Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-27
ROD AND GUN.

| E. w. Boyle delights in telling his
friends of past catches and of antici-
pations for the future.
1--WE hear SO much about big catches
being made" he remarked to party
of angler friends, but we see nothing
of the fish. But with me it's different.
I've got the goods. I've got a key of
fish sailed away and eat them once a
week"
'The 90 cents a key variety?" queried
Harry Evans.
NO" answered Boyle. nor the 81
variety. Fish of the quality of mine
are not to be bought"
Boyle said he made the best catches
at Rock Point the past season, remain
ing there five days on one trip and
sailing key of fish. Next season he
expects to put up much larger guam
tity of fish.
Wild ducks, geese and rabbits will be
out of sea son after next Wednesday,
January 81, and there will be practi-
cally no cunning in this section after
that time. The season for quail closed
in Maryland before January 1, while in
Virginia the law permits the shooting
of the birds throughout this month.
Ducks and geese have been plentiful
and cheap this season." remarked one
of the enthusiastic sportsmen, land the
number of them offered for sale about
the streets suggested the probability
of pothunters having been at work"
Thousands of the ducks, said the
sportsman, were too poor for any use,
and it was a shame to kill them. Be
cause they were so thin. he suggested,
dealers disposed of them to be sold
about the streets for almost any price
II hope the day will come" he con-
cluded, when the season for quail will
be shortened and when the laws relat-
ing to bag limits will be strictly en-
forced
Several members of Glebe Club and
their friends last Sunday participated
in a pleasant outing at the home OF
the club on the Patuxent river. Some OF
them went to the club Saturday night
and others motored there Sunday morn
ing.
There was plenty of ice in the river,
remarked one of the party, land the
only thing in the shape of fish we saw
resulted from the efforts of George Nc
Kenzie, the faithful boatman."
George managed to make one haul
in spite of the ice in the river. and land
ed a number of large yellow perch and
pike, one catfish and one large bass
The fish proved very acceptable.
Club members and guests enjoyed a
country dinner and discussed the fish
ing prospects for the approaching sea-
son. Among those who participated in
the outing We're Elmer Schroth, Harry
Luckett, William Keane. George
SCnTOtn, Sndl 1oWeTS, SHdTicS
William DAILY. John Sturgess. Howard
Brooke. Lloyd Brooke. jr., and Jacob
Richards.
Joe Sanborn, John Sieber and Claud
WHITAKER braved the weather condi-
lions on a week end outing on the upper
river. They were anxious to get a
glimpse of the canal along log-wall
level, while the water was drawn from
that waterway, said Sieber. and Incl
dentally to determine if it were posi-
Bile to catch fish angling through a hole
in the ice.
Sanborn took along a supply of live
bait. A small hole was cut in the ice
and through the opening the anglers
dropped their bait. Three strikes and
one fish was Sanborn's experience, the
fish he landed being a. large crappie
which forms part of Ward Savage's col
lection.
'One of the other fish that took his
bait must have been a big one" said
Sieber, for it put up a terrible fight
and ruined a great big smelt.'