Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-06
ROD AND GUN

this section, and no longer experiences
, the troublesome mishaps."
| Capt. Isaac D Porter captured the
prize offered for the largest fish caught
on the ''fishermen's frolic' at Chesa-
| peake Beach the last week end. The
| fish that won him the rod and reel was
| a trout that weighed more than two
| pounds, and was one of 112 fish caught
| by the several persons in the boat.
| Al Buch1er, another of Washington S
enthusiastic piscatorial sportsmen, car
| ried off the prize for the greatest num-
ber. of fish measuring more than seven
| inches in length. His catch totaled
/ three dozen trout.
| The S. gold piece offered the boatman
whose craft landed the largest number
/. of fish was won by Noah Hazard Noah
| made the prediction that he would boat
the successful anglers. saying he knew
the best place to find the fish fielding.
| Pink" Bowie was congratulated upon
the successful outing.
| Kennedy F. Ray, his son. Everett Ray,
and Harley Hise were week end guests
! Of Charles r. Holman and John y. Clin-
gan at Aqua creek. Owing to the high
| wind, it is stated, the anglers did not
have a fair opportunity to make a
! Killing and it was necessary for
them to leave the bass grounds early in
the day and try their luck for yellow
| perch.
! In spite'of the unfavorable conditions
| Clingan managed to land two bass.
| while his guests caught a string of
perch and few cells. Holman did the
| honors in the bungalow.
Some of the best fishing that has been
experienced by local sportsmen the past
| two weeks was near Shepherd landing. al
most opposite Alexandria on the Dis
| trict side of the river.
/ Norman Boyer early this week was on
| the river near thev landing. He was
equipped with a supply of bloodworms.
| he said, and he quickly discovered he
had the proper bait.
/ The sportsman was delighted at be-
; ing able to land two three-pound rock
fish. and was about to give up the sport
when he thought it might be case of
| luck in odd numbers. but the third fish
was so large that it broke his steel rod
in several places
Sportsmen who went to Rock Point
| for the week end encountered such high
lwind that fishing had to be confined to
| Neal creek. where they were protected
from weather conditions.
| ut was the fourth week end that
wind interfered with the sport" COM
i mented one of the disappointed ones,
land we just had to be satisfied with
perch fishing in the creek
A S Zell, W. w. Baldwin and Allan
| Schwartz were among those who tried
their luck in the creek and landed a
eral rockfIsh.
Sidney Atlas and n. L. Pulliam this
week learned of a new artificial bait
that proved effective fishing from the
sea wall for large mouth bass.
1T was the easiest thing in the world
to catch them" said one of the sports
men. telling of a trip to the wall at
night.
Both sportsnen landed bass several
nights during the week.
| AL Reinberg has returned from his
annual outing the houseboat of the
Sharp Shinn Fishing Club at Catoctin,
Md 1t is an ideal place for the sport.
he said, and there are plenty small
mouth bass in the river this fall
! THE water was muddy for SO long a
period" he said. that the fish seem
more than anxious to get hold of a
lively madtom or sme1t.'
Reinberg's largest bass weighed three