Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER.

| 200 hardheads and some trout, ranging
from 2 to S pounds.
A party of anglers fishing off Sharps
Island Light Thursday night, landed 1Ol
hardheads and IL trout. They started
fishing at pm. and stopped at 10.
! They used peeler crabs as bait.
Capt Noah Hazards fishing trips
of the Eastern Shore are reported to
be very successful Last Sunday wheel
barrels were required to bring the
catches of trout and hardheadS of the
dock
Another Eastern Shore fishing trip
will be made next Sunday. The large
seago!ng motor boats Irene and Anna
will leave the pier at 1890 am. and
return at pm
On our side of the bay the best
| catches reported come from Solcmons
Island Capt George Bowen reports
that last Tuesday the fish commenced
to bite again following the recent heavy
thunderStorms.
| He reports that last Tuesday Capt.
Hayden and a party of five anglers
from Landau, Frederick County, fish
ing off Cedar Point, landed rs trout
and hardheads.
Capt. James Webster, fishing off
Lighthouse Lump, landed IA trout,
weighing from to 5 pounds.
! Capt. Deboy and party Of three
anglers from Wheeling, w. Va. landed
! 80 hardsheads and trout, the largest
trout weighing 534 pounds.
: Capt. Preston WOODBURY. and a party
of Baltimore anglers landed 100 pounds
of hardheads and trout.
Judge Snow and a party fishing this
week off Cedar Point in one of Capt.
Rackar's boats landed 26 trout, Is
hardheads and two blues.
Another party at Solomons landed
SO fish-l8 hardheads, II spot and
4 trout.
Local anglers returning from the
lower Potomac around the mouth Of
the river report there was nothing
doing In the fishing line last week end.
One angler fished off Piney Point. Tall
! Timbers and Ragged Point Friday
night Saturday morning and evening
and again Sunday morning and did
not catch a thing.
George Knight however, who covers
! the lower Potomac for us. reports that
some good catches of fish were made
off BlackiStones Island. He said q
Washington party landed 275 fish-spot,
hardheads and a few trout-and that
Capt. Thomas Trott with a party #
Baltimore doctors, fishing in the mouth
of Brettons Bay. made a nice catch
of roc':fish weighing from to pounds.
Another party at Barnes Point,
located between Blackstone light and
Pinev Point, landed a catch of 80 fish,
on~isting of spots perch. hardhcads
end one trout. These anglers used as
bait peeler crabs and blocdworms.
Curtis Walker Writes in as Follows.
Dear Mr.. Miller
II have enjoyed reading your articles
on fishing very much, and thought you
aiOka Al ho inf n
fishing that was a party to this last
weed end.
Howard Duckett, DR.. Benjamin G.
Perry, Norman Brown and Henry Mar
tin we're my guests at my farm, Point
No-Point.
ION Saturday between 1880 am. and
pm. we caught seven large trout, two
small trout, six large hardheads and
several small hardheadS and NorfolK
spots. On Sunday between IL noon
and pm. we caught II large trout
and two small trout, six large hard
heads one taylor and six or seven spots.
LAS a whole the fishing was spotty,
it being necessary to weigh anchor
three or four times each day.
I'VE fished about one-half mile south
of Point-No-Point lighthouse, in abops
25 feet of water. Not being able to
secure any peelers we used soft shell
of the spots we had caught"
It is not often that party Ct four
women 20 fishing without a male escort,
but Helen Hughes, Bobby" Denis,
Bessie ONeal and Mrs. Anne Jarboe
did last week. These enthusiasts fished
off Cedar Point Lighthouse and landed
40 fish, one trout measuring 80 inches
and another 81 inches. They used
peeler crabs.
T. r. Pickett of Bethesda, Md, writes
In asking if it would be possible to find
space to print the actual condition Of
the Potomac waters, from a point above
Great Falls down to tidewater.
Rod and Stream will publish the con-
dition of the water at Great Falls
every Friday.