Evening star., 1932-08-28
ROD AND STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER

gills, crappie, speckled perch, ETC.. and
there Is also a section of the property
which will be utilized for the propa-
cation of trout.
HARRY E. HAY of Clarendon. Va,
i who owns Summer cottage on
the shores of Herring Bay, has
sent us a copy Of letter he sent to
Commissioner Swepson Earle of the
Maryland Conservation Department,
expressing his appreciation of the ac-
tion of Maryland in stopping purse
netting in the bav and Tho good re-
suits obtained fishing this ,ar as the
result of this law. His letter follows:
Dear Mr. Earle:
For some days have been feeling
strong urge to take the time to write
you relative to the subject of this letter.
have been very anxious, indeed, to tell
you what a wonderful thing has hap
pened in the Chesapeake Bay waters
seemingly overnight, one might almost
say.
Il refer to the remarkably quick come
back of good fishing in the bay waters
adjacent to washington, D. c., since
the abolition of the destructive purse
net fishing, which. by Maryland law,
came to an end last November.
Il was lured to the bay region by the
splendid saltwater fishing I enjoyed
the very first trip I happened to make
to the western shore of Chesapeake Bay
on my trip there 10 years ago. For the
following two years after my first trip
to the bay the fishing appeared to hold
more or less good. Then I began to
notice a gradual falling off in the size
of the catches with each passing year,
until the fishing became so exceedingly
hot L.
to go out on the water, as there was
nothing to catch That, at least, is the
experience of those followers of the rod
and reel who attempted to enjoy fish
ing on the west side of the bay. The
purse netters with their havoc-playing
nets, had combed the waters so effect
ually with their deadly equipment that
attempting to fish in the bay with rod
and reel was only mockery
But, wonder Of wonders, the fish are
back again! AS If by magic, the big
hardheads, trout and bluefish are biting
| freely once more on the old fishing
| grounds of the bay. There can be no
| explanation Of the present fine catches
of these much-prized fish except the
absence of the hated purse net"
TIED PICKETT relates an interesting
l. experience:
Recently had the thrill that
comes once in lifetime. Wade
TySinger invited Fred Niccum and my
| self down to his cottage on the Po-
tomac just below Brettons Bay to fish.
About 3 pm. we started out for sand
bar No. l, which is about one mile
! from shore. Here we anchored for
about an hour at flood tide. We caught
33 hardheads that were worth taking to
shore, the largest weighing about one and
| one-half pounds. At 7 o'clock we
bar No. q The tide was going out at
pretty fast clip. While was throw
| ing out the anchor and waiting for
the boat to settle, Niccum made a cast
and the sinker no sooner hit the bot
tom when a taylor struck. And Mic
cum, after lively tusSle, succeeded
in bringing him to the edge of the boat
where Tysinger stood ready with the
net but before he could get the net
under him, the fish sawed the leader
in two. Good by, taylor.
'At this instant cast my line about
| 30 yards from the BOAT, and L don't
think the Coz. sinker had touched bot
| tom when was almost displaced by a
strike that ran out about 20 yards of
| line, and after 10 minutes of real work
I succeeded in bringing my catch to
the boat. Tysinger was again ready
with the net. He dipped under him
and started to raise him into the boat
when we found out that we had an
extra FISH on the bottom hook. Here's
where the thrill came in The top
hook had a taylor on 1t that weighed
215 pounds and the bottom HOOK had a
hardhead on it that weighed 3l4
pounds. Can you blame me for get
ting eXcited!"
A FISHING party composed of Jack
IA DELPHI, Milton Gordon, Tony Ge-
nero, Charlie Staining and Al
Bullock made remarkable catch OF
blues Friday morning off North Beach
These anglers, trolling, landed 1872
They left Capt. Oscar Marshall's pier
about am. and returned at 10 am
F. Kitchener reports that his IA
year-old son landed 213-pound
founder while fishing in Herring Bay
last week.
HOCKEY TEAM SHIFTS.