The Washington herald., 1917-08-19
BIGGEST CATFISH
TO DATE DRAGGED in
Frank Howard Lands 32-Pounder
in Old Canal at Both Street.
This is fishing weather and the
fish are coming fast.

nsn are coming fast.
When We say fish" we mean cat
|, fish too just as we'll as, other finnies.
Wednesday afternoon of this week.
Frank Howard had the nerve to pull
thirty-two pounds of catfish all in
one piece from the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal at Soth street.
This is the biggest marine feline
ever caught in these diggings. You
ought to have seen its whiskers No
fancy or expensive tackle was used;
just the regular old time handline
did the work. Bluefsh was used
for bait. We take of our Chapeau
to Mr.. Howard. How he got Il
home we don't know, but It would
be amusing to watch a man skin
an animal that large.
On top Of this Joe Hanly went up
! to Chain Bridge Thursday morning
ana brought forty pounds Of cat
hsh back-four fish in all. II pounds
D. and two ten-pound cats. Not
SO bad for an amatuer. They will
catch catfish, won't they.
Charlie Porter and Joe Goldsmith
tried their luck at Chesapeake
Beach and just made the trout look
sick. They did very well with other
hsh too. considering the bum luck
that some fisherman have had there
all summer. They rowed out on the
bay and patiently fished until they
had quite big string.
Mack Sparrough, DR.. Walter Sill
imam, Bernie Harding and Charlie
simmons went to Rock Point We'd
nesday and came back with 100 or
| more fish. Rock Point has doomed
all of a sudden as far as fishing Is
concerned. Trout bit very well.
sixty being caught by this quartet
OF natural-born fishermen.
At Great Falls, the cats have
Deen having picnic. Almost
everybody. even the novices, had
good luck with them there. There
is hardly a day in the week when
someone didn't catch a fish larger
then any caught the day before.
John C. Yost, William A. 1yncb ana
w. II. Yost visited Annapolis last
week and were just making a larps
haul Of trout when a storm GAME m
and spoiled the party. But as n was
they caught some large specimens ana
were well repaid for their strip.
Bass fishing has not been I'D TO the
mark all summer. At Great Falls &
J. Dyer and his father tramped round
Thursday until they found a soft spot
and then they waded into the has,
They caught IL good-looking fish, but
were bothered by the catfish and the
eels.
The hardheads have Travelled I'D
! along Chesapeake Beach lately and
quite a number of them have been
caught. They are not a sporty fish
because you can catch them when you
can't even catch crockers or any
thing else.
Perry Miller threw his line over
board Wednesday and although he did
not even see trout. he played havoc
with the spots. He and James Miller,
of Pittsburgh. rowed around over the
| oyster beds and failed to see that fine
run Of trout the local prophets said
were running.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas D. George.
Miss Ethel league, James Redman
and Harry Arminger were at Rock
Point Tuesday and after a few hours
fishing bagged 243 fish and only one
toad in the bunch and Thomas George
had the nerve to catch that one.
Elmer Jones and Mike Foley rowed
over the Little River Thursday and
all day they fished and all they
caught were four cats, eighty-six
nd hnxAu an SRId
about fifty-six pounds OF fish. The
water or something was not right and
they had plenty Of bait. There used
to be some bass floating around over
there but they must have all disap-
peared.
There have been more fishermen
out this week and more fish caught
than any week this summer. Some
of the fish were not large but what
they did catch were better than meme
at all.