Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-12

annual opening event of the CLUB. 1T Is
stated. and will. get Potomac stock ii
there are any to be had.
And put them up in a most appetiz-
| ing way" suggested the chief tusk.
The shad dinner will be given on the
! Virginia shore near Riverside. only a
short distance. from Mount Vernon, and
: it is expected that there will be an
! exceptionally large attendnce this year.
'Thirty-five cents for bunch OF
small-mouth bass. was the surprising
| statement made bv dealer in marine
products at the fish market one day last
| week b.
John Hurley heard the statement. ac-
cused the dealer of joking and passed
on.
Hold on there" shouted the dealer to
| the angler.
| THE genuine article he added. and
| Hurley was surprised at the sight of a
bunch of the gamesters.
| The fish had been caught i'll a net.
| possibly at the mouth of a creek some
distance below Alexandria. and the
dealer admitted it was. the first bunch
| of such fish he had seen on the market
| line.
Sportsmen are anxious to ascertain
just where the fish were. caught. 1t is
| thought possible that high water in one
of the creeks on the Virginia side of the
river was responsible for their presence
where nets were operated.
| Jack Shepley tells q story of the great
sport he enjoyed ten days ago. the day
following the warm rain. when angle
worms covered the sidewalks near the
parks and the roads in the country dis
tricts.
1T struck me that with so many
worms in evidence" said Shepley. there
must be something doing in the line of
fishing"
The sportsman was near Laurel, Md.
x1-hn he III fhn l,o
stated. and gathering a supply of the
bait he started for a fishing hole in the
Patuxent river nearby.
"And the fish were there, said the
angler Il landed forty-five large vel
low perch.
And" he added. there was some
sport catching them
@. D. Heltzel and Harry n. PAUL. who
two weeks ago made a, catch of eight
cen Mississippi catfish at Fletcher's, re-
turned there for a weekend outing.
and made an effort to duplicate their
good catch. Weather and water condi-
tions were as good as they were the
feeding SO we'll.
And We caught only ten fish," said
one Of the sportsmen.,
Both quality and quantity" re-
marked another angler, who saw the
fish when the men came ashore.
One of the fish weighed eight and
one-half pounds; another. five and one
half, and the others weighed from one
the river two days during the week, but
their catches were only nominal.
n. L. Pullianl. having recovered from
the drenching he received when he
went overheard from his boat. was on
the river several times during the past
week. Each time he made the effort,
he stated, he caught fish enough for
dinner.
Il only got two fish," he remarked
when he returned from a trip to
Fletchers Thursday afternoon.
And the fish were a little sluggish"
he added. probably because the water
was cold. There are Mississippi catfish
as big as a man in the river, and when
the water gets warmer some of them
will be caught"
Walter f. Schneider and Billy With
ers are getting their fishing parapher-
MALTA in condition for spring fishing.
And every day that the weather is
warm, said one OF the older sports
men. Billy Withers gets the fishing
fever.
The two sportsmen are about as en-
thusiasttc as any other local anglers.
their friends say, and while they par
ticipate in the sport early in the sea-
son. when the big white perch are run
ming, they prefer fishing for hardheads.
trout and bluefsh in salt water later
in the season.
1T was in June last year" said
Withers, that the big catches of
hardheads were made at Benedict, Rock
Point and other places. and it is when
such fish are taking bait that the sport
is worth while.
Mack Sparrough and William Wynn
koop were on he river for a weekend
outing.
And several times since the end of
the week" commented one of their
friends.
They did not experience exceptionally
good luck. they stated. although they
did about as wei! as others who were
on the river near them.
Thursday afternoon the two anglers
tried their luck near Hens and Chick
ems" and landed five fish. The largest
Of them weighed five pounds, one
weighed four pounds and the other
weighed only trif1e more than one
pound each.
John Souder has not given up the
sport Of catching yellow perch in Little
river.
He is on the job almost every day."
said Will T. Reynolds. "and every time
he made the effort he caught fish.
81 wish he'd catch some of the carp
that are destroying SO much spawn of
other fish," he added. land IL something
is not done to reduce the number of
carp I fear some of our game fish will
become as scarce as brook trout"