9i FISHERM.VN'S LI'RES 



is found in every lake and pond, furnishes prob- 

 ably more fish food than any one other species, 

 with the sunfishes a good second. 

 As stated in the previous chapter concerning 

 trout, the same rule applies to other fishes; that 

 is, the largest fish are always found where food 

 is most abundant. If fish stay where food is scarce, 

 it is only because they are unable to do better 

 or to migrate elsewhere. In describing the annexed 

 lake plan, beginning at the inlet. A, which is usually 

 sandy shallows and the part where minnows and 

 other small fishes congregate — it will often be 

 found that schools of bass haunt that section, 

 especially at evenings, going back to deeper water 

 in the davtime. Crawfish often choose to make 

 their abiding-place in the shallows close to the 

 fresh cool water flowing in the lake. Among the 

 roots of submerged tree trunks, at B, is the favorite 

 haunt of pickerel, and sometimes large bass. In 

 such a place frogs and hellgrammites choose to 

 live and breed; the frogs along the shore, the hell- 

 grammites close by rotting wood. Following the 

 shore-line we gradually get to shallower water 

 where grass and weeds appear, growing just above 

 or lying on the surface, till we come to the deeper 

 water of the lily -pads, at C. Here the water may 



