Evening star., 1931-12-14


there is still something lacking if the
streams are not kept in decent condi-
tion to receive the young hopefuls. 1t
goes without saying that grossly pol
luted waters are a menace to the fish
and reproach to the fisherman. Prob
ably the greatest stake in clean water
is the public health, but the interests
Of the angler are secondary only to the
public health feature"
THE United States Bureau of Fish
l. eIies, cooperating with the Mary
land Conservation Department and
the Rockville Chapter Of the I. w. L..
A., recently finished seining the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal in Montgomery
Country.
The bureau reports that the greater
number Of black bass were yearlings, s
to inches in length, not many a-ultS
and very few fingerlings.
TIE restocking was in Whitewater
trea!ly a part of the cana!-51 small
mouth bass, 102 large mouth, 25 crap
pie, 1,009 Dream (blue gills) and War
mouth bass; in the Potomac River 1874
small-mouth, 608 large-mouth, 80 crap
pie, 3,l34 Dream and 80 Yarmouth bass.
This is an annual operation, started
several years ago, but last year was the
first year that Whitewater was restocked.
THE Sandy Spring Chapter of the I.
L w. L. recently received another
shipment of large-mouth bass from
the Bureau of Fisheries. During the
past year the Sandy Spring Chapter
has been actively engaged in planting
many fish in the PatuXent. Its first
planting consisted of 1000 small-mouth
bass, its second planting was 5000
perch, and yesterday it received more
than 500 large-mouth bass and Dream.
The work of the Sandy Spring Chap
ter should be an inspiration to all chap
tiers of the league in this section.
DoNALD N. CARPENTER, local ang-
II Ter, recently returned from a fish
ing trip to the Florida Keys, where
he found spot that he calls the
anglers heaven" The place is Pirates
Cove fishing camp. He caught fish
weighing from to 300 pounds and
hooked some sharks which tipped the
scales at as much as 1,100 and 1900
pounds.
The fish landed by Carpenter in
cluded, among Others barracuder, yel-
low jack. muttonfish, grouper family,
gray snapper, yellow tril, houndflsh,
ten-pounder. grunts and what not.
He caught fish every day, sometimes
battling with big tarpon or a big
shark for more than an hour.
THE fight of sportsmen against the
L legalized commercial netting. and
shipment Of black bass in Florida
has taken many forms, but, according
to officials of the American Game As
sociation, the latest move may have
eip %toy J,
in "converting' the Florida Legislature
to the belief that bass are worth more
on an anglers hook than on the market
counter.
E. G. Kemper, chairman of the Bass
Protective Committee of the Washing
ton Chapter Of the I. w. L. A. and an
ardent fisherman, wrote this open letter
to houseboat owner in Florida:
Il confess that you arouse a very
strong desire on my part to go fishing
on your boat in the st. Johns River.
HoWever-and I will be perfectly
frank with you'll have made up my
mind to do my Winter fishing else
where so long as the State of Florida is
shipping more than 700 tons of black
bass each year to Northern markets.
Furthermore, am bringing this con-
dition of affairs in Florida to the atten-
ton of every sportSmen's organization
can here in the North, in every case
advising sportsmen to go to other States
than Florida to spend their money and
get their hunting and fishing until
Florida does some housecleaning and
puts stop to the netting and shipping
Of bass"
E. c. Kemper is known as the father
Of black bass legislation in the District
Of Columbia.