Evening star., 1935-08-01

kST HAVE fished everywhere in
nearby salt water and along
the ocean, and I have never
Il seen as many blues breaking
water as I saw Monday night of the
mouth Of the Patuxent River" said
Milton Gordon, one of Washington's
leading anglers. today. They were
all over the water and still were
jumping, some Of them beauties
weighing at least pounds, when We
stopped fishing" this angler told US.
Ferdinand Ney. Gordon's fishing COM
panion. said: When the sun went
down and it became dark you would
have thought there were horses play
ing about in the bay. never saw
anything like it,"
These two anglers went out about 6
pm. with Capt Eddy Bowen and just
before dark saw the blues on the sur
face. They trolled and landed only
three Of them, and then still-fshed,
hooking IS hardhead, and Gordon
tells us he landed prize, a hardhead
that weighed close to pounds, the
largest ne ever caught. AS the eve
ming wore on, they said, the blues
continued to break and were break
ing when they left at $50.
This is the third such report we
have received about the blues of
Solomons Island.
THE blues fast are making their
way up the bay to nearby salt
water According to John Madigan,
who flShed Sunday morning OF SEarps
Island with Capt. Miles Haddaway,
these gaTnesters were breaking water
from Sharps Island all the way to
Jefferson Island. better known as Pop
lar Island. Madigan said he landed 13
blues, weighing around Az pounds
each, using a No. Huntington drone.
Monday morning he was on the water
again and this time not blue was
to be seen, but he said, There must
have been millions of them. I never
saw anything like it. They stayed
on the surface for three hours"
Capt. c. F. Willoughby was in town
this morning and called to give us the
latest report from st. Jerome's Greek
and Southwest Middles. He informs
us that the trap nets in the mouth of
st. Jerome'S Greek are landing large
numbers of beautiful sea trout in 20
feet of water, the majority of them
weighing around 5 pounds each, and
that some are being picked up by
the anglers.
The water, he said, was very rough
last Saturday on Southwest Middles
and comparatively few blues landed.
Sunday he reported the water was in
much better condition and one boat
fishing back of No. "A buoy, close to
Holland Point Light, made catch of
26. the largest weighing 7l2 pounds.
There were 80 boats on these grounds
Sunday.
7 OUIS L. LOUFT, like lot of other
anglers, has his own fishing spot
and swears by it. Last Sunday he Wis
tied these grounds with Miss Celia
Kartzinel and landed two cabio or
black bonito, Louft's fish weighing 40
pounds and the one landed by Miss
Kartzinel tipping the scales at IS.
They hooked 10 of these fighters. but
of them either we're lost when
being gated or broke their lines. 1t
took Miss Kartzinel % minutes to land
her prize and Louft's fish battled him
25 minutes. They fished off Windmill
Point Light of the mouth of the Rap
pahannock River, about miles out in
the bay. They also landed blues,
weighing about 212 pounds each and
two sharks, weighing 10 and Is pounds.
Miss Kartzined showed her piscatorial
art when the big fish broke her rod
at the reel seat. She landed him just
the same. These two lucky anglers