Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14
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49, BY PERRY MlLAER=Nesssx@

A THOUGH the Potomac and
" Shenandoah Rivers were clear
~ yesterday they can change
4 N within a few hours, particu-
larry the Shenandoah. At Riverton,
where converge the north and south
forks OF the Shenandoah, a thunder
storm can muddy one or the other in
short order. I have seen one stream
perfectly clear and the other very
muddy at the same time.
Talbot Denmead. chief Of the
Black Bass Division of the Bureau Of
Fisheries, asserts he has been getting
splendid reports from anglers using
Maryland streams. He says there are
plenty of black bass of legal size, as
we'll as an overabundance of these
gamesters Just under the legal size.
Good catches of large rock, pike
and bass were being landed in the
Susquehanna River before this stream
got muddy. The river now is high
and will remain so at least another
week.
Capt. levin BlackSton, jr.. at Rock
Hall, Nd, reports that July 10, be-
tween and $50 am, 10 rock were
caught trolling that weighed 225
pounds.
More rockfish already have been
landed this season than for some
years past, these gamesters having
staged q comeback after the abolition
Of the purse net in Maryland waters.
This condition is particularly notice
able in the lower Potomac, where
catches of as many as so in one day
we're reported landed on the bars in
the river of Colonial Beach. Some
of these babies also are being landed
of Tall Timbers, an old familiar
ground for them.
TN SALT water, croakers were taken
l. in such large numbers last week
that anglers tired of catching them.
From Southwest Middles up the bay
on both sides they were abundant, q
catch of 800 or more being nothing
unusual. These fish are running very
large, three, four and five pounds,
and are being caught in the early
morning, afternoon and evening, with
the late evening the best time to land
the larger of this species.
at have been fishing in Chesapeake
Bay for over Is years and during this
period I never have seen anything
like the large numbers Of heardhead
landed" Capt. Noah Hazard at
Galesville. on West River, told us.
He said on Thursday evening he
took a party from Camp Meade TO
Poplar Island and all you had to do
was to drop your line in the water
and as soon as the sinker hit the bot
tom your hook. and some times both
hooks, would be grabbed. This party
landed over 800.
De Forest Ormes, business repre-
sentative Of the Motion Picture Opera
tors Union, and Raynald Wallack OF
Cincinnati fishing on the Gooses for
the first time last week landed 800
hardhead, the majority Of them big
horses"
Solomons Island fishing parties are
returning with big catches of hard
head. and sea trout are increasing.
Several big schools of blues were OBJ
served in the Bay last week between
Hoopers Island and Cedar Point Light.
This shows that these gameSters are
coming up the Bay, and that 1t won't
be long before we have some real
fishing in nearby salt water.
30. Owens, Robert o. Engle. Allen
Thompson Bernard Gooding, Joseph
Gore and his 10-year-old son Junior
and Charles S. Dulaney flshed at Solo
mons Island last Thursday and landed
800 fish out in the channel and on
Cove Point. 1t was the first fishing
trip for Junior Gore and he landed
80 hardhead.
FISHING Friday night at Solomons,
party composed of DR.. M.
DARCY Magee. Col. Frank Wilven, A.
L. Dalzell, DR.. Charles O'Conner, w.
NICK. Stowell and J. Fred Oertel
caught more than 800 hardhead. They
fished first in the mouth of the river
between Drum Point and Hog Island.
Here they landed large numbers OF
hardhead, but the fish were not large.
They then headed across the Bay
to Hoopers Island. For the first half
hour they did not get a strike, but
suddenly the fish commenced to bite
and were caught as fast as they could
be pulled in, often two at time, the
largest weighing 4 pounds.
Visiting the Gooses Wednesday
night, Ted Pickett, Bill Stanley. son