Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-24

| when 1 saw the other fellows hand? l
| should say 1 was
| The angler says it is only a questioned
necessity that impels anglers to use balt
of several distasteful varieties.
account.
| sportsmen who willingly braved the
| cold weather earlier in the week. and
J who later found weather conditions on
the river pleasant enough to permit them
| to sit in boats. report that very little
was accomplished by them
' Not since last Sunday has any fish
| been caught said Mack Sparrough. who
| boasts of having landed nearly three
dozen Mississippi catfish this season
But he added. fishing ought to be
| better in few days. The water wants
to get muddy in order to make fishing
! good
Mack good luck of last week, he said,
deserted him this week, and it was i'm
| possible for him to get a strike. He is
| one of the most faithful of the local
anglers, however. and he says he will not
| give UP in disgust just because he cannot
] get fish every day.
every foot of the river from Bush eddy to
! Hen and Chickens, but did not get bite
Thursday Hardy Wilson and L. S.
Smith accompanied him to the river. They
found the water free from ice, the fisher
| man stated. but did not succeed in locat-
| ing the fish.
| Two fish were caught last Sunday.
anglers report. Harry Anderson landed
one that weighed eleven pounds. while
| William Wynkoop's fish weighed seven
| pounds. The fish were caught near
| Fletchers landing.
| Albert Bucheler Charlie Porter and
| Harry Anderson We're members of one
| party at F1etchers. while Mack Spar
rough was with Wynkoop. There was so
! m n in hn riNnr tI1o+ fha prIa
found it. necessary to do their fishing
| from shore, and Bucheer and Porter.
who are rated as experts with rod and
| line. failed to get a strike. while Ander-
| son. a novice landed the big fish
And it was the biggest fish he had ever
| caught commented Bucheler, land he
| was surprised that he scarcely knew
! what to do with it
"And I helped him pull it in" said
Charlie Porter.
Billy Cooper, George P. Doane Charles
w. King, jr.; James Smith. John b. Pey-
| ton and John J. Mccarthy. all fond OF
rod and gun sports, spent a night at
Jackson Landing Club, Patuxent river a
week ago. They went to the vicinity of
the river to enjoy a coon and possum
/ hunt, and while they enjoyed the hunt
they failed to get a coon or possum
/ But We got on the trail of one said
Billy Cooper referring to George Doane
and himself land it was not our fault
that we failed to trace it to its LAIR
| It is related by friends of the two
sportsmen that Billy Cooper made close
friends with blackberry vines while going
through the woods. and fell. The incl
dent proved so amusing to George Doane
that while he was enjoying the sight the
vines tripped him.
But it's all in a lifetime commented
/ Cooper, and we caught share of
. | n he
SON.
A. S. Rabbit of the District survey or S
Office recently visited S. d. Carpenter. a
resident of the vicinity of Culpeper, Va,
and enjoyed sport on the fields with good
bird dogs to assist him.
Birds were plentiful said the gunner
when he returned and related the story
of his trip. but rabbits were scarce
The gunner killed ffty-eght quail and
five rabbits.
Lawrence W. White Of Norbcck, Mont
gomery county. Md, established an en-
viable record for rabbit hunting Rab.
bits were plentiful in Montgomery county
early in the season, it is stated, and il
was an easy matter to kill a bag Of them
That was before all the Washington
sportsmen went to the county to visit
friends and engage in the slaughter" q
friend of Whites remarked.
White, it is reported, killed seven rab
bits i'll ninety minutes, and without the
assistance of dogs.
Patrick lsiordan is well equipped fol
the opening of the bass season. large
tank in his cellar is stocked with smelt:
and mad TOMS his friends say. having
been kept from last season. and in tina
way the angler manages to have bal
when others are clamoring for it ane
unable to get it.
One day this week something wen
wrong with Riordan's pump. and tn,
bait was in danger of dying. A quicl
call sent to a plumbing establishment
brought pump doctor, and the bait wa:
saved.
Reports of herring having been caugh
in the lower Potomac several days age
! proved interesting to John w. Hurley.
"If they are in the lower river" thu
angler commented, lit will not be Ions
before they will be here.
'And with the herring" he added
| always come white perch.