The Washington herald., 1919-07-12
Fishing
BY Dick Peed

bright moonlight enables those in
clined to try their luck at night
time and proves much more pleas.
ant than sitting in the hot sur
waiting for the tide to turn and
the fish to begin taking the bait.
Bass fishing in the Potomac has
! been excellent since Saturday and
! several fine strings have come &c
notice. The storm Thursday stirred
the mud along Goose Creek and the
Monocacy and the Potomac was
muddy on both sides at Great Falls
but plenty of clear in the center
offered opportunity for bass. Later
reports indicated bad water in the
4 Shenandoah and clear water in the
upper Potomac
Len Kukart had a successful
| trip to Seneca in quest of bass the
earlier part of the week.
Clarence Sohe and John Sheehan
have returned from an extended fish
: ing trip in Maine. Nohe reports TAX
! ing twelve trout that weighed over
four pounds each and five salmon of
over FIVE pounds each, besides nu-
merous smaller fish OF the same va
rieties. while Sheehan's catch was
even greater.
! Charles Sayles, James T. Elicit,
Warren Preisser, Harry Simpson and
; DR.. Cummings motored to Rock
Point on the morning OF July 4 and
returned with a miscellaneous catch
of over 100 fish, including a number
OF trout
, The Potomac Anglers Club has is
sued a neat poster bearing the fish
/ laws of Maryland and Virginia. and
when and where the aforesaid laws
apply. You should read and heed
this poster
/ Fred Anderson and Lew Aller
caught seventeen small-mouth basi
/ in few hours fishing near Seneca
last Saturday.
! Night fishing at Chesapeake Beach
/ is fine sport and many big catches
are being made by the light Of the
!. moon. A party composed of A. j
! Sadahla, William Rich. Eugene Heard
Mack Sparrough. William Wyncoop
! Edward Lyon and George Long tried
the sport Thursday night. Besides
| the thrills of being at sea in a storm
! they had fine luck and returned yes
| terday morning with over 100 big fish,
more than fifty being trout.
| The two houses of Congress have
many anglers on the rosters. Sen
ator Mark Smith. of Arizona, stand:
out as the leading Senatorial angler
while Representative Oscar Bland u
4 a. ~
rod and reel in the House.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gerhauser and
A! daughter. Miss Daisy. accompanied
by Robert A. Dunn and Miss Annie
Gross motored to South River for q
weekend trip. They caught plenty
of fish and crabs and report a fine
! time.
! Ernest H. Shinn and son, after 6
futile try for small mouth bass in
! the cloudy water above Great Falls q
: few days ago. repaired to the bis
/ pool just below the falls and from
! o'clock till they caught twenty Mis-
! sissippi cats that weighed in the ag
gregate more than 100 pounds.
; R. A. Martin and Fred A. Whit,
+, spent the Fourth and several subse
quent days at Colonial Beach erect
/ ing a camp for a protracted stay
later on. They tried their luck 6
couple of times while visiting and re
port the fishing good. some unusual
, ly fine perch being taken along will
both trout and hard heads.
Fishing from the dam above Great
Falls on the morning of the Fourth
Amos z. Hunt, who caught the Field
and Stream prize small-mouth bass
! in 1918. had visions of another prize
winner when he hooked a big fisi
that put up an unusually hard fight
with Charles Groome handling tn,
landing net the fish was finally cap
tured. but proved to be a big Mis-
sissippi cat.
DIR. Clark caught seven bass be,
low Seneca on the Fourth of July.
The commercial printers of Wash
ington, headed by Lew Thayer. will
go to Rock Point in full strength
this morning to spend the day il
fishing. bathing and general athletic
sport.
| John w. Hurley went to Harper,
Ferry the first of the week to tr,
for bass. Suitable bait was unob
tainable and as q consequence nj
fish Hurley reports seeing thre,
heavy strings Of bass come in Will.
waiting for return train.
| Sergt. John Waller, perhaps the old
est fisherman In Washington, caugh
a ~ pound rock fish in the Easter
Branch just of the Washington nav,
yard a few days ago.
Harry Bosiey, ]. A. Evard, Juliar
Evard. Walter Gonzales, T. Inelee
]. B. Head and Edward and LIE,
Snyder made a road trip to Rocl
! Point on the morning OF the Fourth
and came home with over 200 fish O
! various kinds.
William Eaton. of Clarendon, Va.
went by automobile to Chesapeake,
Beach the early part of the week ant
| returned with a large catch of fisi
to divide with neighboring friends
Edward Ford. washington's cham
pion wing shot, reports thesca O
ifty-four big mouth bass at Smith,
Lake. near Norfolk, a few days ago
\ John e. Buckingham is in receipt
of a letter from his son, a resident
of Norfolk, containing story and
picture of the largest bass caught
In Smiths Lake in many years. The
big fellow pulled the scales to 102
pounds, and was taken by DR.. Bybee
one Of the best of the many anglers
of Norfolk. Smiths Lake, Is the
source of Norfoik's water supply
and a permit from the mayor Of a