Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-03

TINE year 1881 treated the anglers
very kindly, furnishing them
with many different species of
fish, and as parting FLIP
presented q local angler, member
Of the judiciary of the District, nsh-
ing in Piscataway Creek few days
before Christmas, with II nice large
mouth bass. This Is no fish story,
being vouched for by a member OF
the press who received several OF the
bass for his table.
The open Winter with its lack OF
ice largely is responsible for SO many
fish being caught at the present time.
Trout we're caught in the Lower Poto-
mac during the first part of December
and a report from North Carolina
states around Oregon inlet channel
bass still are being landed, an almost
unheard of thing at this time OF the
year.
Trout, blues and rockfiSh furnished
excellent sport during the past season.
The trout made their appearance in
the waters Of the bay as early as June
Is, and as the season progressed larger
ones were caught. The largest trout
reported taken by rod and reel angler
was caught in the Lower Potomac and
weighed 1872 pounds. Big blues, run
n ng true to form, broke many lines and
carried away numerous lures in both
the bay and the Lower Potomac. During
the latter part of November local anglers
reported that rockfish around Thigh
mans and Sharp's Islands, across the
bay on the Eastern Shore, also were
doing things to their fishing tackle,
breaking lines, etc. In fact one angler
reported seeing rockflsh weighing as
much as 40 pounds breaking water In
the Lower Potomac off Tall Timbers,
Palmers and as far upstream as Rock
Point many fine rock were landed.
MANY inquiries have been received
lVl by Rod and Stream concerning
the pond just east of the railroad
bridge across the Potomac that has
been left by the building of the Mount
Vernon Boulevard. They wanted to
know If it was necessary to have a
Virginia fishing license to fish in this
pond. We took the matter up with
Judge william S. Snow of Alexandria,
who also is a member of the Commits
sion of Inland Fisheries of Virginia
Judge Shows reply was that this pond
was in Virginia territory and that a
license was absolutely necessary to fish
in its waters and that he had so in
structed his wardens. This pond is
on Federal territory, but it is located
in Virginia, and the Virginia fishing
law rules its waters.
The Washington, D. c., Chapter of
the Izaak Walton League of America
has increased the scope of its activities
by the organization of casting club
This club held its initial meeting last
Saturday at the rejecting pool, at the
foot of Seventeenth street. George
Cook, ex-champion fly and bait caster,
was on hand to show the members
some of the fine points in the art of
casting, These instruction classes will
be held every Saturday afternoon and
it is hoped that in comparatively short
time the members will become proficient
in the art of casting and that tourna-
ments can be arranged with other cities
THE Star recently printed a story
J. about no provision being made to
care for the fish to be placed in
the SO new aquariums and third-fioor
pools in the Bureau of Fisheries new
quarters in the new Department of
Commerce Building. 1t is hard to un
derstand just why such an appropria-
ton asked for by the bureau was not
granted by the Bureau Of the Budget,
The Bureau of Fisheries, unless money
is appropriated to care for the fish it
now has, one of which, a sturgeon, is
IS years old, will be compelled to lib
crate them in the waters OF the Poto-
mac. The bureau moved into its new
quarters week ago. 1t will have lots
of new aquariums for the fishes, but few
of them will be filled. This condition
is more deplorable because of the fact
that this year hundreds Of thousands
Of visitors will be sightseeing here and,
unless the money is appropriated for
the maintenance Of the new fish and