Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-19
ROD AND STREAM
BY Perry Miller

ginia. First the clerk of the court at
Rockville was appealed to without sue.
cess. Next the matter was taken up
with the conservation commissioner of
Maryland and then with Coy. Richie.
The executive is in favor of the prop.
osition and a favorable decision is ex-
pected.
The Potomac, in addition to being
polluted by foreign matter. again has
become so muddy that it resembles the
color of we'll baked loaf of bread. 1t
will be a week or 10 days before it
again is clear.
A reader of this column inquiries
where on the Potomac above Chain
Bridge a d. G. fisherman may operate
without fishing in Maryland waters.
The District line crosses the Potomac
u of mile above Chain Bridge.
There is a house on the District side,
occupied by q man named Lynch, that
is situated practically on the dividing
line. His next question is answered
by the information that Little Falls
is about mile from Chain Bridge. To
fish any place on the Potomac above
tidewater a Maryland license is re-
quired, because Maryland has juris
diction over the Potomac to the Vir-
| ginia shore. In answer to another
| query, there are several kinds of bait
| for catfish: minnows, worms, -four
made up into "a dough. etc. AS q mat
| ter of fact, catfish evil take almost
any kind Of lure.
1t seems that many anglers do not
understand Maryland fishing regula-
| tons +. X. Stonestreet, writing in
| from Rock Point, says, THE people
in Washington do not generally I'M
derstand the fishing license law. There
were several people here last Sunday
who said the paper stated that you
must have license to fish anywhere
In the State of Maryland, and that the
article did not say that the law only
applied to water above tidewater. VIII
you please make it plain In your col.
umn?"
stony" as he is known to his
many friends, reports that hardheads
are biting and that Capt. Ollie Hayden
caught 30 three-pounders in the
middle Of the Potomac last Saturday
with one dozen soft crabs.
Ernest A. Mueller and William
Jacobs. fishing at Cedar Hurst, Md,
on me bay, located two miles this
side of Shadyside, last week caught
40 hardheads ranging from / to 2B
pounds. They used soft crabs and
shrimp for bait.
letter received yesterday follows:
Judd & DetwiIer have TIE
champs In bowling and the champs in
base ball, but kindly take notice OF
their fishing team, Louis Tripp, Phil
Goodall and Charles Furtsch."
Ihis trio landed 200 specimens re.
entity at Shadyside, Md.
The Evening Star Club held its
annual Summer outing last Sunday
&C the Biltmore Club at South River.
Inc anglers of the club got an early
start, and after eating their breakfast
at the club motored down to Anna.
pols and went out over the oyster
bars TO try their luck with hardheads
ana other fish. On this trip The
smaller the boat the more fish were
caught, and one party landed II big
hardheadS and one large spot. Re
SIDES the fish a good healthy coat Of
sunburn was brought back bv ali
anglers.
A party OF local anglers Ten,
Huett, Jack Bond, Merritt and Ro1nh
Super, visited Franklin Manor or
Chesapeake Bay last Saturday nigh,
and reported the fishin fine. Theiy
catch was as hardheads. some -,
them running to unusual size.