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tail. In the same work the large-mouth bass of 

 the Southern states is classified under the head 

 of " brook trout," the author being misled appar- 

 ently by its Southern name of " trout," and goes 

 on to say that they "grow much larger than 

 Northern trout," and that they " are fished for 

 with the same arrangement of tackle as the 

 striped bass or salmon." A contributor to the 

 work, however, from Buffalo, New York, treats 

 briefly and vaguely of still-fishing with minnows 

 and crawfish. Brief notes also from Southern and 

 Western anglers give fair descriptions of the ap- 

 pearance and habits of both species of black-bass. 

 Frank Forester (Henry W. Herbert) knew no 

 more of the black-bass than Mr. Brown, and 

 acknowledges that he never caught one. That 

 old Nestor of angling. Uncle Thad Norris, in his 

 "American Angler's Book," 1864, gives the de- 

 scriptions of Louis Agassiz and Dr. Holbrook 

 for the black-bass, and then relates his only ex- 

 perience as follows, " I have taken this bass in 

 the vicinity of St. Louis, on a moonshiny night, 

 by skittering a light spoon over the surface of the 

 water, while standing on the shore." Genio C. 

 Scott in his " Fishing in American Waters," 

 1869, has less to say, and evidently knew less of 



