Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11

While there are thousands of fish
being landed from the bay along the
western shore, and some Va them good,
big ones, the majority of real prize
winners are caught in the deep water
on the eastern short of the bay. Some
OF the places where good catches were
made on the eastern side of the bay
include Tigheman, Claiborne, St.
Michaels, on the Miles River, and on
what may be called ''our side of the
bay" Annapolis, on the Severn; Solo,
mons, on the Patuxent River, and
Herring Bay. Chesapeake Beach, Shady
Side, Deep Cove and Plum Point also
sent in reports of good catches. The
lower Potomac also is rewarding
anglers with good catches, Rock Point,
Piney Point, Colonial Beach and other
places on the lower river drawing
their quota of fishermen, who report
excellent catches.
In the last few years West River
has attracted many residents from
7 Washington. This place also has long
been known as a good fishing ground
for trout, rock, spot and hardheads,
and reports come to this column that
i SIS spot and 80 hardheads were recent
" taken in one day just below the
mouth of the river, on what is known
as Three Sisters Bar.
Saltwater Fishing Best.
"A recent report from Herring Bay
gave as many as 1872 hardheads hav-
Ing. been caught by one fishing boat.
SPOT and rock also are found In this
locality.
These reports lead this column to
state that the best fishing is to be had
Z by those visiting saltwater grounds.
or course, there is no denying the
Ham
bass takes your bait or lure and starts
tes run, with the subsequent tight 70
land him, but three or four pound
rock puts up a game fight, and the
larger members of the hardhead fam
ilv resent being pulled from their
homes on the floor of the bay and
rivers, this fish being a bottom FEEDER,
and also fights and dies hard.
Then again the small-moutn angler
may travel miles to some highly tout
ed bass stream, and when ne gets
there find the water muddy or too
badly discolored to permit fishing with
any success. Or, again, he may reach
l1fs favorite stream and get IN one
good days fishing to wake up the
Tlext morning and find the stream
muddy from some storm 10 miles
away.
But the saltwater angler need
never worry about the water DelHS
fI4ai1dy. OF course, there are times
when even salt water becomes a lit
! tie cloudy from heavy rains, especially
near the mouth of some river empty
ing into the bay or alt-water
streams, but conditions never are bad
enough to prevent fishing. And. last
of all, the saltwater angler hardly
ever returns home without fish, which
cannot be said OF the small or big
mouth angler of today. due princi.
paily to the illegal and high.handed
methods of those engaged in the COM
rnercial end of the game and to the
pollution Of many of our streams.
Fishing at White Point.
william E. Shea, following an an.
rloincement in this column OF good
y FISHING at White Point, just a few
miles on the other side Of Leonard
town. sends in the following account
Or q visit to that place: II
-Four of us Including my year
old sony spent Saturday afternoon and
Sunday at one of Buck O'Brfen's four
sisfiing camps at White Point. Before
dawn on Sunday we rowed out about
mile from shore to an oyster bed.
Ia q couple of hours we caught about
20 hardheads, the largest of which,
aS-pounder, was brought In by the
younRest member OF the party. We
were using shrimp for bait. but we
had along al few bloodworEls, and
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