Evening star., 1914-10-24

provements were in progress, and
reached the Wicomico river in time for
| breakfast.
| Capt. johnson. one of the numerous
| boatmen at Rock point, took the fisher
men out to a point where he found
! good bottom. and it was not long be-
pulling in fish.
And we caught about eighty fish, -
said Milton Kaufman. Included in our
string were trout, rockflsh and perch
N. N Mock enjoyed a weekend out
ing at Penniield's. where anglers al
ways expect to experience luck He
was there not long ago. however. when
he did not make killing" but last
Sunday he was successful enough to
land fourteen bass.
| There was considerably more water
i in the river last Sunday than there was
on the prior OCCASION commented the
angler. "and fishing was greatly i'm
proved.
The angler thinks a few fall rains
will be the means of making the sport
much better than it has been during
the past few weeks. His largest fish
last Sunday weighed four pounds.
John Keans. William Keans. George
Taggart, Harry Wheeler and George
Hutton were among the many pisca-
torial artists who were on the river
early Sunday morning. They made
their arrangements Saturday afternoon
and were on their way to Mattawoman
creek long before dawn.
| A quick run was made in a launch
| the anglers reaching the fishing grounds
in time to catch part of the proper tide
and in less than two hours thev had a
catch of twenty-eight plymouth bass.
| Big-mouth bass in Mattawoman creek
are taking the spoon in preference to
live bait. anglers state, and some OF
the largest catches are being made with
the artificial bait.
William Wynkoop and Mack Spar
rough were on the river last Sunday.
They went to Little river, hoping they
would catch a few big yellow perch.
but luck was against them, and they
returned home without fish.
I'VE sat in a boat for five or six
hours said Sparrough, "and nothing
disturbed our bait during all that time.
the first time we had had such an ex-
perience."
An angler who did his fishing a short
distance from Wynkoop and Sparrough
caught few small perch. Carroll Money
was on Little river Sunday equipped
with bait for plymouth bass. He caught
no bass. he said, but did succeed in
landing a few large perch.
| c. c. Clark and Gilbert Kelly are
spending the week end at Seneca Md,
where so many anglers tell of the Mary
land fried chicken dinners that make
them forget fishing when they have poor
luck with hook and line.
| Mr.. Kelly, a native of this city and
connected with the teaching staff at
Central High School. did most of his
fishing in New England when his home
was here. and never tried small-mouth
bass fishing on the upper Potomac.
Now that he is resident Of Chi
cago." remarked W. P. Bowie. "he has
come here to try fishing
| Thomas Brown tried his luck at Tram
melrs several days ago and caught four
lively small-mouth bass. Mr.. Brown is
an enthusiastic angler and has fished in
manv streams.
And" he remarked. "I have ta,ren
many longer and more extensive fishing
trips than my trim to Great Falls and
had much worse luck"
The angler thinks the water above
Great Falls is about as attractive as
any bass fishing place within many
miles of Washington, and he thinks
there are plenty bass to be caught
there.
Rockflsh are still in evidence in the
vicinity of the steel plant and point of
the channels. George Lewis, Fred Bau-
man and Chat Towers were about 100
yards south of the red buoy last Sun
day with supply Of bloodworms and
| had good luck.
"Rockflsh usually take the bait on
the outgoing tide" said Chat Towers,
but last Sunday we were on the river
| fifteen fish,
The fish caught by the trio weighed
from one to two pounds each.
Kane, Harry Barger, John Dean and a
colored boatman were in two boats
| near the meeting of the channels
Wednesday afternoon. They were not
| far from where Chat Towers and his
friends caught fifteen fish Sunday, but,
said one of the anglers, Sunday and
Wednesday were entirely different
days.
The five anglers and their boatman
landed ten rockfish and several yellow
honors with five fish. Barger and Por-
ter each caught two rock, Kane caught
, one and all that Buchler caught was
yellow perch. Dean failed to catch a
! fish.
NAL E. H. Neumeyer is spending a
| few days at Harpers Ferry. He went
| there early in the week and tried his
hand at bass fishing. He found the
sport much more exciting and interest
ing than he did catching on the lower
| Potomac last week.
| Wednesday the angler fished near
| Millville. a short distance from Har-
| pers Ferry, and took two dozen bass
| ITOHl Tic oueHduuodu Sulpp6Q CQ6
| fish home.
Austin Savage, Matthew Ridden and
| Len Ogden abandoned a proposed bass
trip to the upper Potomac last Sun
| day and went to Grave1ly creek, near
the south end of Highway bridge. in
| stead.
I'VE expected to get few plymouth
bass" said Ridden, "and we got very
few. Ogden got one. the only one that
| was caught"
The trio caught a string of yellow
| perch and two white perch. They pre-
! sented the fish to Ward Savage for
| his new aquarium.
| Arthur Bauer and ]. Walter Hurley
are going to try their luck at Viewer
ton tomorrow. Bauer has never caught
a small-mouth bass. He gave the fish
a trial several weeks ago, had several
strikes, and. his companion says.
equipped for the sport and expects to
| land several fish tomorrow
1t is reported that there is splendid
fishing in the vicinity of Chesapeake
Beach Last Sunday John Lupton and
his SON caught a string of several
dozen trout. T. A. Wickersham went
to Chesapeake Beach a week ago to