CHAPTER VIII. 



ON STOCKING INLAND WATERS WITH BLACK 



BASS. 



A LAKE belonging to the South Fork Fishing and Hunt- 

 ing Club, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was successfully stocked with 

 adult Black Bass in June, 1881. The transportation of the 

 six hundred and sixty Bass from Sandusky, Ohio, to the 

 lake, ninety miles east of Pittsburgh, was carried out very 

 successfully under the direction of Mr. W. A. Mcintosh, 

 vice-president of the club. 



The fish were placed in fifteen oak casks, three feet high, 

 and three feet in diameter, and five galvanized iron tanks, 

 five feet high, and three feet in diameter. The water was 

 kept at the proper temperature by adding ice occasionally, 

 and aerated by means of a large air-pump and fifty feet of 

 one-inch rubber hose, at one end of which was a series of 

 perforated tin tubes. A large tin tube also ran along above 

 the casks, with a small dependent tube ending in a sprink- 

 ler leadino; to the top of each cask, into which water was 

 poured and entered the casks in a fine spray. 



The Bass weighed from three-fourths of a pound to two 

 and one-half pounds, averaging one and a half pounds each. 

 The females were heavy with spawn, as the season was 

 backward. They were on the road, from Sanduskv to the 

 lake, some thirty hours, with a loss of only sixty fish, or 

 ten per cent. The Bass have done well in the lake, as 



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