Favorite Fish and Fishing 



name bestowed by the English colonists 

 owing to its gameness. While black-bass 

 fishing is comparatively a recent sport in 

 the Eastern States, it was practiced in Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee and southern Ohio before 

 the end of the eighteenth century. In 1805 

 George Snyder, the inventor of the Ken- 

 tucky reel, was president of the Bourbon 

 County Angling Club at Paris, Kentucky. 

 Fly-fishing was practiced as early as 1840 

 on the Elkhorn and Kentucky rivers by Mr. 

 J. L. Sage and others. His click reel, made 

 by himself, is now in my possession; and 

 George Snyder's own reel, made in 18 10, 

 a small brass multiplying reel running on 

 garnet jewels. Is still In the possession of 

 his grandson at Louisville. 

 Appearance and ^j^g black bass Is now an acknowledged 

 peer among game fishes, and taking him by 

 and large excels them all, weight for 

 weight. The generic term black bass, as 

 here used. Includes both the large-mouth 

 bass and the small-mouth bass. The two 

 species are as much alike as two peas in a 

 pod, the most striking dlf^ference between 

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