The Washington times., 1933-08-11

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While every angler reports
trout and blues in their hauls,
the hardheads still make up the
bulk of them. The trout are
evidently schooling, for when
fishermen come across them they
usually drag IN IS or 20 OF them.
The blues are scattered, fall
ing prey to their pursuers at
wide intervals. However, many
schools of them have been sight
ed breaking off shore as far
up the bay as Fairhaven, but
anglers have had only mediocre
success in landing them.
Variety is found in the lower
bay from Point No Point around
to Piney Point in the lower Po-
tomac. Hardheads, of course,
lead in numbers in that expanse
of water, too. but the most i'm
pressive trout catches are re-
ported from there. as we'll as
the finest reaping of bluefish.
Black sea-bass. large spots, perch
and rockfish also figure in the
news. It is the ideal spot for
trollers as we'll as still-fishermen.
Hardheads swarm the waters
in the bay just outside of the
mouth of the Patuxtent. Plenty
are being bagged all the way up
to Herring Bay, and across at
Sharps Island, the mouth of the
Choptank and the Gooses, and
further north in the neighbor-
hood of Bloody Point Light.
Stand Out Catch
One of the stand-out Bloody
Point catches of the season was
made by L. B. Sleet, Harry Huro-
witz. Lar MCGOWAN, John Smith
and Herbert Leahman Sunday
night, when they yanked in 165
beauties, many of them weighing
tfour pounds.
Francis Moreland and James
Blackney and several friends
fished the upper bay from Shady
Side to Bloody Point, with only
measly results for several hours
Saturday. They landed only 10
hardheads and five trout, but all
were big, one trout weighing over
four pounds. Moreland relates
that on one of their stops they
yanked in ten toadfish in about
10 minutes, without even sighting
any other species.
eve hurried away from there
FAST" MOreland states.
Harry Ford and Roger Barker
waylaid 40 large hardheads off
Seaside, near the channel buoy,
Monday night. They also dragged
in one trout, a four and a half
pound brute. Ed Brookes, Jack
Smith. Walter Stomble and Frank
Harper picked up about 40 hard
heads and two small trout below
Seaside, off the Red Top, Satur-
day night.
E. T. Thomas, 'Nicky" Nichol-
son and William Hardesty, the
latter deputy sheriff, bagged a
half hundred hardheads, a couple
of trout and blues in Herring Bay
Monday night on shrimp and
peelers.
Unknown Fish
They had a fish in the catch
which none Of them could iden-
tify, though all are seasoned
fishermen.
ut was about eight inches
long," Thomas described it,
land .OOked like a trout, with
mouth like bluefish. Its body
was spotted all over"
The uncertainty of fishing was
convincingly illustrated by a
party out in Herring Bay Tues
day. They went out Tuesday
morning and returned with nary
a finSter. They tried it again
after sundown, and came back
with a nifty haul. all big.
John and Bud" Locher, Char
ley Scott, John Kerns, Roy Hood,
Charley White, Pat Scales, Mat
thew Kerns, Charles Brooks, both
senior and Junior, and George
Cousins slipped up on some 300
hardheads in six hours fishing
off Kenwood Beach Saturday
night.
A group of anglers state that
they found the boatmen very un-
accommodating and argumenta-
tive at Shady Side. and it spoiled
their trip. those in the party
were Teddy and Archie Zimmer-
man. Mickey 0inar, Irving Gar
finkle, Morty Felkner, Aleck Del
| lavale, Steve Mantzouris, Charley