Evening star., 1918-06-08
ROD AND REEL.

Bernard NJ. Bridget. Charles F. Sud
warth, Henry T. Offterdinger, William
Clark Taylor and Charles Rossiter
spent pleasant week end at Wacha-
preague, Va, on the east coast of the
Old Dominion.
Incidentally" remarked a member
of the party. I'VE witnessed an Incl
dent which would merit investigation
by the food conservation commission"
Wacharreague is place where
thousands Of large drumfish are taken
from the ocean in nets and shipped
throughout the country, and one day
, while the Washington anglers were
there they noticed fishermen dump
fully a ton of the fish in the ocean.
The tide brought them ashore and the
dead carcasses attracted buzzards
There happened to be no shipping
facilities for the fish that day, it is
stated, and rather than distribute the
fish among the residents Of Wacha-
preague they were taken from shore
and dumped overheard toespoil.
Fish are plentiful there" COM
mented Mr.. Offterdinger. ITS only a
matter of going after them.
Catching drumflsh weighing from
twenty-five to fifty pounds is the at
tractive ocean sport, but the Wash
ington sportsmen contented them
selves catching trout, hogfish and
perch, while an occasional skate or
shark came along and caused more
or less excitement. 1t fell to the lot
of Sudwarth, Offterdinger and Bridget
to rescue a party whose boat was ma
| rooned on an island at high tide.
<rf,, I,nI
was the verdict of a party Of pisca-
torial artists on their return from a
! trip to Solomons Island, mouth of Pa
| tuxent river, a place where numerous
large catches of fish have been made
| this season.
Members of the party were W. H.
Harrison, c. K. Morrison, Mr.. Thomp-
| son. T. NJ. Garrett. w. A. Garrett and
| ]. L. Sherwood, jr. Leaving here In
Morrison's touring car. the party
made something short of a record
run, reaching the island in two and
water as early as 5 am.
Communicating Capt. Swift and his
| launch. the six sportsmen headed in
the direction of Drum point light,
where much of the fishing in that sec
tion is done, and soon 1t became evil
dent that their trip would prove sue
cessful.
When Capt. Swift lifted anchor at
! noon and returned to the island the
sportsnen had count Of IFS pounds
of hardheads. more than dozen big
cells and countless toadflsh! People at
Benedict. higher up the river. feed
the toads to hogs, but Solomons Is
land people say they think too much
Of their hogs to feed them such fish.
Henry Crack had Samuel Banks.
Harry Goldsmith, Nathan Robbins and
Mr.. Scott aboard his launch Codie for
| a fishing trip to the lower river.
1--WE thought we'd have sport catch
ing plymouth bass in the creeks"
said Crack, but were disappointed.
In the first place we learned the sea-
son for such fish was closed. and in
the second place there were no fish
to be caught"
Abandoning efforts to catch bass.
river as far as Colonial Beach.
crossed and went UP the Wicomico as
far as Chaptico, stopping at Rock
point and other places long enough
to land a few hardheads and numer-
GUS large white perch.
I'VE had no trouble getting fish
enough for our meals" said the cap
tain, who added that everybody had
an enjoyable time the four days they
were on the outing.
James Armstrong; detective ability
was brought into play on an outing
to Solomons Island for the week end
Ringgold Hart and Charlie Porter,
two companions. displayed their
ability to catch fish while on the
Patuxent late Saturday afternoon.
William Neumeyer, the fourth men,
Der of the quartet, failing to score.
The next morning. however, Neu-
meyer led his companions, setting
pace that made them get Industrious.
And to tell the truth" said Arm
got tired of catching them. reeled in
my line and went to Sleep"
Hardheads. exceptionally large,
were caught in great numbers, the
sportsmen frequently landing two at
time and stopping when they reach
sportsmen Of the quartet were able
to reduce the high cost of living with
fish that were presented them.
Curleys. near the mouth of Smith
creek, and only few miles from
of seven sportsmen on a week end
outing. Members of the party were
Harry Bliss, Andrew ]. Boyer, Will
liam J. Staub. p. H. Neumeyer. jr.:
Mr. Babcock, Leonard Williams and
Byron Wallerstein.
many visits to the lower Potomac and
spent enjoyable week ends at Cur
ley's. They admitted that the first
trip of the season netted them but few
fish: scarcely enough to keep the
wolf from the door for a day, but
Neumeyer was more fortunate than
his companions, his brother VIII hav-
ing participated in big catch at
Solomons Island.
There are plenty Of fish in the
river" commented Andrew Boyer
| "but when a fellow can't get boat
| man to put him on the rocks he can't
| expect to do much. That was our
trouble"
W. P. Bowie, A. J. Sahdala, S. J.
Held and numerous other anglers are
discussing the advisability of or
ganizing club among the active
anglers in this city, and it is probab BILE
that meeting will be held in the
near future to take action.
considering the large number of
active anglers there are in this city"
said Bowie. I'VE have very few clubs
The Anglers Association, of course.
| is one of the oldest clubs here, but its
| members are chiefly bass sportsmen.
Then there is the Columbia Fishing
| Club and several similar organiza-
| tions on the Patuxent near Mount
| Sahdala is enthusiastically in favor