Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-26
NGLERs are having a good old

~ time landing large-mouth bass
| ~ in Piscataway Greek and Gun
ston Cove, according to reports
received from Seret. Richardson at Fort
Washington and Capt Aubrey Shepard
at Gunston Cove
A goodly number of anglers visited
Piscataway Greek during last week and
all got fair returns, one hooking 7 Of
these gamesters.
-Four anglers at Gunston Cove caught
10 bass, OF which II were landed by one
man. There are q large number Of
ducks in the cove and Capt. Shepard
has two blinds for those desiring to
shoot.
I made a special trip last week to
talk with Capt J. L. Goldsborough
about rock fishing in the lower Potomac.
Capt Goldsborough Is the man who
had unusual luck guiding fishermen to
places In the lower Potomac in quest
of these gamesters during the last Sum-
mer and Fall.
He told me he had not been fishing
for two weeks; that cold weather had
held back the anglers. but undoubtedly
,, be all Winter. One needed to hunt for
them. he said, inasmuch as they were
not on the feeding grounds where they
were earlier in the season.
George Knight at Leonardtown tells
us that only few anglers have been
out recently, but that a goodly number
engaged boats for Yesterday and today
He said rockfish were being landed off
Tall Timbers and around Blackstone
Island. We repeat that those anglers
who do not mind the cold can stil
catch either bass In fresh water or
striped bass or rockfish in salt water
in the lower Potomac.
a BOUT 25, 900 chinook or red salmon
~ eggs were received last week by
the Bureau of Fisheries of Chi
cago from The Columbia River IN Wash.
shipped to the New YORK Aauarium-
last Year re when the eeas We're hatcSed
and the fish reached the lingering
stage. 5000 were placed in Maryland
and 5000 In Virginia streams tributary
to Chesapeake Bay. with the hope by
officials of the Bureau of Fisheries they
would return In two years to deposit
their spawn. Those liberated last year
were the pink salmon. The red salmon
eggs Just received will be Matched at
the bureau and will be on exhibition
These red salmon take four years to
return to the streams in which they
were planted. and it will be interesting
to watch this experiment and see il
these fish can be raised on the Atlantic
as well as on the Pacific Coast.
The red salmon released last year
tot frt,A - - Z -
and the pink salmon Just received reach
a weight of from 20 to 40 pounds. Both
species are wonderful fighters when
hooked, and If the Bureau Of Fisheries
is successful, it will mean plenty Of
sport for the followers Of old Izaak
Walton
The annual seining of holes in the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from Great
Falls to the Frederick County line began
Friday under the direction Of w. Car
roll Waters, chief deputy game warden
for Montgomery County.
The work this year is being sponsored
by the Rockville Chapter OF the Izaak
Walton League and all large mouth
bass and crappie taken will be planted
in an 8-mile stretch of water above
Seneca, provided by the construction
Of a dam across the canal at Seneca
All small-mouthed bass will be trans
ferred to the Potomac River and all
catfish, eels, carp and other varieties
will be distributed among all applying
The seining Is being done by force Of
eight men.
Creation of the Smile stretch by
construction Of the dam Is the FIRST big
project of the Rockville Chapter Of the
league. It Is expected to provide fine
fishing In the not distant future, espe-
cially as 1t Is planned to obtain thou
sands Of large-mouth bass from the