Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER.

- TARTING next Friday this col
umn will print each week table
\ giving high and low tides at the
following places: Washington,
Annapolis, Chesapeake Beach, Solomons
Island, Benedict, Point Lookout and
Rock Point. These tables will be given
each week during the Summer months
and were prepared for this column by
the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The
tides are given for the principal fish,
ing places, and all intermediate places
the angler may approximate the tide.
The last session Of the General As
sembly of Virginia made a change in
the fishing laws that requires an angler
to have q license TO fish in any fresh
water stream, both In tidewater and
above tidewater. Heretofore a license
was required to fish above q point
where the tide GIBBS and flows. Now
all anglers fishing anywhere in the
State in fresh water must have licenses.
The cost is $3.50.
OWING to cold weather the second
~ de luxe fishing trip to Wacha-
preague, Va, has been postponed one
week and is now definitely set for
Sunday, May IL. This trip will be held
under the auspices Of the Atlas Sports
Goods Co. and Ollie Atlas will be in
personal charge of the outing. Last
year, favored with good weather, the
20 anglers who made up the party had
the time of their lives, catching 1900
trout for net weight of over two
tons. The cost of this outing Is $50,
which includes everything.
T Asst Wednesday Commissioner Henry
- O'Malley of the United States
Bureau of Fisheries and DR.. M. DARCY
Magee left for the annual convention
of the Izaak Walton League of America,
at Chicago. Both these men are going
as delegates from the Washington,
D. c., chapter. The delegates have
been instructed to present to the con-
vention several matters of great i'm
portance, one of which Is resolution
adopted at its April meeting calling
upon the league to adopt national
policy with respect to bass conservation
and protection. The resolution says:
THAT the executive board of the league
initiate at once Federal legislation for
the creation of a new division in the
Federal Bureau of Fisheries, which will
function specifically for the conserva-
ton and protection of the game fish
of America"
Another matter to be taken up by
the convention will be a model form
of law prohibiting the sale of bass, the
possession of bass for the puroose of
sale and the taking of bass for any
commercial purposes. .'
CWEPSON EARLE, Maryland conserv-
- alton commissioner, speaking at a
luncheon last week before the newly
organized Sportsmen'S Club of Balti-
i'll H. L., "a
sized trout after they are hooked. He
said:
within a few days after the opening
of the trout season on April l we re-
ceived numerous reports of many fish
seen dead in the streams. These we're
caught by fishermen and returned be-
cause of their size and died as a result
of being hooked" Earle said there was
a growing custom of anglers returning
to the waters small trout which are
caught in the hope of hooking larger
fish.
1.-The sporting thing for the angler
to do is to keep all fish caught if they
are of legal size and thereby prevent
the waste which occurs when a fish
is hooked and thrown back to die. The
department will trust to sportsmanshlp
on the part of the angler at first, but
If this does not succeed we will have to
take other measures. When a fish
reaches seven inches in length 1t rep
resents considerable expense to the
department"
Because of this complaint. the COM
missioner stated, the department will
place only legal-size fish in the streams,
or In its distribution calculate the
growth of the trout from the time Of
planting until the opening OF the sea-
son. He said that a six-inch trout
planted in the Fall will grow to over
legal size before the opening OF the sea-
son the following April.
a CCORDING to Capt. Mortimer Bow
IA en- of Solomons Island, hardheads
in great numbers have made their ap-