Evening star., 1922-02-05
(National Photo.)

Islands. off Panama, and in pretty
| nearly every stream in this country
| and that without recourse to the in
alienable right Of every true fisher
man to Unfortunately exaggerate. He
| made a special trip to Canada a little
while back to fish for the ounaniche,
| which. he says, is the earnest fish in the
world and to be found only in a lake
at the headwaters of the Saguenay
river. On one exploit in particular
| he prides himself-that rs catching a
twenty-four and ee-quarter-pound
muskellunge with a six-ounce pole
without landing net. at Burt Lake,
Mich.
On several trips he has fished in
the great national parks and says
his party of congressman caught trout
so fast in Yellowstone river that they
got beyond the limit before they had
I fairly started.
"The greatest fun, after all, is bass
! fishing" Representative Wood says.
There is no other fish that holds
sport for the true angler that bass
! does" He points out that he has
caught red snappers off the Pearl Is
lands weighing fifty pounds, but
| there is not as much sport In it as
to catch three-pound bass"
Representative Wood fishes philoso-
phically and as a student. He studies
the characteristics of fish and finds
| that they are "as eccentric as man.
IT have seen times" he says, when
you cannot tempt them with any kind
of bait, when they just will not bite,
and the very next day in the very
same place they will fall for most
anything"
Representative George P. Darrow of
Pennsylvania has fished all along the
Atlantic coast from Maine to the
Panama canal His biggest catch
was on the Pearl Islands, about fifty
miles off the coast of Panama in the
Pacific. There it doesn't take very
many to make a heavy catch,' he ex-
planned. because got a red snapper
that weighed sixty-three pounds and
several groupers that weighed seven
ty-five to ninety pounds" He says
that in the jack he found a very
gamey fish and that it shows more
fight than any in those waters. 1t Is
built like a bluefish, but chunkier, he
explains. There they trolled from
power boat, using special spoon. 1t
sometimes takes twenty minutes to a
half hour TO land one of these jacks.
TN any story about congressional
L fishing parties one must not over
look Representative George M. BOW
ers of West Virginia, because he was
United States fish commissioner for
fifteen years, under three Presidents
Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft. In
that position he had charge of stock
ing of streams and ponds. His job in
cluded a study Of anything that was
killing off food fish in the lakes and
streams and investigating all fishing
grounds. On that job he did much to
improve the study Of fish culture and
to make fishing royal sport for his
subsequent associates in Congress.
Representative Florian Lampert of
Wisconsin has surprised some of his
colleagues who, thinking him a mere
tyro in the art of 1zaak Walton, en-
ticed him on a fishing trip recently
with the special design of showing
their superior qualities as fishermen.
He showed them all a thing or two.
Representative Lampert has fished
in hundreds Of places, but is proudest
of a catch he made in one-half hour
on an August day on Lake Winne-
baKo-twenty-nine black bass. sixteen
pike and eight sheepheads.
Dan Sutherland. delegate from
Alaska. has seen fishing from another
angle. He was in the business COM
mercially on the Atlantic coast at
Salem, Mass, and on the Pacific coast
.at juneau, Alaska, 30 he can very
truthfully. bs said - have spanned