He seems to have broken up his kennels and to have given away most or all of his hounds.
Later he acquired a pair of "tarriers" and took enough interest in them to write detailed instructions concerning them in 1796.
Washington's fishing was mostly done with a seine as a commercial proposition, but he seems to have had a mild interest in angling.
Occasionally he took trips up and down the Potomac in order to fish, sometimes with a hook and line, at other times with seines and nets.

He and Doctor Craik took fishing tackle with them on both their western tours and made use of it in some of the mountain streams and also in the Ohio.

While at the Federal Convention in 1787 he and Gouverneur Morris went up to Valley Forge partly perhaps to see the old camp, but ostensibly to fish for trout.

They lodged at the home of a widow named Moore.

On the trip the Farmer learned the Pennsylvania way of raising buckwheat and, it must be confessed, wrote down much more about this topic than about trout.