Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

!
r. weather fishing has improved at
! some of. the salt water fishing
grounds, particularly at Solo
mons Island, Benedict and places on
the lower Potomac around Leonard
town and Piney Point. The dyed-in-
the-wool anglers who visit the pier at
Chesapeake Beach have been disap-
pointed so far this season. Several
anglers who like to fish at night have
waited all night on the pier without
getting strike.
A. H. G. Mearns informs this COL
umn that the season for the big
| channel bass has opened at Wacha-
! prsague and that last Thursday two
boats on the ocean had catches of
| nine each. Two boats fishing on the
inside of Wachapreague Bay landed
one channel bass each and another
angler lost hooks, line and sinksrS
WHEN he hooked one OF these big
"fclle.s."
Over on the Eastern Shore Capt
Dan P Ball reports that all boats are
making large catches of hardhead and
| some rock.
The best fishing right now is at Solo
mons Island, where hardhead and rock
are furnishing great sport. The hard
head are being caught both in the Bay
and in the Patuxent River. Of Point
Patience the rockfish are putting up
great battles with the trollers. j. C.
Webster fishing at this place last Sat-
urday landed 25 of these beauties, the
largest weighing pounds.
CAPT. ERNEST MESSICK says that
~ fishing down at Benedict has been
very good during last week. and
that on Thursday his party landed SO
hardhead and ] rock and that other
to 40 hardhead.
The hardhead have not commenced
to strike around Chesapeake Beach and
the Herring Bay district, according to
reports.
In the lower Potomac around Leon
ardtown and Piney Point the reports
last week were not very encouraging,
but some catches were being made of
hardhead ana rock.
Anglers returning from the Maryland
trout streams report these places pretty
well fished out. The fish caught are
small.
THE first fish to be entered in the
l. Rod and Stream contest. was a large
rockfiSh caught in the Potomac River
| by Fred B. Mills of a. Longfellow street
northeast. Mills in reporting his catch,
said he was fishing from a boat directly
under Chain Bridge in the middle of
the stream. He was using cut herring
for bait. He said it took him Is min
utes to subdue his prize, which weighed
IA pounds and ounces.
MRS. FLORENCE P. KAHN, Repre-
WI 10 u,l1o
Rod and Streams radio speaker last
Thursday, gave some very interesting
facts about fishing in her home State
and told why California is one of the
best fishing States in the Union.
Mrs. Kahn said that California has
26 900 miles of inland water fishing
streams and 10000 lakes available for
the sportsmen. These streams, she said,
were stocked with trout rainbow, brown,
steelhead. Loeb Leven, cutthroat, east
ern brook trout and the beautiful golden
trout and large and small mouth bass.
In the ocean the angler can find al
most any species OF fish he desires, sail!
| fish, tuna, swordfish, striped bass or
rock fish, and others too numerous to
mention.
Mrs. Kahn said that California has
the largest trout hatchery in the world
at Mount Shasta. With SO brood ponds
and hatcheries it is equipped to
handle more than 100000 trout
year.
Nets in the Chesapeake Bay and its
! tributaries below PooleS Island, set to
catch shad and herring must be taken
up Immediately, Swepson Earle, Mary
land conservation commissioner. an
nounces. Those above Poole's Island
can remain until June 10, he added.
| Violators of this order are subject to
fine of from S25 to 500. According
to law the nets should have been re-
moved May 81 but Commissioner Earle
conceded the fishermen 10 days added
! time.
7 RVING A. LEHMAN sends in the
following letter:
MY dear Mr.. Miller:
For the past six weeks or more
I have noticed with a great deal OF
interest that your columns are better
and more 'newsy' than they have been
in past years, and I believe that If
more Of your readers were to let you
hear from them you could keep the
readers up to date better and thus
render a better service. With that in
mind, I am glad to submit the fol-
lowing:
The writer, in company with DR..
j. c. Copenhaver, H. F. VIM, Arthur
VIM and I. Rosenblatt, base just re-
turned from a trip to Benedict, Md,
with a stable string of fish and a
good coat of tan. Although the hard
heads responded but indifferently to
our croakings. we caught IA of them,
all of which were of ample size Best
Of all, six rockf1sh were landed, weigh
ing from three-quarters to four and q
half pounds Capt "Tobe" Shorter,
whom you know eDd who Ia ssnoWn