Evening star., 1914-10-31

H. w. Byers held the record for catch
| ing rockf1sh at Plum point, Calvert coun-
ty, Md. for just one week He caught
a seventeen-and-on -one-half-pou fish two
weeks ago. and a week ago Bertram C.
Wheeler landed fish that weighed twen-
ty-one and one-half pounds.
'Is that you, Byers?" called Wheeler
over the long-distance telephone from
Plum point.
I'D like to have the big fish you
caught last week to feed it to my monster
for a Sunday dinner" he added.
Landing so big a fish, said Wheeler.
sends thrill through an angler that is
not often experienced. He caught the
fish while angling at night from the new
pier at Plum Point, the big one being
one Of twelve fish that were caught by
the several members Of the party
Howard Topham. Harry Barrick. NJ b.
Hooper and Henry Farnham were the
other members of the party. A delayed
automobile trip over the forty-seNen
miles between this city and Plum point
landed them at the bay resort long after
sundown.
made no difference. The water was too
clear for day y-fishing, and it was our IN
tention to do our fishing at night
1t was just fifteen minutes after mid
night when Wheeler got a strike and
hooked the big fish, and it was exactly
2 o'clock when the monster was landed.
The rockfish was forty and one-half
inches long, more than five inches longer
than the one caught by Byers the previ-
GUS week.
largest fish, roclkfish that weighed
almost eight pounds. while Barrick land
ed two fish weighing more than hve
pounds apiece.
And Barrick hooked an immense fish
that he lost" said Wheeler. Il believe
the lost fish was considerably larger than
the one 1 landed
Twelve fish caught by the five anglers
weighed sixty-four pounds
Harry Fleischman of Alexandria gave
a party of Washington sportsmen the use
of his bungalow at Riverside, Va, one
afternoon not long ago. The anglers
wanted to try fishing in Little Hunting
creek and thought the use of the bunga-
low would make the trip more pleasant.
1T is always Il good thing to have a
Headquarters" said Ward Savage.
member of the party. ''If the sun shines
too hot it's 4 good place to go for relief.
and e the weather turns cold it's well
10 have a place where friends may sit
about a stove and tell fish stories
Daniel Doody, W. ID. Barry, FitZhugh
Tayloe, Or. William f. Walters. Charles
Mcdonald and Dr. Victor Mcknight were
Washington members of the party, George
Wells of Alexandria being the other men,
Der.
Ward Savage was so certain of getting
a string of bass that he robbed his
aquarium OF some of its most attractive
small fish, but all he was able to catch
was a string of yellow perch. The trip
proved interestin;; and eventful, but in
order to get fish enough FOR Try IL be
came necessary to patronize one of the
netters in the creek.
w. D. Barry acted the part oil captain
of one of the boats. and he was SO
soIicitous of the welfare OF Cousin Dan
and others that he failed to keep con-
stautly reminded of the points of the
compass. Dan Dcody made the catch of
the dav He succeeded in landing a
string of large perch, while mis- less for
tunate companions had to be satisfied
with a few small ones.
! Rock point. Md. was the destination
of John w. Hurley, William E. Dulin,
| Karl Achterkirchen and Bruce Schuyler
| last Sunday morning. The sportsmen got
an early start. but automobile trouble
delayed them in Anacostia and neces-
STATED getting another car A second
start was made, and additional trouble
delayed them some distance from the
| city.
| TT was o'clock in the morning when
We started said Hurley. land it was
after II O'Clock when we feached the
lWicomico. We should have been there
lin time for breakfast"
But alrs well that ends we'll added
Achterkirchen. "and we got what We
went after--fish."
| boatman had everything in readi-
ness for the anglers when they reached
Rock point. He took them in the direc-
ton of Swan point. opposite Colonial
Beach. and 1t was not long before fish
were coming their way.
Eighteen rockfish took the, blood
worms and shrimp cast by the anglers
and they caught a string of large
perch. number of croakers and one
trout.
Timothy Costello, William E Spillane
Thomas Breslin, John w. Work ant
sylvester Murphy. members of tn,
Riverside Rod and Gun Club. on Little
Tturtir- creek. We're at the club las