Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
ROD AND STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER.

TIME first fish to be entered in the
Rod and Stream contest was a
14-pound Bounce rockflsh
caught by Fred B. Mills of "A
I,ongfellow street northwest. He landed
his prize at 1890 Thursday morning
under Chain Bridge in the Upper Po-
tomac and it took him Is minutes to
subdue him and get the fish into his
boat. He used cut herring for bait.
Following the announcement last
week of the game fishing contest, re-
ports indicate that the announcement
was received with wide acclaim from
all quarters. Everybody is talking about
the big fish they will enter for one of
the handsome prizes, but the cry so
far is How can we enter any fish if
they don't bite!"
1t seems that the strong northwest
and west winds have blown away the
fish in the vicinity of Chesapeake Beach
and Herring Bay. Anyway none are
being caught Our correspondent at
the beach reports that fishermen on the
pier have had few strikes.
Quite different reports reach us from
Solomons Island and Benedict. Down
at Solomons Island hardhead, trout
and rockfish are being caught. Last
Sunday a party of Washingtonians
landed a good string of hardhead, a
few spot and white perch and one trout
weighing pounds.
j. c. Webster, well known to many
hundreds of anglers who visit Solomons
Island each year reports that he landed
IS rockfish last Saturday trolling off
Point Patience. The largest. of his catch
tipped the scales at 8 pounds. Just to
show how contrary are the denizens of
the deep, Sunday morning one boat
went out three or four miles in the bay
and no one in the party got strike.
On their way back they passed another
boat making out and when asked what
luck, replied nothing doing. This same
boat anchored on the exact fishing
grounds where the previous boat did not
get strike and returned with large
catch of hardheads.
GEORGE BOWEN, well known to Wis
" itors to Solomons Island, said that
the rockish were biting now in good
style, but that owing to the great depth
of the water off Point Patience the ma
jority of the anglers trolling for them
did not know just how to fish. He said
that the fish were all on the bottom at
the present time and that it required a
good deal of lead to take the lures down
to them
Capt. Ernest Messick telephoned yes
terday that he had had a good days
fishing, his party having landed 80
hardheads and one pan-size rock. Irv-
ing A. Lehman also reports good fish
ing at Benedict, his party landing IA
hardheads last Sunday and 6 rockfish,
the largest weighing AZ pounds Leh-
man says the fish took peeler crabs or
bloodworms, but would not touch the
shrimp offered
Marshal Morgan and Col. J. P. Turrell
of this city accompanied by Maj. Carl
Hanna of Norfolk paid a visit last Sun
day to Chincoteague and fished in the
surf. They landed four channel bass,
the larges Of which weighed so pounds.
Morgan brought his 50-pound bass
home and when his laundress saw it, she
exclaimed: MY goodness, Mister Nor
gan, but that Is surely some carp" This
was not much reward for landing a So
pound. channel bass on comparatively
light tackle after a 30-minute battle.
The three other fish weighed about 25
pounds each.