Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-17

bass. the largest of them weighing
| three pounds, but the weather was sc
warm that it was impossible to keeI
| them all alive. Iney managed to bring
| home thirtytwo fish.
| Nineteen members of the Runaways
boarded the Gamble Sunday morning
| for trip to the vicinity Of Pennington
village near the head of Piscataway
creek, on their annual fishing and oyster
| roast outing.
| 1t was long after dawn when the
Runaways boarded the craft and started
for Harrington with an ample supply
of biwalves and accessories aboard. The
, trip was made In a short time, and
when landing was made fire was
started and the roast was soon on.
i Many members Of the party remained
about the fire to watch the roasting
of the oysters and to enjoy them. while
others went 20 the river and tried their
luck at fishing.
Luck was not with u.s." said Mack
Sparrough. "All we caught was a string
of yellow perch. Not a single bass was
caught"
Those who enjoyed the outing we're
Harry Albrecht. Max Schmidt. Mack
Sparroush. Julius Duehrtng. Gus Voighs,
Henry owens. Robert Ogle, john
Harry Reed. James Mckeon. J. w. Bar
bee. Eugene Sanders. Richard Smith,
, Oscar Scnleichert. August Herrler. Ran
dali Parsons and Walter keeton.
Archie Wells and Pat Carroll. fishing
for yellow perch in one of the small
tributaries of the PatuXent. near Mount
Calvert stopped their sport long enough
to witness fight between large water
moccasin and a catfish.
And the catfish was ten or twelve
inches long" declared Carroll
The anglers were Gated in i hDat near
flock of blackbirds and a few Grtolan fly
over them while they did their best to
get perch enough for fry. and the
stiffness was broken by the noise of the
snake struggling to get the fish from
the water
1T finally succeeded in getting the
catfish on the mud" said Carroll. and
there it was nip and tuck until the fish
souirmed back into the water.
The snake was too quick for the tSh.
however. and soon overlook it. he
added. and we finally went to the as
sistance of the fish and liberated it."
The anglers caught a long string OF
large perch.
Lieut.. J. w Myers of No. Il engine
company and Charles f. Myers. his
brother. enjoyed a two-dav outing at
Benedict. Charles county. Nd the past
week. The brothers motored to the
county seat one afternoon and fished
part of the day. renewing their sport
early the next morning.
'They fshed both above and below
the town" said Jim Spring.nann. hut
were unable to get away from the
fish. The fish followed them in every
direction and they made Il big catch. y
The anglers caught considerably
more than leo pounds of fish. Their
catch included many large trout and
croakers. a few rockfish and numerous
smaller fish.
I'VE have been having east winds
during the past few days and fishing
has not been SO good" is what A. L.
Reinburg of the Sharp Shinn Fishing
Club wrote from Catoctin this week.
The several members of the club
caught fifty-nine bass during the week.
Al Reinbure leading with a fish that
weighed three and three-quarter
pounds. Last year Dick Peed landed
four-pound bass not far from where
the clubs boat is anchored. and. it is
stated, he thinks he is going to get
another one this year
He positively refuses to fish far from
the hole in which he caught the big
one. wrote Al Reinburs.
Wnlle Cameron. Nugent. Reinburs
ana reed are trying for bass record,
Ed burrows is spending much of his
time IN the mountains. He has gath
ered three bushels of Walnuts and eN-
camp breaks
Mack Sparrough, w W. Deal and E
+. stunkel We're on the bay and Sew
ern river near Annapolis one day last
week They were anxious to catch a
on the trip. but when they returned
they told how delighted they were with
an attractive string of trout.
Forty-two trout were caught by the
three anglers. They did not take any