FisJi and Fishinz in America. 



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smaller than the dimensions above 

 given when used in fishing streams 

 without a boat. They should be made 

 of the very best of block tin, and before 

 used covered with two coats of shellac 

 varnish put on when the tin is heated 

 quite hot. This will keep the pails from 

 rusting for many years. One pail of 

 the above size will hold about a hundred 

 minnows, and if the water be aerated, 

 changed, or a small lump of ice intro- 

 duced, the)^ will live in it several days. 



In addition to the above-named bait 

 minnows, the young of nearly all species 

 of fish, and hundreds of other forms of 

 adult minnows are servicable as bait. 

 The much mooted question : " Do black 

 bass eat young shad ?" so hotly dis- 

 cussed during 1882-85 by anglers and 

 fish culturists, was settled afBrmatively 

 by my own experience at Havre De 

 Grace, at the mouth of the Susque- 



hanna, where I found in the early days 

 of November that the young shad was 

 the most attractive lure for the black 

 bass, which fish when hungry will take 

 live bait of any kind, not excepting its 

 own young, and the same may be said 

 of all our so-called game fishes, includ- 

 ing the trout and salmon, the latter 

 only, however, in the estuaries, accord- 

 ing to English authorities. Dr. Barton 

 W. Evermann writes me that he has 

 successfully used, on the St. Lawrence 

 river and Lake Ontario, particularly 

 from Sackett's Harbor to Ogdensburg, 

 the shiner, described on another page 

 as Notropis hiidsoniiis, and the common 

 baits for mascalonge in that region are 

 the blunt-nosed minnow, Pimcpliales 

 notatns, the silver fin, Notropis whipplii, 

 and the stone roller, already described 

 at length. In Spirit Lake, Iowa, the 

 trout perch, Pcrcopsis guttatns, is also 

 considered a most excellent lure for 

 pike, pickerel and black bass. 



{To be Continued.') 



