Evening star., 1935-09-05
Shenandoah Rivers at River
ton are clearing, but still too
cloudy for good. fishing. At
L Harpers Ferry both rivers are

s.
cloudy for good. fishing. At
L Harpers Ferry both rivers are
reported muddy.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were
good days in the bay, that Is, on
Southwest Middles, and many fine
catches were landed. Monday a north
easter started to blow on these we'll
known fishing grounds and Capt. Raub
Drury advises all anglers to wait until
this week end before venturing forth
after the big blues.
Capt L. M. Spriggs reports two good
catches fishing on Southwest Middles
over the holiday. On Sunday his
party, consisting of George Weber,
Alvin Berger, w. B. Rentschellev, S. s.
Buchev and Charles Carey, landed Al
blues weighing from to pounds.
Monday he had in his party Mr.. and
Mrs. Marcy and Mr.. and Mrs. Emory
Marcy Of Cherrydale. Va, and Clay
ton Halt OF this city. They landed
Is blues, also weighing from to z
pounds. Both of these catches were
landed cumming.
Leo ]. Rocca and Gerald p. Flood,
local anglers, had a great time fishing
last Saturday of the mouth of the
Rappahannock River with Capt. Rich
ard Selph at Westland, Va. They
landed two black bonito. one weighing
So and the other rs pounds, which we
think Is record for large fish at
this place. The fish were landed
cumming and 1t took about IS min
utes to bring each one to the boat to
be gated. The larger fish was caught
on a 36-pound-test line. an Ocean City
reel and a two-piece light saltwater
rod. They were loud in their praise Of
Capt Selph, who charged them $40
for 10 hours and supplied the chum.
Capt. Selph can be reached by phone
at Kilmarnock 203. .
Sam Anglin and Robert Rordyce.
local anglers, also fshed for the black
bonito with Capt. Selph on Sunday.
They landed about so small blues
weighing around a pound and Q half
and Anglin hooked and landed a black
bonito tipping the scales at % pounds.
These anglers also chummed and
fshed Of Windmill Light.
THE upper part of Chesapeake Bay
was unproductive Of fish Sunday
from Herring Bay to Cove Point
Light. With Al Ketchum, Herbert r.
Corn and Newman Sudduth. We left
Herring Bay In Ketchum's big boat
early Sunday morning for a trip to
Southwest Middles, q place we never
reached.
We did not see a school Of blues
break the whole day.
There we're no boats out off Herring
Bay at daybreak. We saw two boats
trolling off Chesapeake Beach and We
Joined them for a little while with
out any luck. Of Plum Point we
observed two boats trolling, but after
watching them through binoculars for
a few minutes decided the gulls were
after the alewives, so we proceeded
down the bay and at GAS were trolling
of Cove Point.
We had . little trouble with the
motor and were forced to get the
lighthouse keeper to telephone in to
Solomons Island to send boat to tow
us in. It turned out that We were
a bad lot Of mechanics, for the only
trouble was q wire on our coil which
had broken. and it was fixed in three
minutes. It was then too late to get to
Middles, so we fished with
no luck of Cove Point.
In the afternoon we started back up
the bay and fished on the Gooses,
again without any luck. There were
Is boats on these grounds. but doubt
if any of them had any fish. even
A northeast wind started
to blow in the afternoon and increased
in velocity. After leaving the Gooses
we encountered big waves all the way
that's about all, no fish being landed
except a few hardhard and two trout,
one of them weighing about ~
pounds.
nEFYING weather condition Tues
~ day four Virginia anglers, Judge
william S. Snow, Harry Johnson, John
Brookfield and Eugene Piggett, motor
ed to st. Jeromes Greek for q try at
the blues on Southwest Middles.
Nearing their destination, with Capt.
Raub Druary, jr., in charge. the skies
cleared and the sun was shining
brightly as they first trolled without
success and then started cumming.
Fishing from noon to 5 pm. in
smooth water their total catch was
70 blues weighing from 3l2 to 8
pounds. Harry johnson told us that
he was using a 50-pound test line.
which one of the big fish broke Just
as easily as If it had been thread.
30-pound test line was