Evening star., 1914-08-01

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THE excellent fishing grounds of
North Chesapeake Beach are neglected
by Washington anglers" said 7. c. Tay-
lor, summer resident of the bay resort.
| who has made several interesting catches
there this season.
The average fisherman who visits the
beach. he said. tries his luck near the
shore and is disappointed because he
catches only small fish, but fishing from
the shore. he thinks. Is not q fair test.
| THE big fish are found in the deeper
water some distance from the Shore" he
said, '.and 1t is necessary to go in boat
to make successful catch"
Last Sunday Mr.. Taylor went about a
| and John Lupton. anchored on the oyster
beds and made good catch Of trout.
| croakers and spots. The largest Of the
trout he said, weighed nearly four
pounds.
Bait for trout is an easy matter" he
| said. "All that is necessary Is to catch
| a few spots large or small, and cut them
into pieces large enough to attract the
| fish.
And" he added. 'fts an easy matter
| to catch spots"
These are dog days." said John w.
| Hurley when he returned from a week.
end trip to Weverton and Harpers Ferry
with bass enough to count a bakers
dozen And there is not much sport In
| landing the bass during such a period"
1t was late Saturday afternoon when
| the veteran angler reached Weverton and
| started from shore with George w. Leo
pold. They went to the big holes and
tried their best to get few fish, but the
,I1Ir l~
| clared Hurle'- that 1t was difficult mat
| ter to get the madtoms through them.
And then. too," he added, ''the bass
were swapping the gnats.'
| were caught. At s o'clock Sunday morn
ing the anglers were on the river. not
having waited for breakfast, and it was
not until after l o'clock that either got a
strike
And by night" he said, I'VE had ten
fish,
There was not the sport in catching
them that there is when the weather ks
cooler: said the angler. and he said he
| thought it would be well to let them
alone until conditions improve.
Albert Rabbit, Mark Hale and Arthur
Gleason have been on the river almost
every Sunday since the first run Of fish
| in the spring, but last Sundays trip was
one of their most interesting ones this
! season.
The trio reached Great Falls early in
the morning and were there to catch any
| kind of fish that came along.
And along they came, and we caught
| them as they came" remarked Gleason.
| Marx Hale felt something tugging at
his line and thought it was something
| not far short of a whale. and the amount
| of time consumed in landing 1t, he stated,
made him think he had more than one
| fish. inally he landed the fish and
| found it was attached to some other
'Tt was big Mississippi catfish" he
| said
Robbitt, tiring of pulling in big cat
| fish, rigged his line with pork rind bait
| and caught two-and-one-half-pou
small-mouth bass. nearby fisherman
| hooked a large rockflsh and suffered a
| broken rod and loss Of part Of his line.
| Austin Savage was one Of the many
anglers on the pier at Chesapeake Beach
! Sunday. Austin missed the early train
and also missed the early morning fisher
| men.
But" he said. 'it was a satisfaction
to stand on tho pier, enjoy the cool breeze
from the salt water and watch the boys
| at distance
'I made one mistake, however" he
| said. IT left there before the fishermen
! landed with their strings of trout and
| spots. but had some of them for break
| fast Monday morning just the same"
| In the afternoon Austin went to the
| stream that emp ties into the bay near the
resort and tried his luck for eels or
| ''roundfish,' as Ringgold Hart and
| Charlie Porter call them, and had great
| sport.
| There are not many anglers who en-
| joy catching eels,'' said the successful
| sportsmen, but that's because they
| have never tried the game. Try It one
| time and they'll try 1t again.
| Alfred Selinger and Walter Koons. who
made a record catch at Chesapeake
Beach last year. were able to display
| long string Of attractive fish to their
| friends when they came ashore at Chesa-
peake Beach last Sunday.
"It takes the early bird to catch the
worm," remarked friend Of the pair
| of anglers, knowing that they were on
the river shortly after daybreak: ;, ,,.
| Selinger, land went some distance out
| into the bay from the old pier.
| "You know" he added, ''it is necessary
| to go out little distance to get the big
| fish this early in the season. Later the
tailors come close enough in to be caught
| from the pier
The two anglers caught a string Of
| about fifty large trout and spots.
Frank Farenkamp is one of the mer-
| chants at Chesapeake who are enthusiast
| tic fishermen, and last Sunday morning
| he was on the job early enough to pro-
| wac HSI eIlOu6u Aol a A'oAaAy oAoe&rAAeos
| and dinner.
| ..And when you simply transfer fish
| from the water to the frying pan" said
| the angler, you have something that ap-
| peals to any appetite"
Farenkamp said he felt like enjoying
| a breakfast of Norfolk spots. hsh that
| is in such great demand in Norfolk. and
| those at Chesapeake Beach. he sug-
gested, probably passed Norfolk on their
! way up from the south.
And caught twenty-five big ones.
| he said, "and few large trout"
| TT was a hard luck trip that We had
| to Great Falls Saturday afternoon and
| sunday" was what Ringgold Hart said
| of trip in which he and Charlie Por-
ter participated.
| Usually, it is stated. the two sports
men enjoy splendid sport on the river
and return with long strings OF bass
about as big as any other hshermen
get. Their last trip was an "on one"
they admit, but they are going to try
| it soon again.
Saturday afternoon they were salts
| fed to do their fishing near Trammelrs,
and were successful enough to land two
| large bass, enough for supper. and they
enjoyed them very much, they stated.
Early Sunday morning the anglers were
off in the direction of Betty Hughes
Falls. They reached there long before
| noon and returned long before time for
supper. explaining they could have no
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