Evening star., 1932-08-22
ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER

and fined large sums, approximately
81. 900 each. The fishermen lost their
jobs. and you will find the attitude
of these men is utterly opposed to en-
gaging in such practices.
Il am forwarding you today O copy
of the Northumberland Echo. which
contains an article about trap-hshing
in the lower bay where most OF the
menhaden purse netting is done. You
will observe from the article that there
is no scarcity of hook and line species
in the lower bay and from the reports
of anglers coming to you and to me
there is apparently no scarcity in the
Lower Potomac River where these boats
have been operating recently. The
catch of blue fish, trout and hardheads
around Smiths Point at the mouth OF
the Potomac River has been unbelleV-
ably good during the entire season, and
only last week an acquaintance OF mine,
fishing from Ragged Point to the mouth
of the river reported that his expert
ence was not how many fish one could
catch but how long one could last
catching them in such numbers.
This letter is prompted by my sense
of fair play, and ! am at this time
neither directly nor indirectly inter
ested in any way in the menhaden
IlSIllIlR DuSlIltSS. Dub my hAic"iSobS VA
conditions puts me in position to
speak authoritatively on the subject"
NNE of the most interesting expert
" ences On a piscatorial outing comes
to us through a letter received
from William H. Klotz Of 9l8 Twenty
third street northwest, as follows:
Saturday night. August IS. with a
party of friend fishermen, We showed
off from Kenwood Beach. Md. Gov
ernors Rum, for a try at blues. trout,
hardheads and whatnot. After an
hours fishing, during which time
number of good size trout and hard
heads were landed. l got good strike,
and feeling that I had the fish hooked.
I began reeling in. and ell at once my
line became unusually slack as II the
fish was running toward the boat At
the same time l noticed the fisherman
nearest me pulling his line in, and he
remarked he was just pulling in for
hook inspection and said he believed
his line was entangled with some other
line. We both pulled up at the same
time, and what appeared to be tangled
| lines was a three-pourd nardhead with
hook of my line and a hook Of his
| line both hooked in the same fish's
mouth, cne in the upper lip and one
in the lower lip. The captain Of the
boat of long bav experience, could not
recall Q similar incidence. Members Of
| the party included George Shipman, c.
McCleary. Robert Fensler. Raymond
! Taynor, Maurice Hays and myself Nc
Cleary was the angler who partici-
pated in the double catch. He resides
at $50 Twenty-fifth street northwest.
What things do happen when fishing!"
EISH sure must be hitting almost
i everywhere. Here's another letter
which says Just a word for the
! fishermen who have been so disappoint-
ed the past several years. With two
OF my friends I made trip to Piney
Point Sunday and again Tuesday. On
each trip we landed over a hundred
good size fish, mostly trout and blues.
From many other reports of good
catches, II seems the purse netters had
been doirg their damage in the past
years. This letter was signed Louis
Kousen.
This letter bears out Judge Shows
contention that the Virginia boats are
not takinr any food fish in the Lower
Potomac River