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over again, that he was the best fish he ever ate. You have 

 his word for it. I mean to stand by the fish that I helped to 

 scatter around the State. 



Mr. Yeomans. Allow me just a word more. I would say, 

 in regard to the statement of my friend Dr. Sturtevant, that 

 I do not undertake to deny that the black bass is a very pe- 

 culiar fish ; but that he will not bite very well, I have not been 

 able to discover yet. As I chance to have a record of a few 

 clays' fishing in Columbia reservoir, which 1 did not know I 

 had at the time I was up before, I will just give that as evi- ' 

 dence on the question whether black bass will bite or not. I 

 will say that these were the only days that season that I fished, 

 or attempted to fish, and it was the same season that my 

 brother-in-law was with me. I find, however, by referring to 

 the record, that I made one mistake in speaking of the num- 

 ber of fish caught. I said that we caught eleven the first day. 

 By looking at the figures I see that we caught fourteen, but 

 we lost three by throwing them over the side of the boat, and 

 therefore we saved but eleven. 



Now, in regard to this record. August 6, we caught four- 

 teen ; August 7, thirteen ; August 15, twenty-two ; August 

 26, fifty-one; August 29, the number is not put down, but the 

 weight, fifty pounds ; August 30, I caught four myself that 

 weighed seven and three-fourths pounds. There was one other 

 item that should have been put down at the time. I fished 

 with 'Squire Marvin of Hartford, and sent him home with 

 twenty-five pounds of black bass, and I certainly could have 

 no cause to complain that the black bass is not a biting fish. 



Mr. Augur. I have been very much interested in the gen- 

 tleman's lecture on trout, but, unfortunately, many of us are 

 in sections of the State where trout-streams do not exist to 

 any great extent; but we have, with the increase of our manu- 

 factories, a good many artificial reservoirs, and I rise to ask 

 the lecturer, or Dr. Sturtevant, or any one who may be 

 familiar with the matter, what they would recommend as the 

 best fish to put into those reservoirs which are not stocked 

 with fish. I wanted to ask, also, a question in regard to the 



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