The Washington times., 1925-04-04

are three practice sessions a
week and on Thursday all other
spring athletic workouts are
abandoned so that football may
not be interfered with.
of the water for twenty-four hours.
The bass was taken via the mock
system" live bait, smelt.
(, The record shows the outfit
with which the bass was taken
consisted Of Bristol steel rod,
Shakespeare standard profession
al reel, number nineteen Cincin-
natl bass hook and Black Won
der. eightecn-pound test line.
White perch are gradually COM
ing into their own and by next
week they should be arriving and
departing in big schools on most
every change of tide.
Few anglers have been fortunate
in hitting into any of the advance
clan. The best catch recorded
during the week fell to the boat
of Gene Hurd and his friend VIII
kins. On Wednesday this pair of
anglers fishing In the neighborhood
of Fletchers landed fifty odd silvery
brethren. The fish ran to about
four to the pound.
The weather man has promised
fair, warm day for tomorrow and
with the river In a fishable con.
dition quite an array of piscators
should turn out to trail the mi
gratory perch. The tides favor
perch fishing for Palm Sunday
which are as follows:
High tides 800. 6:1S am. 5:41 pm.
Low tide ...... .11:15 am.
Catfishfng continues to be par
excellent and any follower Of the
art who failed to get his share
of skin fish during the week
must surely have been q dry
land angler. According to Mrs.
/ Underwood an angIerette of rare
ability, on last Sunday fully 300
cattyS were taken I'm the imTne.
diate vicinity Of Chain bridge.
Some of the fish, says Mrs. I'm
derwO0d weighed NJ around q
dozen pounds.
the bass and crappie season in tie
District, which does not open again
until May 80. The law reads that
the gamesters shall not be angled
for or put on display for sale dur
ing the closed period.
True sportsmen obey. the law -
the letter for they know to take
the gamester from their breeding
grounds means the killing OF the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Unsportsmenlike fishermen. who
disregard all laws Of man and ma
ture, should be brought to feel the
extent Of the courts and ogtracized
by all true anglers.
On the same day that the game
fish season closed in the Distric.,
Virginia opened her portals to trout
anglers.
Saltwater angling fails 60 get
under way. Any number Of fish
ermen tried their luck from the
long pier at Chesapeake Beach
on last Sunday. but only one
perch and an eel was taken.
with the exception of 3 few
herring and an occasional big
rock net fishermen are about on
even terms with the hook and
liners.
The American Game Protective
Association, which sponsored the
migratory bird refuge bill. an
nounces that the campaign Tor It's
passage in the Sixty-ninth Con-
gress Is already on.
This bill. which unquestlonaDly
is the most important wild HE
conservation measure since the mi.
Rratory- bird treaty legislation OF
q decade ago, would have surely
nassed had the session lasted d
few DAYS longer. The House had
triunphantly passed it, and a largo
ma iority IN the Senate were an
xious to vote for it. The Rules
Committee had given 1t special
Mace on the calendar. Nevertne.
less. in the crush at the END OF
the session, it failed to get ITS
hearing.
The bill was handled both In
House and Senate with skill ana
energy. It was steered ably
through the rushing waters OF tho
swift finish, babied around sharp
corners and pried off sand bars.
It's failure was a heavy blow to
nature conservationists throughout
the country, but it must not be
charged against a Congress Wnicn.
in large majority, earnestly desired
its passage.
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