126 American Fisheries Society 



Mr. Fearing: 1 have tried it and they will not take an angleworm. 



Mr. Meehan : On the Susquehanna River at Octoraro there are 

 grounds famous for black bass and pike-perch. The latter species is 

 known there as the Susquehanna salmon. On one occasion I saw a 

 pike-perch weighing about five pounds that was caught by a fisherman 

 while trolling with bloodworms; but I never saw or heard of a black 

 bass being caught in those pools with bloodworms ; although I did 

 hear of a few that were caught by using just a single bloodworm. 

 You see at that point they use, as Mr. Worth has said, quite a bunch 

 of worms, seldom less than three or four. The worms are usually 

 strung on two hooks, one placed above the other, and they hang from 

 one hook to the other, making a large bunch, too large for a black bass. 

 The particular pools at Octoraro are famous for pike-perch after the 

 striped bass season is over, which ends in September in that section. 



