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THE SMALL-MOUTHED BASS 



Neck-lace Poplar 



fond of hard work, and have infinite patience, if he ever 

 hopes to quahfy for the honourable title of expert angler. 



In a large body of water the 

 places which will be found most 

 favourable for the taking of bass 

 are at the entrances of bays, near 

 the mouth of a stream, and in the 

 neighbourhood of srnken reefs, 

 which form with each other in- 

 closed pockets with a bottom of 

 mud and weeds. 



Where there is an abundance 

 of rough broken stone one is 

 always sure of taking bass, especi- 

 ally in the afternoon or evening, 

 just before sundown. 

 For the expert angler, who has served an apprenticeship 

 of ten or twenty years in acquiring 

 the necessary rudiments of an 

 education which springs only from 

 long contact with Nature, there is 

 no place which compares, at least 

 in variety of bass fishing, with the 

 eastern shore of Georgian Bay. 



From an inspection of the map 

 of Lake Huron one can see that 

 such a region is peculiarly adapted 

 to be the home of the small- 

 mouthed bass. 



The shore extends for a dis- 

 tance of one hundred and twenty 

 miles north and south; deep bays 

 penetrate the land at intervals, 

 whilst numerous large and small streams flow into it, car- 

 rying down in their waters a supply of minute animals and 



