Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06

| ~ EFT ready, you anglers, for the
eleventh annual outing of the
Y i Washington, d. c., Chapter OF
| the Izaak Walton League of
America to Chesapeake Beach on Sun
day, September %. The committee in
charge invites all to compete for the
many handsome prizes to be awarded
for the best catches of various classes
of Ash. No prizes will be awarded for
cells, toadfish, skates, sharks or turtles.
! A special train will leave the District
| line at $3.50 am reaching the beach at
$50 O'Clock. Capt. Noah Hazard has
promised to have a large feet of motor
boats on hand There will be fishing
| and grabbing from the pier for those
who do not want to go out on the
bay.
All fish entered for prizes must be
caught on hook and line after the
arrival OF the excursion upon the nsn-
| ing grounds. Fish must be presented
to the committee for weighing IN on tne
pier at pm. If no fish OF any given
class are caught, the prizes will be
awarded to other CLASSES.
| Only those having the return coupons
of the Chesapeake Beach Railway ex-
cursion ticket or a coupon which may
| be obtained for 25 cents from the COM
mittee are eligible for prizes.
And right now is a good time to
explain briefly what the local chapter
| of the I. w. L. A. stands for. First and
| foremost to promote and protect the
interests of the anglers in the Potomac
River and It's tributaries to cooperate
with the Federal and State authorities
| in the enforcement of the fish protec-
| tive laws; to aid in every legitimate
manner the conservation and increase
of game and fish; to secure the enact
ment of license laws for anglers; to
support the objects of the Izaak Wal
| ton League of America and assist in
every way to restore our waters TO their
normal condition, which means a night
to finish on pollution.
IRON reports received from the vari-
il Gus salt water fishing grounds the
last week, the anglers on this outing
are bound to catch fish. Fish are every
where in the bay and its tributaries.
The only thing to mar the day would
be a heavy blow. A rain or even a
downpour. without wind, viii make
little or no difference to the dyed-in-
the-wool anglers.
A H. G. MEARS, at Waehapreague.
"A. Va, landed three channel bass
and lost three fishing wednesday.
and another party landed two, he re-
ports, with big croakers. founders, sea
bass, trout and some blues being Caught
also. Mears is offering the following
prizes: Largest channel bass, $50 rod;
| largest trout or weak. $25 rod.
And have a postal from Bob VIII
son. well known local angler, who is
visiting Wachapreague this week. He
says he. struck in after q northeaster-
not SO good for the fisher folks.
r Asst Sunday I directed several par
IL ties to different fishing grounds,
telling them the fish we're biting in
great style. One of the parties re-
turned and said: You are a great one
to tell us fishing was good at SolomCns
Island. We fished late one evening and
early the next morning and caught
nothing" This particular party fished
Saturday night and Sunday. On Mon
day another party, fishing at the same
place, caught 400 fish, weighing 1857
pounds. They landed trout, bluefish,
hardheads and ore small shark. The
largest trout was 6 pounds and the
heaviest bluef1sh pounds.
T HAD the same experience at Rock
Point last Sunday and Monday.
Accompanied by DR. Magee presi-
dent of the Washington, d. c., Chapter
of the I. w. L. A., I motored to
Rock Point Sunday afternoon. There
was a pretty good breeze blowing from
the southeast and the water was
rough. We caught only a few small
perch. Fishermen down at the Point
said they had been making good catches
OF trout, some taylors and rockfish, but
that the water was too rough on Sum
day to get any results. l returned to
the Point on Labor Day. We found
the water smooth and felt SIRE of