The Washington herald., 1921-09-03
ANGLERS HOPEFUL
OF COOL WEATHER
FOR SPORTS SAKE
Big Catches of Bass Made
In Fresh and Salt
Water.
TAKE LIVE BAIT
Tackle Of District Fisherman
Lost in Fire at
Seneca.
TAKE LIVE BAIT
NJ DICK FEED.


fers lower temperature.
In the fresh waters bass are 20
ing after both live and artificial
bait vigorously. but moss covers the
rocks and furnishes cover In which
the live bait will hide almost as
soon As put over. Figure out your
own plan to evade this nuisance
either with small corks or floats
that will move easily through the
water and you should succeed In
landing q string of reasonable
length. In the brackish water be-
low the city the big.mouth bass
have not been taking live bait, du.
to the hot weather, but big catches
are reported frequently when arti.
ficial bait Is used.
Fred Anderson reports the CAPTURE
OF six hne small-mouth bass in vir-
ginia River.
serst. Mat. MaIoney is At Colonial
seach on . protracted outing and is
doing some successful fishing.
Pair Catch I01 Bass.
W. e. Shilling and Joe Perron
caught io1 bass In the Gunston Cove
last Saturday and Sunday. Artificial
bait was used.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Kane, Mr.. and
MIS- Charles Kengia and the latter,
sister. Miss Richardson. are in camp
At Simpsin's Bottom. above Great
Falls. Miss Richardson caught a
2h-pound bass.
The big bunk house owned by
Abraham Violet. Of Seneca, was de.
stroyed by IRE last Sunday after
noon Several Washington angler,
lost valuable fishing tackle ana
clothing in the flames. The place
was about the last Of the famous
old-time fishing resorts that fur
ntshed good meals and fishing ac-
commodations. It was q haven for
numerous washingtonians on fish.
ing trips. II Is said that Violet will
rebuild next season.
Emil Rice caught an eight pound
salt water trout hear Annapolis
last Sunday. The fish was the larg-
est one Of the kind reported by q
Washington angler this season.
Amos Hunt 10 spending q ten
day vacation casting for black bass
in the upper Potomac.
Billy Coleman and Ben Harding
were among the Washington fisher
men to try their luck at Benedict
early In the week. Both were sue
cessful. Harding included two big
founders in his catch.
G. r. Cooley, Of the Internal
Revenue service. and Harry Plant,
Of the navy yard. returned from
. fishing trip at Benedict. They
caught several trout ranging in
weight from two TO three pounds.
Bait is scarce In that locality.
Bass Refused to Strike.
W. D. Jewell. Of the Pension Of
hce. and @. r. wohlfarth, Of Ru.
dolph and West Company. caught a
few bass and pike at Aqua Creek.
fishing about one mile below the
bridge. They attribute their poor
success to the large number Of
smelt In the creek and clearness
of the water. Numerous bass Of
all sizes were seen swimming un-
der their boat and near the bait.
but refused to strike.
The Potomac Anglers Club Sc
lected Sunday. September IS. as the
date Of their annual outing. On
Sunday. September. IL. the French
sporting goods house will conduct
. similar AFFAIR. Chesapeake Beach
has been selected for both outings.
Robert consdon and James A.
.Brodnas are the guests Of Charles
Abbott. at Annapolis for the week
They enjoyed the good fishing and
made several big catchea
Andrew Roilinss had his best
day Of the season at Chesapeake
Beach last Saturday, Fishing from
the big pier. he landed q string
Of more than forty nice nsh.
Harry A., Taylor and Harry Allen
made . big catch Of trout off the
mouth OF West River the early part
Of the week. One Of the fish
weighed over four pounds.
a#-+T y u q .rF
Kari Achterkirschen came up from
his country. place on Chesapeake
Bay yesterday morning. He report
ed big trout a. plentiful.
Thomas Carr. Fred saffel. Thomas
Heaney. Thomas Holioran, Francis
Miller and George Mckee. jr.,, COM
posed . party chat motored to Piney
Point last Saturday for the week
end. The party caught fish until
they were tired OF the sport.
J. o. Foulke caught a four-pound
black hasa ateseneca last Monday.
Black bass are striking readily.
taking both artificial and live bait.
From Great Falls on up the river.
reports are made OF good catches
and the anglers at Dickerson's sta
tion, near the mouth OF the Monoc-
acy, and Of the "sswbuck" near
catoctin, are hovlng by for the best
sport Of the season.
George C. Sparks and his guest,
c. c. Gayiey. OF san Francisco. Cal.
had Q very successful trip to Ches-
apeaks Beach . few days 60. Thirty
big trout and ten .hardheads were