Evening star., 1916-07-29

Fishing in the vicinity of Washing
ton during the past week has not been
good The heavy rains up in the noun
tains made the water very muddy ana
little, If any. fishing was done be-
tween Washington and Harpers Ferry.
In fact, it was stated that not much
| fishing was being done at the latter
point. AS soon as the river clears,
however, a number of the anglers de-
| clare they will try for the fish, as they
say there should be good biting.
AS the fishing hereabouts has been
poor, A. NJ. Agelasto of 1846 U street,
in a communication to The Star, sug-
gests a trip to Lake Smith. Va. near
Norfolk, where, he declares, there is
excellent bass fishing. Mr. Agelasto
he and friend landed several large
strings. Two large-mouth bass, weigh
ing IA and IN pounds each. were
| caught, while on one occasion they
got thirteen bass, weighing hfty-two
| pounds, or an average of four pounds
each.
Mr.. Agelasto received a letter from
S. J. Williams of 1903 Moran avenue,
Norfolk, Va, who. he states. will be
glad to furnish information to anglers
as to where fish can be caught near
there. In the letter the writer stated
he is now getting some nice gray
trout (weakfish). One day last week
he landed a thirty-three pounder, and
says they will be biting in earnest from
now on Bass, he declared, are also
striking nicely late in the afternoon
and about dark. He caught twenty
| two one afternoon, one weighing seven
and three-quarters pounds.
! E. P Hazelton and Mrs. Hazelton were
at Rock Point Sunday and caught a
good string of Norfolk spots and trout.
Maryland, Jim McClintic of Okla
homa and Harry L. Candy of South
| Dakota spent Sunday afternoon at
Rock Point. but did not get a good
| tide. They expect to make a similar
| trip TOMORROW.
! Judge Alexander Mullowny of the
Police Court is spending part Of his
vacation in Pennsylvania. In let
| ter to a friend here he stated he has
caught a number Of bass, getting six
! teen one day. He said, however, that
| bait is scarce and has to be brought
/ from New York.
A good string of trout, rock, spots
and perch was caught at Rock Point
| Saturday night and Sunday by a party
of Washingtonfans, who braved the
| heavy rainstorm which was passing
over the city and went to the resort
wright. Carroll Hammer, Walter E.
| Schneider and Billy Withers.
Bernard NJ. Bridget of Parker, Bridget
& Co. and William C. Taylor, deputy
| register of wills. have returned from
an outing of two weeks at Wacha-
preague. Va. Yes. they heard of the
sharks in Wachapreague bay and in
the Atlantic nearby. and they caught
some, too, but not the "man-eating"
| size. They corralled three small
| hammer-headed sharks and three blue
nose sharks.
I Other features of the catch were
fifty y-seven kingfish. forty-f1ve large sea
trout and a number of croakers and
hogf1sh. OF course, the biggest fish Of
the catch" got away.
That cockroaches are good bait for
catfish was demonstrated recently by
Archie Lightfoot and w. l. Reeves
members of No 2 truck company of the
! District fire department
/ Armed with a can of the big black
reaches and rods. lines and hooks, the
two firemen went to Feeder Lock. on
| the Chesapeake and Ohio canal They
| fished in the canal and had hardly
| thrown their lines into the water be-
fore each had hooked catfish. This
was kept up for some time as the two
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towpath down to the Aqueduct bridge
AS the fish were pulled ashore they
| were left on the embankment and later,
! Lightfoot and Reeves retraced their
1 steps and strung the fish. Several of the
fish weighed about three pounds each,
I although most of them were small.
The next time Lightfoot goes fishing
he declared he will not wear his best
uniform trousers. but will don some
| thing more substantial. Just as they
had about completed their days sport,
| Lightfoot in STOPPING over caused quite
a rent In the seat of his trousers. The
A., rent was Of such dimensions that he
| was forced to secrete himself In some
| bushes. becaue of the preence of a
j number of young lady campers nearby
| while Reeves went to Georgetown and
| secured him another pair.
Capt. Charles Peck, in command of
the first police precinct, is at Colonial
Beach with his family. The outing at
the beach Is looked forward to each
| year by the officer, who inludges daily
in fishing. Reports received by his
friends here indicate that he is having
some good luck with the members of
| the hnny tribe.
Because of strong northeast winds
which have been blowing across the
lower Potomac, fishing has not been
very good, according to reports re-
ceived here. but for the past week the
change of the wind some good catches
have been made.
J. d. McGrath, president of the Park
View Citizens Association. with Fred,
Sam and Henry Lewis, have returned
from weeks outing at Lodge Land
ing. va The anglers fished for the
first four days of last week with little
success because of the wind. although
they did get some good-sized fish. On
Friday. however. there was south
wind, and with-it came the fish. The
members Of the party caught about a
bushel of large trout, hardheads, spots
and perch. The following day they
made an even larger catch, getting
about a bushel and a half of fish, among
which were many large rock.
| Mr.. McGrath told of seeing a large
fish which members of the party be-
lieved was a shark. For twenty min
utes. he stated. the big fish. which ap-
peared to be about five feet in length,
swan about near the landing. and