Evening star., 1915-07-17

The new yacht Katie Did is to be
christened tomorrow with g. dinner party
| at the New Willard Hotel at Colonial
Beach. The yacht is 60 feet long by "a
| feet wide and carries as passengers. The
christening party is to leave the Beach
at 4:30 o'clock and go to Rock Point
| sixteen miles down the river. and re-
| turn later for the dinner.
William Reed landed thirty-one-
pound rockfish last Sunday morning
while fishing about four miles below Co.
| lonial Beach With the assistance OF
his wife he landed the big fish. and after
| returning to the Beach took it to the
/! New willard Hotel in an automobile
| where friends assisted in eating it.
DIR. Mcdonald and Dr. Rozzelle. with
| Miss B. Broome. enjoyed some good FISH
ed from the excursion pier, and were
| well rewarded for their efforts.
Ringgold Hart and Lew NJ. Thayer,
equipped with fine lot OF nshng para
phernalia and a bucket of lively madtoms
| motored to Seneca Tuesday afternoon
reaching there in time to enjoy good
country supper and witness a heavy
thunderstorm
| ..The supper was fine and the lightning
! flashes beautiful" said one of the anglers
| ..b,1t what the storm did to the river was
! a shame.
| Wednesday morning the stream was the
| color of the red clay in that section The
| two anglers crossed to the Virginia SIDE
of the stream, found a streak of clear
water and Hart landed two bass. Thayer
caught one bass in the canal and their
| trip was suddenly ended.
Charles E. West, Bruce S. Branson, j
j. Mccarthy, H. 3. West and Henry G.
| Bergling, members of the Anglers Club,
| motored to Rock Point Tuesday morning
and spent an enjoyable day on the Wi
| comico.
I've caught all the perch we wanted.
| said Branson, "some being small, some
large and few larger fish,
Henry Bergling led his companions in
catching rockfish, while Charles f. West
and j. J. Mccarthy were the only mem
bers of the party who caught trout.
| Frank Monroe, desk sergeant at the har-
Dor precinct, where it is possible for him
to do fishing from his desk, is spending
an enjoyable outing at Chaptico on the
| Wicomico.
There is splendid sport down here the
| angler wrote home II was out with Capt
Robert Dean, cherry grower and fisher
man, and saw him land twenty-five fish
| in as many minutes
James Lyons, Stephen Graves. J. S
Russell, Frank Monroe and Capt. Dean
| made several good catches of spots, hard
| heads, rockfish, trout and perch.
! Samuel ]. Long and Capt. Long, his
father, spent a pleasant outing at Point
| of Rocks and succeeded in landing thirty
bass in one day, the largest one weighing
| three and a half pounds. They caught
two fish that weighed two and halt
j pounds each and the others ranged from
one to one and half pounds.
| Bait is scarce here was the message
received from Long by w. p Bowie, land
one coming here should bring his madtoms
with him. Many fish are being caught
with pork rind. spoon and flies"
| There are plenty small-mouth bass in
the canal.' said Will Reynolds, "and
j often when the river is muddy the water
in the canal is clear"
Frank Hutton, fishing in the canal near
34th street early this week, landed three
fairly good size bass. He had them on a
string that he tied to the top of the wall.
Rats are more plentiful than fish," said
| Reynolds, land the rodents cut the string
and carried away his fish, and now Hut
ton would like to start a crusade to ex-
| terminate them"