Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01
ROD AND STREAM
By Perry Miller.

Pa, when an interstate council of the
! league is to be formed.
Fishing at Wachaprcague, Va, four
days last week. Leo Corners and j. E.
Hartman caught numerous fish OF
every kind except channel bass. The
| first day, these anglers said. they land
cd nothing to amount to anything, their
trout weighing not over l I, pounds. The
second day they landed 90 trout, none
very large. but succeeded in catching a
great number OF founders. ranging from
to 10 pounds, and some sea bass. The
next day they landed 81 trout and II
kngfish and on the last day they again
landed many founders $50 many. in
fact, that they got their boatmen to
move to get away from them), some
more sea bass and % kingf1sh.
These anglers stopped at Holly Farm,
run by Brook Phillips. and the anglers
were generous in their praise of the
treatment accorded them. They we're
so well pleased that they are returning
to Wachaprague after Labor day. when
they expect to run into some of the big
trout that return to those waters during
September and October.
Manufacturers of fishing tackle are
keenly alive to the fact that the pros
perity of their business depends upon
the maintenance of more fish in the
streams and lakes of the country, ac-
cording to an American Game Protcc-
tive Association bulletin. At a recent
convention of the manufacturers of
fishing equipment a national fish survey
was urged and all interested in any way,
directly or indirectly, are invited to
share in this movement. In their reso-
luton the manufacturers pointed out
that there has been tremendous in
crease in the number of anglers during
the last few years, while the facilities
for increased propagation by the States
and Federal Government have not been
able to keep pace.
Improved facilities for reaching fish
ing waters indicate that the number of
fishermen will increase rapidly in the
years to come. 1t is believed that the
time has come for each State to take an
account of stock of its fishing condi-
lions, compare those conditions with
those of years past and determine what
shall be done to meet the present criti-
cal situation.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries
has accepted an invitation to partici-
pate in this survey and doubtless all
State fish and game departments will
do likewise. 1t is step in the right
direction, because the basis for any con-
structlve work must be an exact under
standing of facts and conditions exist
ing. In these modern days of improved
efficiency nothing left to guess work can
be expected to succeed.
Washington anglers are invited to en-
ter the casting tournament to be held
in Baltimore on September 81 and %
George r. Babylon, president of the
Baltimore Casting Club, under date of
August 20 says:
MY dear Mr.. Miller: Find inclosed
advanced circular giving line on the
program of the tournament that we are
holding here on September 81 and %.
This tournament We expect to be the
largest that has ever been held in the
East, and We would not only appreciate
you and your friends in Washington en-
tering each event. but We would like to
have you present both days and as
many of your Washington friends who
will care to come over" Mr.. Babylon's
address is 40 Fidelity Building. Ealti-
more. Md.
Our correspondent at Harpers Ferry
wires In that the Potomac River at
that place is clear and the Shenandoah
slightly cloudy.