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clear-water bayous, and the foot of rapids and 

 riffles. It is partial to the same character of food 

 as the white-bass, small minnows constituting the 

 greater part. It likewise spawns in the spring, 

 and grows to a pound or two in weight, some- 

 times reaching three pounds. It is an excellent 

 food-fish. 



I have had good sport with the yellow-bass 

 on St. Francis River in Arkansas, and at the 

 head of the Yazoo Pass, in Mississippi, with the 

 same tackle and by similar methods as recom- 

 mended for the white-bass on a prior page. As 

 with the two black-basses and the two crappies, 

 the white-bass and yellow-bass having similar 

 habits and kindred tastes, the same tackle and the 

 same modes of angling are as well suited for one 

 as for the other. This will apply to both fly- 

 fishing and bait-fishing. 



I was once, one autumn, with a party on a river 

 steam yacht on the lower Mississippi when geese, 

 ducks, deer, and turkeys were more plentiful than 

 they are now. Up the St. Francis River, in the 

 " sunk lands " of Arkansas, the yacht was moored 

 at Cow Bayou, near a steep clay bluff, on the top 

 of which was a dilapidated tent occupied by a 

 young man and his wife, who were building a 



