The Washington herald., 1917-08-05
Trolling the Streams
With Local Fishermen
BY SKIPPER" PERKINS.

Young. a boatman of Colonial Beach,
hooked up along side of buoy No. a,
at the Beach, and what they did to
the hard-head trout and perch In q
shame to tell. Imagine a boatload of
go fish. all caught by q quartet of
men who had fine time rowing back
with their loot, but 1t was q grand
ana glorious feeling to be a real Ash
erman once more. Just ask 'em.
James c. keliher. FIRST deputy chief
OF the fire department, does not care
hang for the high cost OF living.
His family are staying at North
Beach. Promptly every morning
keliher and his son crawl out Of
bed and make for the water. They
don't go there to swim, but they
, bring back nice bunch of fish and
said fsh are put on Mr.. Keliher's
table for breakfast or dinner depend
ing on how hungry they are and
there you are or course, they eat
something else besides FISH, but they
eat better fish than most Of us.
Some fishermen do not like the boil
ing hot sun to fish in. John F. MUIR
rell and A. F. Lank motored down
to Benedict and after IT had cooled
OF little at night they went fish
mig. The fish seemed to appreciate
It too and they did well on the hook.
The two caught a raft OF hardheads,
trout and oodles of perch.
On Tuesday afternoon. just when
the sun was trying to shy up the
historic old Potomac, Harry Grimm
and Luther Macdonald rowed over
to the Little River and were so tired
out with the hot pushing across they
dropped anchor and threw their lines
overheard just where they got too
tired to row. And just because no
one can explain fisherman's luck,
these boys caught nearly 200 perch,
f1ye eels and seven large catfish. And
just two weeks ago these boys gave
up fishing in disgust because they
hadn't caught anything worth while
all summer.
and George F1tzhugh liked the looks
of the wather at Great Falls and had
a fine time struggling with catfish all
Wednesday afternoon, another. hot
day when nothing else but catfish had
the nerve to be abroad. They brought
twenty-five good size fish. besides
throwing away half a dozen eels and
paying no attention to perch. Fitx-
hugh says there are plenty of rabbits
up there.
Thursday morning when II looked
like rain but didn't william Dali, Joe
Higgins and Trip Stewart all went
down by the Highway Bridge and
fished for three hours without q strike.
After this happened Trip got up and
left and the other two lit their pipes
and the fish began to bite. Just seven
teen large perch. five rock. one eel.
three different kinds OF tobacco boxes,
four cats, one poison cat and another
eel. Then they went home.
There has been a marked improve
ment in the fishing game around
Rock Point. Solomons Island. Occo-
guam and other places not freQuented
too much like spots within a mile or
two of the city. A large number of
Baltimore boys have been fishing In
this neighborhood all week, and no
one knows the cause Of II. There has
been no report Of Baltimore waters
being on the bum, but we suppose
fisherman like all other human beings
like change once in a while. but
must have needed il very bad else
how could they swap their fishing
grounds for ours.
So IL you want to sneak church to-
day get your outfit and go to It. II
you don't catch the fish don't blame
the fish.