Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-08

Charles Bird were among the fishermen
who visited Benedict Tuesday. The trio
| arrived at the place about o'clock In
the morning and fished until oclock
| in the afternoon. They returned heme
with sixteen hardheads, several cells
and a dozen spots.
William J. Eynon took his family to
Benedict for the Fourth of July and did
some fishing. The party landed several
! hardheads, but cells constituted the
| larger part of their catch.
Bruce Branson and family also were
at Benedict for the Fourth. They land
ed a good string of fish and cells.
| Among those who fshed at Rock
! Point Sunday and over the Fourth were
I Fred Horton. w. H. Peter, J. J. Bar
| tram and c. F.. Shatluck. All of them
| had good luck.
| Many large perch rock and hard
heads We're landed by Fred E. Wood
ward, William Ramsey DIR. E. H. Silver
George n. Bell and wife. J. E. Paul and
wife E. T. Hazleton and wife, B. L.
! Wissman and wife, Mrs. Cooper. Repre-
Howard and sister, Charles F. Brown. C.
F. Brown. Miss Nellie Atherton and
| Miss f. Elwood, who were also at Rock
| Point for the Fourth.
Harry Anderson and Charlie Porter
! on holiday outing at lock 81, about
| five miles above, Great Falls landed
two large Mississippi catfish.
And the singular part of the catch, 8
said James e. Armstrong. was that
| they caught them on madtoms"
/ Anderson, Porter, Armstrong and
! Hugh A. Kane were members of the
| party. They had been in the habit of
going to salt water because of the
muddy condition of the water up the
| river, and Tuesday morning they con-
Guided to try their luck In the muddy
water
I'm tired of saltwater fishing" said
Kane to his companions when a trip to
| the lower river was suggested
Il haven't seen a black bass for so
| long time" he added. that 1 want to
| be convinced that there are some of
| them left in the river"
Five small bass were caught by mem
| bers of the party.
H. W. Byers has had his first outing
F.. of the season at Plum Point, not far
| from the Boy Scouts camp, and was so
| delighted with his catch of fifteen rock
fish that he arranged another weekend
| trip there.
Plum Point is place where it is
possible to fish night and day the an
| gler remarked. The sport of fishing
| for rockish usually is more ENJOYABLE
ht HlSHt imam during the day, and the
| FISH are caught from the long steam
! boat pier
The bay at that point" he added, sis
fairly alive with rockfish"
Byers largest fish weighted fourteen
pounds. The fish were caught with
| bloodworms and soft crabs. Large
! spots, hardheads and perch are plenti-
! full.
! DR. William f. whitson did not meet
/ with much success on Fourth of July
| But I did have fine automobile
| trip, he stated.
Leaving here before daybreak the en-
! thusiastic angler went to Leonardo own
with the itention of INDUCING in the
/ sport The outlook was not favora bl G.
: however. and he motored to Piney
| Point.
/ Joining a party of a dozen or more
other Waltonites the doctor went or
! the Potomac and st. Marys river, fished
oyster beds, sand and gravel bottoms
but was able to get only a few small
| fish.
! Il suppose, it was an off day with
! the fish, he said.
| Neil Mckinney and Baxter Mckinney
| spent their holiday on visit ITO reIa-
tives and a bass fishing trip to Catoc-
TN creek Point of Rocks, where they
| found it necessary to engage in the
! sport on the creek on account of the
muddy condition of the river.
! No great preparations were made for
| the trip. The brothers did not get in
a supply of scale bait and madtoms
I and have the trouble nursing them all
] the way to the mountain section, but
/ contented themselves with bucket of
, branch minnows
| Tho stream is literally filled with
! bass said one of the brothers, telling
| of a catch of ten fish.
THE bass were not large he added
| weighing from one to one and one
| half pounds each
Patrick Riordan; is one of many
Washington sportsmen who believe
that anglers should cut trotlnes when
they find them in the river,
I'm the first place" he said. lit is
against the law to use such lines in the
nearby states. and 1t is a great nui-
sance for a sportsman to get his line
mixed up with one of them and prob
ably lose a good fish.
The enthusiastic sportsman was on
the river at "a nearby point not long
"a go. he said. and something in the river
gave him much annoyance. He thought
he had hooked the branch Of tree. he
stated. and was about to break his line
| loose. when his boatman took a hand in
the affair.
And pulled up Il trotline." said the
angler, but the owner of it had been
troubled with anglers cutting his line
g.
I'll be prepared for a wire line in the
future"
Ernest Mudd has become full
Gedgcd disciple of Walton. He visited
Benedict, tried rod and reel fishing for
the first time and experienced such
splendid luck that he determined to
. spend much of his spare time on the
river in the future. Members of his
party on the holiday outing were Mrs.
Mudd Mr.. and Mrs. William Eccard,
Henry Rupp, Miss Peggy Rosa, Err
skine Rupp and Miss katherine Rosa
There were not many sportsmen at
Benedict for the holiday season, the
anglers stated. and no difficulty was ex-
perienced in the matter of getting
on the Patuxent river about o'clock
and the boatman quickly located spot
where fish were feeding.
we only caught forty hardheadS"
said Eccard expressing disappointment
because they had not duplicated "A big
catch made on a prior trip.
A dozen perch. a few cells and several
spots made UP the catch.
n L. Pulliam has returned from
disappointing trip to Annapolis. He
went there because of favorable re-
ports he received. and he stated he is
satisfied that some big rockfish were
caught there.
Il hung "A horse" he said, but it
outdistanced me and got away"
The big FISH, he said, took his hook
off the line.
Detective Frank Baur and Mrs Baur
spent the Fourth at Ocean View Va