The Washington times., 1923-10-27

8D1e year 1OE IAS CdpIuE6 u DlS
could have been made Of all mol
water fishing grounds, the anglint
FISH history as a topnotcher.
will admit there have been m,
season as q whole there has been
D few anglers at times have thres
exclaiming, fishing is getting pt
Is having its struggle during th
nets, but we look for better thinl
cure these evils via the Federal c
Going back to the late winter and
the early spring we lind giant
catfish being taken from the fast
moving Potomac that compare
favorably in size and in many in
stances outweighing fish caught
In previous years.
One of the best catches, made
during the early stages, goes 10
the credit Of Messrs. Ruart and
Thompson when they landed on
one tide eighty.five pounds Of fish.
r. +. Green leads all competitors so
tar this season and in all probable
fly his record viii remain unbroken.
It was during the month Of May
that the angler landed two cattys
that weighed twenty and thirty
pounds apiece.
The white perch season was on a
par with the past couple OF years.
Not every angler who visited the
river was fortunate enough to land
big fish or even moderate size
ones, but the fellows blessed with
luck that were on hand when the
schools arrived say that perch
fishing this spring far surpassed
the 1922 season.
The best catch of perch re-
ported this year was made on
Monday, May Z, near THE Par
lOr." The brother angler, whose
name / could not procure, land
Cd over fifty fish that ran from
eight to fourteen inches. The
largest fish weighed one and one
half pounds.
The rock fish tribe which con-
Hnue to be taken in local waters
have furnished abundant sport and
some rare specimens have been
boated. The largest striper record
Cd this season fell to the boat oc-
cupied by sid" Held and Charley
Fletcher and weighed twenty-five
pounds.
Other anglers who have made
creditable showings are Messrs.
Wheeler, Fisher, Joe Fletcher, Lew
Perron, Lew Perron, jr., Ruddiman,
Bennett, Craig, Viegner, Hurdle.
and Buckingham. Some Of the fish
taken by these anglers ran near
the twenty pound mark.
Although there has been some
IL hos
faII. anglers still hold out that be-
fore the final curtain Is drawn on
the 1928 season some new records
viii be established.
The largest bass taken by any
local piscatOr goes to Mrs. b. c.
Patterson. At POcOnO Sumte,
Va, she landed a prize winner
weighing seven pounds and two
ounces.
Finer smaIl-mouthed bass fishing
has not been had in years. During
the month of July, when the coun-
try was suffering drought, the
upper river was in excellent condi-
ton and anglers flocked to its
broken waters to combat with the
Eamesters.
1t was during this spell Of dry
ness that John Hurley landed the
ring leader Of the season. Fishing
ut Weverton he creeled q tighter
weighing four and one-half pounds.
He entered the fish in the Atlas
Sporting Goods House contest and
down to date he Is leading the
deld.
salt water fishing has held its
own throughout the season and
some fine specimens Of the migra-
tory tribes have been boated by
local anglers.
The Morton Street Fishing Club
have the best record for hardhead
angling this season. On Satur-
day, June 9, the club visited
Chesapeake Beach and landed $50
pounds of select fish.
The largest hardhead known to
be caught north of Cape Henry
was landed the forepart of July by
A. T. Green, OF Michigan City.
md, In Shelter Bay, opposite c. H.
Neeley's place, South River Park,
Nd. The fish weighed nine and
three-quarter pounds.
Seven and one-half pounds is the
record trout 80 far this season.
The fish was landed at Benedict
during the present month. Mr.. A.
Grinder IL far out in front in the
National Military and Sport Shop
trout contest. His offering, which
was landed last week, weighed
six and one-half pounds and was
taken at Bloody Point Light.
Lew Perron holds the blue fish
record with a four and one-quarter
pound fighter. r. D. Simonds and
c. s. Brittaine have to their credit
the largest number Of tailors taken
on one tide. eighteen in number,
averaging two and one-half pounds
each.
The game birds and wild fowl
Of this continent are facing Ger.
tain extinction within q very few
years IL their destruction con-
tinues to increase each year as it
has during the past decade. One
Of the chief reasons for the liter
ally appalling annual destruction
Ii the automatic shotgun.
A national campaign Of education
and persuasion Is now being con-
Quoted by Field and Stream in an
effort to persuade the hunter of
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