Evening star., 1915-06-26

4 batting with soft crabs and blood
I worms. and occa asionally a large rock
4 fish would come along and take their
| bait. When the time for lifting anchor
| arrived the quartet had d count OF
/ more than eighty fish
/ There We're twenty-five rockhsh on
| the string" said Wood, the largest of
them weighing about six pounds: many
/ white perch, some large ana some
| SMALL and few croakers.
The anglers did their fishing from a
| motor boat
Robert Mcleod, Frank Ginechesi,
| David A. Hart. a. S. j. Atkinson and
| j. w. Downing last Sunday morning
reached Rock Point by circuitous
| route.
| But 1t was a case of better late than
! never" one OF the anglers remarked,
| after the party had landed fish enough
| to make the trip interesting.
| Capt. Will Simms took the five fisher
men on the river in his launch. with a
| supply of peeler bait. They went out
| far enough to get glimpse of Co
! lonial Beach across the Potomac, and
| far enough to locate the fish.
! white perch We're PLENTIFUL, said
| Hart. and there were croakers enough
| to increase interest in tire sport.
The anglers returned with long
! string of fish.
|
One barrel of fish was the catch made
at Benedict Saturday afternoon and
| Sunday by four anglers. The success
| full sportsmen were John F. Murrell.
i William Beahnl. A. B. Lank and Louis
| Ludwig. Saturday afternoon the quar-
| tet took advantage of the half-holiday
| and motored to the resort on the
| Patuxent river. arriving there in time
/ to reach the fishing grounds by $3.50
! o'clock.
There's no question about the mum.
| Der of fish to be caught at Benedict"
| said Murrell It's only question of
/ going there, batting the hook and maxi
| ing the effort
| Saturday afternoons sport meant the
| landing of a half a barrel of fish, most
| ly large hardheads, although few
perch and number of eels were
| caught. Toads, the bane of fishermen,
We're in evidence, as usual.
! Sunday morning the anglers went on
/ the river and duplicated their catch OF
the day before. and when they had
landed fish enough for themselves and
| friends, they gave up the sport.
Ringgold Hart and Charlie Porter
| We're guests of Lew NJ. Thayer on a
fishing trip to Benedict Thursday morn
ing. Starting at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing, the trio were able to reach Behe-
diet by o'clock. and Capt. Shorter was
Oh hand to greet them.
| Eardheads were as plentiful as they
We're the ,pervious week. when Kari
John W. Hurley and Martin Schneider
| made the first big catch of the season,
Capt. Shorter said, and it was but I;
few minutes before Hart had landed a
| trout.
Charlie Porter caught one trout and
| Thayer managed to get two. Eels were
plentiful, Thayer and Porter landing a
number of them. Hart made it plain
that he did not want his lines tangled
by 'roundfsh.' as he termed them and
he caught only one eel.
Capt. Shorter told the sportsmen that
| trout fishing would be good about the
middle of July and that rockfsh would
come later. The three anglers landed
about six dozen large hardaead, four
trout and the eeis.
| And a few toads." said Thayer.
DR.. J. H. Ladd's bungalow above Great
| Falls. on the Virginia side of the river.
where many expert bass fishermen were
entertained. was burned to the ground
not long ago. and until it is rebuilt the
doctor and his friends will suffer great
inconvenience.
DR.. Ladd was at the bun galow for a
short outing. and, it is reported. was
seated on the lawn in front of the
dwelling, waiting for ham he had left
something burning attracted his atten-
tion to the bungalow and he was as
tonished to see it was ablaze.
Only a few feet away was the Poto-
useless was the stream, however, when
he had no means of conveying the wa
ter to the bungalow to extinguish the
fire, and the structure was quickly
consumed.
Fitzhugh Tayloe. Matthew Rudden
and Edward Ridseway composed a fish
ing. party at Little Hunting creek the
| early part OF the week. They knew the
water was notin the best of condition.
but even if they could catch no fish.
| Tayloe suggested. they would enjoy
the outing.
"And so they went" said Ward Saw
age, and when they returned they had
a string of fish.
about their size he said. in stage
| whisper
Larger fish will be caught when the
| water clears. it is believed, and good
sport is anticipate ted.
IF we can't get any big fish, Rud-
den said, we can get snappers and
make soup
Mr.. and Mrs. E. p. Hazleton and Mr..
! and Mrs. w E. Miller were among the
week END outing parties at Rock Point.
| 1t was late in the day when they got
| started. and it was not until after the
early morning fishermen had made good
ca tches that they reached the river to
| try their luck. They landed Il long
| string of perch.
i William White, who holds this
springs record for the largest rock
fish, a fish that weighed eighteen
pounds, braved the muddy water al
4 F1etcher's Thursday AFTERNOON and
tried his luck. He really did not be-
lieve he would get strike, he said
, and was surprised when he landed .
rockfish weighing two pounds. The
only other fish he caught was a one
pound catfish.
Just before the water became muddy
| there were many shad and herring il
! evidence. and their presence in the
river suggested to anglers that rock
fish would be plentiful:
But just when we thought we were
| going to have sport" said Mack Spar
I rough, the rain came and broke Us
up
Shad were plentiful in the river be
| tween Cham and Aqueduct bridges, il
is stated, and also at Great Falls. Man,
of them were dipped from the river
| but the high water drove them bach
| before many dippers got supplies TO,
| the winter.