The Washington times., 1931-09-12
GROUP OF ANGLERS MAKES RECORD CATCH IN PA
FISH CAUGHT
! IAFTERLONG
WAIT
BY GINO SINH

Time and tide waits for no
man.
You can add fish to the list
and be perfectly safe.
AS always, fishing information
must be taken with a huge grain
of salt, for, no matter how ex.
perienced or conscientious a fish
reporter may be. there is no GER
tainty that fish will continue to
stay in any one place for any
length of time.
Last weeks reports proved this
fact beyond suspicion OF doubt.
The case Of Ellis Conn, who
nevers misses a weekend on the
Patuxent, will best illustrate the
moral, condition, or what you
want to call It.
Conn, with his brother, Bene-
dict, and John Zevely, well-known
motor-boat enthusiast, spent the
greater part Of Sunday rowing
around the Patuxent and caught
one trout. Monday morning. they
continued their excursions and
caught absolutely nothing.
Feared for Boat
But Monday afternoon, around
5 O'Clock, they went out again and
caught three bushel baskets full
in less than two hours! In fact,
they were pulling them in so fast
and so big that they had to stop
for fear that the weight Of the
fish would sink the small row.
boat!
Conn, a fisherman Of long
experience, stated emphatically
that it was the biggest catch he
had ever made in his life. Conn,
Zevely and Bob Penna made
another trip to the Patuxent
Wednesday and caught two and
Q half baskets more.
Another case is reported by Lou
Steiner. He, Ollie Atlas, Charles
Cohen and Harry Grossman, went
out on the Eastern Shore and
fished around Sharp'S Island,
Choptank and Broad Rivers and
caught one trout and one blue
fish. Last week they had been
biting fine there.
Steiner heard of a party who
fiShed all down the Eastern
shores and around up the Allan
tic coast to Reheboth Beach, TAX
ing seven days. and only caught
hatful. Bob Mullinix. how
ever, spent a week at Wacha.
preague and Ocean City and
caught over 400, though all rather
small. He didn't get any channel
bass, though.
Bill Pralle, Frank Giro and the
Voight brothers slipped over to
Montecake River and hauled
away 81 nice looking trout, 40
white perch, hardheads and
spots, last Sunday.
BOwlerS Unlucky
w. A. Mikeljohn, Ken Brown,
John Brin and Charley Hoppel re-
turned with more than 100 trout
from Kopel's Point, but Frank
Delvecchio had terrible luck.
BOwlers had poor luck, too,
Brad Mandley, Mac McPrOudy,
Joe BOlin and Bobby Williams
went to Piney Point for no good
reason. OunCie Harrison, Paul
SkelIv and George Harvey,
junior pin aces, were bound for
Point Lookout but had no luck.
Trolling has been very good
around there.
Bob Estes and family fished
around North Beach and caught
half.dozen founders and one big
blue. Dave Cohen covered a lot
of water around Colonial Beach
but had only eight fish in two
days.
Joe Burrows and a friend did a
little "chumming" at Galesv1lle
and caught seven husky taylors
Blues were caught at Herring
Bay. L. B. Jome, Tim Roderick,
r. H. Rudderforth, Dave San
uuist and Mr.. Waugh caught 235
fish at Kopel's Point, 80 large
trout and 1879 big spots.
George King and thre friends
bailed in a washtub full Of trout
at Piney Point. averaging between
2 and ~ pounds.
So there you have it, people
that's your fishing racket.