Evening star., 1934-05-22

l. even blues - are fast max
ing their way to nearby salt
water, according to reports re-
Ceived by this column. OF
course, the best reports are from fish,
ing grounds along the Maryland, Vlr-
ginia and North Carolina Coasts,
where fishes are reported plentiful.
! but several excellent catches have
been made in Chesapeake Bay with
. hook and line. At Deal Island ap
proximately 800 pounds of hardhead.
sea trout and blues were landed last
week. To show that the hardhead
are making their way upstream in
large numbers, they are offered on
the market at 81 and $1.50 a box,
which is dirt cheap. Sea trout are
being landed in the nets of the COM
mercial fishermen off Tilghman Is
land along with thousands of hard
head. l am of the opinion that many
hardhead will be landed today in the
Bay and its tributaries.
THE Potomac is in splendid fishing
condition today and a few pan
rockfsh are being landed. The
white perch are still in the swift
waters. but not so numerous as they
were several weeks ago.
In the lower Potomac from Rock
Point down to Point Lookout, small
catches of hardhead are reported, and
some rockflSh are being landed. Soft
she'll crabs have put in their appear
ance and are selling for IS cents a
dnzar lint he
Capt. Noah Hazard at Galesville re-
ports that he will have five boats
ready for the anglers next Saturday.
They are now being put in spick-and-
span condition. His charges this sea-
son will be $40 a day, which includes
Bloody Point across the Bay, S12 to
Poplar Island and SIS to Sharps
Island.
He said he has been landing plenty
of hardhead in his nets, and also had
caught a 5-pound blue, one tipping the
scales at 3la pounds and another at
2la pounds. Last Friday morning he
said he landed seven sea trout in his
nets. but asked me to have it dis
tinctly understood that these trout
and blues were not landed with hook
and line.
Every Saturday evening this Sum-
mer Capt. Hazard will start one of
his boats for an all-night fishing
trip returning at o'clock Sunday
morning. The cost on this trip will
be 81 a head.
Capt. Hazard informs us that the
bay is fairly alive with alewives. He
said he could land tons of these fish,
so relished by blues and trout. Unless
all signs fail, he said, anglers will
have a wonderful season. He con-
cluded his report by saying if his
parties did not catch from his boats
week from tomorrow he would
charge half price for the trips.
r! ARGE numbers of salt water fish,
L. namely, hardhead, sea trout and
blues are being landed in the nets of
Eastern Shoremen and one report
states that good catches are being
made off Governors Run on our side
of the bay.
Blues and sea trout are reported
being caught in good numbers at
Wachapreague, Va, and the channel
bass and blues are furnishing excel
lent sport at oregon Inlet.
A report from James D. Jarman at
Ocean City, Md, says the blues have
started to bite off Ocean City; that
Crawford Savage and party caught
48 large blues averaging 6 pounds.
Capt. L. B. Huntington and G. w.
Rounds landed SIS blues on the same
day, all big ones, around 6 pounds,
and that on Tuesday of last week
Mayor and Mrs. McCabe of ocean
City with Crawford Savage made
catch of 80 blues. c. E. Little of
Laurel. Md. was a member of this
fishing party.
Jarman said the severe storm of
last August probably was a blessing
in disguise, as it cut an inlet right
at the south end of the boardwalk
from the ocean to the bay, opening
a new field for fishing. Boat cap
tains now have high-powered engines
in up-to-date yachts that reach the
fishing grounds in from IS to 20
minutes. On these grounds blues are
now biting and will continue until
around August 20; porgies now taking
bait will continue to be caught all
Summer until the last of September;
sea trout or weakfish will start biting
June l and continue all SunfS
mer. and last, but not least, the