Evening star., 1918-06-22
ROD AND REEL.

wrong time" he added. "and prevent
ed full enjoyment Of the sport"
Fletcher landed the prize winner
caught . fish Weighing 1oA pounds.
but, unfortunately for him, he was
| not in the pool.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. G. Perry. Mr. and
had fine sport on a week end trip to
Rock Point J. J. O'Leary, assistant
United States attorney, and Mrs.
OLeary were there, but did not fish.
With others who were there for
: the week end were Mr.. and Mrs. E.
Remington and party. J. w Brawner,
j. A. Brawner and r. Mcmahon.
John w. Hurley did not have his
accustomed luck on a week end trip
! companions, but his efforts at catch
| ing chickens proved so successful
that the sportsmen had reason to
thank him when they responded to
the call of the dinner bell. Hurley's
| companions were DR.. A. J. Pistor.
Dominick Crovo,. Samuel George. w.
I. Dyer and F. B. Crovo.
Members Of the sextet were at the
resort over night, which enabled them
to make an early start to the fishing
| many fish remains an unsolved mys-
terry.
He hung as many hardheads as the
| Others" remarked Frank Crovo, but
| for some reason most of them left
| his line before reaching the boat
than they really wanted, however,
and Frank Crovo scored with a single
trout.
ing party on the Chesapeake bay one
night this week, declares he never
before witnessed the catching of so
great number of fish in a short
time. A. J. Sahdala. C. E. Heard and
Charlie Porter were other members
peake Beach on a late train and were
boated to the oyster Jumps off Red
House, where anchor was dropped.
The sportsmen had such splendid
luck that 1t did not become neces-
sary for them to make a single move
and when daybreak came they had
| an exceptionally big catch Of fish.
Wight fishing is great sport" COM
mented Sparrough.
A Missiaetppi catfish weighing 22h
pounds waa caught by Edward Rey-
nolds and shipped to Adolph Felix,
| e piscatorial sportsman at Bristol,
Va, . former resident Of this city.
The big fish was covered with wet
cloths and shipped to the Virginia
and strong enough to show fight.
Clear water above and below Aque-
duct bridge this week induced many
anglers to try. their luck for rock
fish: Good catches were made, Joe
Fletcher landing six rockfish one
| morning. Many Mississippi catfish
also have been caught In the deep
water this week
John souder had an exciting time
with a big water snake this week.
He had his turtle poles set in the
edge Of the marsh near Little river,
and when he found a big snake
where he had hoped to get turtle
he proceeded to get rid of It, The
snake put up fight. however. and.
after a struggle that lasted thirty
minutes. souder got rid of It,
l. H. Rowland and J. p. Rowzee
were at Solomons Island Wednesday.
They motored to the resort Tuesday
night. fished early In the morning
and were home before 8 o'clock. They
| made the usual large catch of hard
heads.
William Mitchell spent the week
END at Rock Point. He brought home
a string OF hardheads and trout.
An all-nisht fishing party at
Chesapeake Beach was composed Of
William ze1l, George Zell, Charlie
Porter. Joseph Hammond, Al Buechel-
er and Edward Jameson. They landed
q long string of hardheads and a
dozen spots.
g.. j. Held and A. H. Sahdala this
week participated in their first ef-
sar.r, sorts at t,,,ea catching rockfish In the
were on the river two nights and
landed two fish. The larger of them
weighed ten pounds. while the
smaller tipped the scales at eight
pounds Small eels were used for
bait, and the f1sh were caught while
the anglers were trolling. Held saws
he thinks some twenty-fiye- FOUNDERS
ought to be caught in the Severn
during the next week or two