Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-24

YAVING had no rain in this Sec
- ton for the Lord knows when,
it goes without saying that the
Potomac, the Shenandoah, the
Monocacy and all their branches are
clear and extremely low. And anglers
for both small and large mouth bass
are at bat now and having big inning
As the season advances larger fish are
being landed. In the month OF Sep
tember q 21k pound bass was consid-
cred good catch. During the present
month the largest bass entered in Rod
and Streams contest is beauty weigh
ing pounds 91a ounces, and instead
of other bass weighing merely az or 8
pounds, varieties weighing 4 and Az
bounds have been landed. The same
condition applies to salt water. Larger
fish are being caught, notably rock, tay-
lors and trout Last month the largest
saltwater fish entered In our contest
weighed pounds heavy. This month
the largest fish entered SO far-and 1t
Is going to be hard to beats rock
fish caught in the bay on the Eastern
Shore weighing 1872 pounds.
In the upper Potomac the small
mouth bass, II the angler Is fortunate
enough to get to the places where they
are hiding, may reward him with good
catches. These gameSterS are being
caught ct Seneca, at Whitewater in the
canal and, in fact, almost everywhere.
But owing to the extremely low water,
unless one Is good at wading, 1t Is i'm
possible to get to the holes where they
are to be found. It can't be done In a
boat, not even in q canoe.
In the lower Potomac the anglers Tor
plymouth bass have been very success
full. The many creeks and coves on the
Virginia side are furnishing good sport,
and on the Maryland side the most
prominent place this Fall is perhaps
Piscataway Creek This creek Is IL
miles below washington-just around
the corner, so to speak, from Fort
Washington. 1t Is easily reached by
taking the road through Anacostia to
Blue Plains, which is an extension of
Nichols avenue. From the District line
1t Is known as Livingston road. The
angler win find when he reaches Fort
Washington plenty of boats and bait.
He can be taken out to the fishing
grounds in the creek by q motor boat.
These boats are all operated by Sergt.
Richardson, who takes very good care
of his patrons All one has to do Is
designate what time he wants to stop
fishing and the sergeant will return and
tow him back to the wharf.
YESTERDAY Patolman Guy Rome OF
i No. IL precinct, accompanied by
Dave Crouch, landed 20 bass on
/ live bait In this creek. They reached
the fishing grounds at 10 am. and flsheo
until $3.50. They certainly had a pretty
string of hsh. Rome told me this morn
ing that last week he and companion
fshed in Broad Greek and landed 81
bass.
There Is one popularity about fishing
in Piscatawsy Greek, and that is there
is no use wetting your line on the food
tide; the fish just won't bite. But when
the tide commences to ebb the bass
| gamesterS are right along the bank OF
the channel, just on the tall sea grass
But when the tide changes and COM
| mences to now In the fish stop biting
and one Is just wasting his time to con-
tinue. know, for have tried them
out on both tides. The ebb tide in this
creek Is just right for the anglers today
Saturday and Sunday. It win be ebbine
all afternoon.
IRON saltwater points in the lower
l. Potomac our reports are very good
indeed. A party Of local angleri
fishing on Palmers, Nd, near Kopel'
Point, said they had wonderful spori
landing rockfish running from 2 to
| pounds, trolling They went out with
Capt L. B. Huntington, inventor Of thu
drone bait, and landed, among othel
! hsh, Is rock, the largest weighing
| pounds. OF course, as Is always the
case, they said the largest got away
Capt. Huntington informed them thai
just as soon as the wind switched from
the northwest to the south he expected
the rock to commence to break anC
furnish excellent sport. These anglers
report that before the recent heavy
northwest winds trout and blues were
caught In large numbers around Kopel,
Point, some anglers returning with q,
many as so or so. The rockfish beinf
caught at the present time are all land
ed trolling deep, with from 16 to "a
ounces Of lead.
TEORGE M. KNIGHT at Leonard.
" town called UP and reported thai
the heavy winds from the north.
west during the past three DAYS have
driven the blues and trout out into the
Bay, but that the cold weather ha,
brought large numbers Of rockfish intC
the waters around Leonardtown, Piney
Polnt, TAN T1mberS and all the way uI
to River Springs, located Just below
Rock Point. He said that these rock
are biting we'll Tuesday Capt. Trott
landed 48 rock, weighing from 2 to {
pounds, trolling around Piney Point
He said that trout and blues are bein,
caught trolling of Point Lookout in thu
Bay, about 2 miles off shore, and tina
both species are running very large.
Over on the Eastern Shore Capt
Daniel P. Ball, after a long silence
writes: 1T has been sometime since
have written to you, but have sen
you some reports by Washington par
ties fishing over here. Last Sunday
october 10, I had party of three from
Baltimore and tried trolling, but 1t wa
not so good; had much better luck still
fishing, landing IS trout, some of then
weighing pounds. We lost several BIZ
fish, one of the party losing drum
Fish seems to be plentiful"
FOLLOWING Capt. George N
l. Bowen's report last week of tn
splendid fishing down at Solomon
Island, could not resist the temptation
to motor down Saturday evening wit
Bob Pyle. Early Sunday morning, lon
before the sun rose, we had our lines Il
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