to remain at
home all the time and he suggests that
the wives might be induced to enjoy the
sport.
Capt. Lee Baumgarten. Corp. Ike Good
man and Joe C. kaufman. the three
regulars, had ]. F. Kahrs and William
Baumgarten as recruits on last Sun
days trip to John Trammeis and the
Black Ripples beyond.
fish," commented Joe Kaufman. ut
happened that I hung bass and caught
Goodman's line while getting the gamester
to the boat, and because his line came
with the fish he set up claim to the
bass, but his claim was all-he didn't
get the bass
Capt Baumgarten Aught his COM
panions how to catch bass, one mem
Der OF the party admitted for he caught
eight OF the string of fish landed by the
party. although WIN Baumgarten land.
ed the heaviest fish. a gamester that
| weighed nearly three pounds.
| Kahrs furnished amusement by the
| manner in which he manipulated his
| line when he got strike, Joe Kaufman
| stated, requiring all the room in the
| boat and much OF the air space above
| him in order to land his Ash.
Last Sundays outing was the initial
| trip of the season and Corp. Goodman
| was the only disappointed member Of
| the party.
And know what doomed my fish
| ing" he said 1T was because / sat
in the middle of the boat, and hereafter
it will be a bow or stern seat for me"
| IF you can't catch EN-. shoot 'em, "
is George Lloyd's method when on the
IN osd S So s the eR medal for fish,
ing honors in the vicinity Of Indian
Head, where many of Uncle Sans
fighters and others boast of their sue
he goes after the fish, his friends say.
he seldom returns empty handed.
One day this week George came to the
city to get a new supply OF tackle. He
|
about Indian Head as soon as they have
satisfied themselves near the head of
| tidewater and fall back to the deep
water, and he realized that the tackle
| he had on hand probably would fail
him with a thirty-pounder.
few days ago Lloyd and VIII
| Wheeler started out one afternoon to
| catch what George calls mess of
| a fish that weighed fifty pounds at a
distance and fifteen pounds when 1t
reached the scales. was f1oundering
about on the edge. of the marsh.
vice, but Lloyd suggested the use of a
| rifle.
Wheeler adopted the suggestion and
| got the fish.
| boy on a canal boat hooked a big one
| one day last week. and the fish towed
| his boat down stream the same as if
it had been fastened to launch"
| up on the flats near the military reser-
| walton. The fish are iced and shipped
to Philadelphia. where they are always
| in demand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest E. Mudd. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Eccard and Ernest F.
Mudd motored to Benedict. Charles
county. Md. a week ago and were on
the Patuxent river in the afternoon.
1T was rather late in the day for fish
ing. according to Tom Shorter, our boat
man" said Eccard. but we caught
three dozen big croakers. a number OF
perch and a string of eels.'
| The party made the trip to the PatuX-
ent river In less than two hours. going
by way Of Brandywine and Horsehead.
and after enjoying a shore dinner they
were taken in Tom Shorter's launch to
| the fishing grounds.
THE big croakers that we caught y
commented Eccard, were game. and
provided almost as much sport as do the
bass in the upper Potomac. I enjoyed
| catching them just as much as l enjoy
the bass fishing
Soft crabs were plentiful. the angler
stated. and were used as bait. The boat
man says that rockhsh ought to be
plentiful in the vicinity of Benedict next
month.
Will r Reynolds who landed a rock
| fish Weighing twenty-five and one-half
pounds, tells an interesting story of his
| experience although catching big ones
| is not new experience to him.
Irving Copperthite and George Turvey
ACCOMPANIED Reynolds on the trip. They
steamed between the rocks near Chain
bridge long before daybreak and made
| fast near Turkey Foot rock,
| IF there are any large rockf1sh in the
river" said Reynolds. that is the place
to find them, but they did not seem to be
plentiful that particular morning.
Batting with a live smelt, the angler
managed to get one strike. while his
companions were able to get only an oc-
casional bite of a Mississippi catfish.
Finally along came the big fish. and the
angler had an exciting time for fully
| twenty minutes.
Charlie Porter reached Trammelrs
early Sunday morning and remained until
late in the day. 1t was his first try at
catching small-mouth bass this season.
he stated and while he landed a dozen
| fish, the bass were not as large as they
might have been.
And several Of them were SO small"
he stated. that / had to return them to
| the river
Porter fished the river all the way from
Great Falls to Pennideld's and back, he
| stated. and he found the water and
| weather conditions all right for an ideal
outing His largest fish weighed only
about two pounds.
DIR. w. S. Clark was another one of the
numerous anglers who was on the river
for a weekend outing, and ne managed
to land a string of eight gamesters