The Washington times., 1930-07-18
fine CATCHES
REPORTED BY
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ANGLERS
BY GINo SIM

uOLLlIO
BY GINO SINH
; OF all the species of sportsmer
known to mankind the worlc
over, the fisherman is, by far, th'
strangest. That, kind people, Il
q statement which we shall haster
to qualify.
Take your angling fiend; take
i any Of EN-: take 'em all-you art
welcome to 'em. But, for the pur
pose Of this tale, Just hold 'en
off at arm length for spell
Contemplate them from every
angle; turn them upside down
shake them out well-it won't dis
turb 'em.
Here is a specie OF homos sappy
aunts who is a law unto himself
He Is amenable to no one, ex
cept, perhaps, to the laws OF
nature. and often he quarrels
with these.
He stalks the finny tribe at all
hours and under all weather con
ditions. Nothing .daunts him
The golfing fiend, returns tC
normalcy after dark, SO does the
hunter, the baseball nut, or the
tennis hound, but not your fish
kidnaper. Twelve o'clock at night
or 3 o'clock in the afternoon OF
a sweltering July day are all one
and the same to him.
For hours will a fisher
man hang over the gunwale
of q leaky old boat, hook in
water, and wait and wait.
Success or failure means moth,
ing to him, it is the fact that
he has sailed forth in pursuit of
his passion that gives him pleas
ure. That Is freedom, life and
pursuit of happiness.
At home your piscatorial ad-
dict may be a wife-heater, ter
rible-tempered rascal, a scarer
of children, but give him a pond,
a place to sit, a bent pin on the
end Of a string and a half-dozen
worms, and. 10, you have the
gentlest, most docile. patient and
inoffensive Of mortals. If dis
turbed, he merely signs ovef the
perversity of human nature and
moves to a quieter, more remote
location.
That, people. is the ideal fish
erman. the queereSt Of sports
man, but evidently the only one
who most thoroughly, completely
and eternally enjoys his pastime,
for he can follow his recreation
in ali climes, and at all ages.
His is the sport Of kings or beg
ears, the barefoot boy or CEN
tegenarian. They say Methuselah
made his best catch the day be-
fore. he died.
wonderful catches of hard.
reads have been reported from
bloody Point Light to Solomons
Island.
Buck Grier, pilot of the crack
Northern A. c. nine, Handsome
FITZGERALD, Johnny Goetz, Cap
tain Cortade and Lefty (The
Great) Mcintyre. the Art Shires
Of the Washington sandlots. all
members of the team, pulled in
144 large crabs at Plum Point
early in the week.
'"They are plentiful" re-
marked the mighty Petworth
magnate.
Henry and Bill Ciccerone and
Bill O'Neill had a catch Of rs
hardheads. not one of them under
two pounds. IS miles out from
Annapolis and they weren't out
very long, either. They used
peeler crabs. They also got
eight fine looking cells.
Charlie Hammer, Four-and- One.
half and N Streets Southwest.
yanked out 495 hardheads off
Claiborne. The catch weighed
1,105 pounds.
Hanky Noyes found hardheads
at Brick Lantern, Md. William
Powell has been averaging from
SO to IS fish per catch at Frank
lin Manor Beach.
Other fine catches of hard
heads were reported at Bloody
Point Light, Cedarhurst, Gales
willie, SolomonS Island, Piney
Point and all Chesapeake Bay
points.
Hardheads were found at
Benedict, unusual for this time Of
the year, while Pete ChaconaS
and Captain Cortade pulled out
few good looking spots there.
Big spots were also caught at
Plum Point, and Bloody Point
Light. Herring Bay reports a
few trout. All in all, bay fishing
is ideal, and will likely continue
for the time being.
Penefield and Seneca. way up
the river, report a good run of
beautiful small mouthed black
bass who are fond of mad toms.
DR.. Magee, president of the
local Ike Walton Chapter, has
gone to Canada for an extensive
fishing trip.
FOOLED EXPERTS
Hollywood Dick, winner of the
$4,000 trot at Avon, Conn, re-
Gently, was once adjudged by
horsemen without racing value
and sold for a reported price of