Evening star., 1935-08-18
~ URSE netters are operating in
- the bay from Herring Bay to
Southwest Middles. and moth

UhoE netIerS are operating III
- the bay from Herring Bay TO
Southwest Middles, and moth
= ing proves more conclusively
that the blues and sea trout are in
our nearby salt water in large
numbers.
The purse net was outlawed by the
General Assembly Of Maryland a few
years ago. The anglers are Just reap
ing the benefit this year with the ap-
pearance of more fish than have been
seen for many, many years. We have
run into illegal fishermen on my last
three trips.
We made a report to the Maryland
Conservation Commission about these
men. E. Lee Compte. Maryland State
game warden, told us Friday that he
was sending out all available patrol
boats with orders not to return until
they had arrested them. Under the
Maryland law it is illegal to catch
fish either with a purse net or seine
The fine imposed is from SIS to $500,
plus coniscation of boats and nets.
p ECENTLY We fished off Herring
Bay with Capt. Albert Ward. He
has good boat. equipped with a six
cylinder motor and is a very high type
of man. We highly recommend him
to the anglers desiring to fish on
either side Of the bay. He can be
reached by phone at West River
2l2-F-5. His place is a short distance
beyond the second bridge at Deal,
Md It was while We were out with
Capt. Ward that We ran across two
purse netters in Herring Bay. AT
Solomons Island We encountered a
purse netter operating below Cedar
Point Light. The purse netters not
only are getting large numbers of
blues and sea trout. but, according to
Andrew Gemeny, local angler, they
are becoming hard boiled, showing
guns and threatening to board sport
boats with hatchets.
On our trip last Wednesday we
had in my party Dorothy Smith
Martha Smith and Brooke Young.
their uncle, and Larry Linthicum,
Harold Rogers and George Hurd We
were guests of Capt. Harry Woodburn
at Solomons Island and went out in
one of his big boats, with Capt. Dick
Woodburn as guide. We found the
water too rough for trolling. We first
crossed the bay to Hooper's Island and
our lines were soon trolling for blues.
Dorothy Smith hooked the first blue.
She had out about 200 feet of line and
Mr.. Blue freed himself before he could
be landed. She got another strike
and the same thing happened. The
water by this time became very rough
and we decided to move. Miss Smith
asked Rogers to reel in her line and
in so doing another blue struck.
Rogers almost landed this one-got it
along side of the boat and lost it.
We returned to the west side of the
bay and fished below Cedar Point
Light, but again the water was too
rough. Then the gang went swimming
FRIDAY Capt. Albert Ward at Her.
ring Bay reported that blues were
breaking water off the mouth of this
popular fishing grounds and being
landed in large numbers. He said he
had just returned and had landed SO
of these gamesters Weighing from 2 "a
to pounds.
There are plenty of blues off Solo
mons Island and a lot of small sea
trout are being landed. Capt. Harry
Woodburn reports large schools of sea
trout in the mouth of the Honga River
on the Eastern Shore. All needed to
have good catch these days is fairly
smooth water.
Capt Robert E. Lee at Shady Side,
Md, reports that the blues have been
breaking water in large numbers in
his vicinity of the bay. The largest
catch last week was 96.
On Southwest Middles the anglers
are having wonderful sport with big
blues, and, Incidentally, a lot of ex-
pensive tackle is being lost fishing for
these gamesters.
Andrew Gemeny fished on these
grounds last Tuesday and Thursday
On Tuesday he caught 19 blues and
on Thursday landed 81.
Fishing Wednesday at the same
place Miss Z. l.. Bean, E. P. Wetzel
William Lyons and Harry Siertag
landed 80 blues, most of them hooked
cumming.
G. S. Putnam and his son George
and Garland and Fred Harveycutter
were among the anglers visiting
Southwest Middles. last week. They
landed So blues.
Detective Sergt. Guy Rome, Harry
Raley and j. B. Bland took q three.
day vacation last week and fishec
from Blands boat at Southwest Mid
dies. On Monday they landed only
nine blues, but on Tuesday they
hooked 48 and on Wednesday 81. The
fish averaged six pounds and one
tipping the scales at 1917.
e. w. Spicer, Mr.. and Mrs. John r
German and Carl Champ, with Capt
Lee Harper as guide, fished OF Wind.
mill Light, at the mouth Of the Kappa