Evening star., 1939-06-18


tried it again. This time they didn't
do SO well. catching only 1866 hard
head. 1t took them over five hours
to do that. Such poor fishing
Only about / fish every As seconds
or SO.
The new guide book Of the
Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair
Association Is ready and may
be had without cost.
Write to the associations head
quarters at Preston, Md. In the
book are listed several guides and
boatmen on the bay who are mem
bers of the association. There also
is a large map of the bay with the
principal fishing spots well marked
The fair this year will be held at
Annapolis on August 26 and 81.
The event Is receiving widespread
publicity and fishermen from all
parts Of the East are expected to be
there Beginning on July 7, Sta
ton WFBR will have a series of
broadcasts about bay fishing and
the fair. This program will be heard
on Friday nights at GAS.
Brown Reports Good Lure.
j. Hammond Ham Brown, fish,
ing editor of the Baltimore Ameri-
can, with whom we have been on
jaunts from Florida to Nova Scotia
and better angler Is hard to
find anyWhere-drops a note re-
garding the Ocean City situation
Had a great day last Sunday off
Ocean City taking mackerel and
bluefish on the bug-eye feathalure," ="
writes Ham. The lure held up ex-
ceptionally we'll under the terrific
SlaSheS of those fish"
You anglers who have taken
those fighting blues know
what they can do to a bait
after four or five slashes at it.
We have several feathers and
plugs of one sort and another in
our tackle kit of which nothing is
left but a metal head, and that is
scared and ripped. Another re-
port of good fishing with the same
lure that Brown used comes from
Capt. Sewell Dixon of Galesville.
He took Fritz and Ernie Maisel over
to Eastern Bay to troll for rock
fish. They boated II stripers run
ming from to 8 pounds.
More Ocean City Reports.
Capt Crawford Savage of Ocean
City has installed two marin, r..
c. A. radio telephones on his Hllda
! and Hilda II. There are several
fishing banks off that port, and the
fish shift from one to another.
| Thus the two boats can talk back
and forth and tell the other what
luck they are having The phones
| also add to the safety of an ofsnore
trip.
Milton Thompson and ID.
Murphy of Washington fished
with Capt. Richard Carpenter
on the Maudie and caught
about 200 weakfish, pOrgies
and sea bass.
Murphy has a summer home at
Herald Harbor. and is used to the
small fish around there He also
likes to take little nap while fish,
ing. He was doing a bit when a
l0-pound weak hit his bait and
started off with it. 1t pulled the
!, line through his hands so fast that
Hthey were burned and required
some salve to bring them back to
form. He thought a whale was
doing all that tugging until he got
it in and saw it was a mere weak
fish.
Condensed Fishing Reports.
Susauehanna River. at Conowingo Dam:
Capt. Paul SweIgart--Catches poor TINS
past week Pike and rock catches seem a
little better now.
Susouehanna River. at Old Rock Run
Mil: CAPT. W. w. Wilkinson-Guides have
been bringing in fair catches of rock and
pike
Point Pleasant and Brielle, N. J-Fluke
on bottom fair Mackere jiggng very
Bowers Beach. Del: Capt. w NJ. Steven
Son-Catches running from lJO to 400 per
boat; one-third trout, balance croakers:
a lew channel bass.
LiLtle Creek. Del: Capt. Irwin Pleasan-
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