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.Ingliiu/ Xotcs. The White Bass is a good game fish, and according to Forbes 

 and Richardson ("09, p. 320), it may be caught with live minnows and even with 

 grubs and angleworms. It will also rise to the fly. Bean ('13. p. 271) says that 

 it may be caught with artificial fly or minnow, and that it will bite freely at night. 

 He tells of as many as one hundred White Bass frequently being caught in a few 

 hours. 



The following is quoted from Henshall ('03, pp. 87-89) : 'Tt is one of the 

 best fresh-water game-fishes, being a bold biter, and on light and suitable tackle 

 aftords much sport to the appreciative angler. For fly-fishing, the best season is 

 during the spring, when it enters the tributary streams of lakes. At this time the 

 fly-fisher will be successful at any hour of the day. He may fish from the bank 

 or from an anchored boat, the latter plan being the best. As the fish are swimming 

 in schools, either headed up or downstream, no particular place need be selected, 

 though off the points at the edge of the channel, or in the narrowest portions of 

 the streams, are perhaps the best. In the summer and fall the fish are in the 

 lakes or deeper water, when the fishing will be more successful during the late 

 afternoon hours until sundown. . . . 



"A trout fly-rod of six or seven ounces, with the usual trout click reel and 

 corresponding tackle, will subserve a good purpose. When the fish are running in 

 the streams the most useful flies are gray drake, green drake, stone fly, brown 

 hackle, gray hackle, Henshall. and Montreal of the usual trout patterns, on hooks 

 Nos. 5 to 7. 



"For bait-fishing, a light black-bass or trout rod, with niultiiilying reel, braided 

 silk line of the smallest caliber, a leader of small gut three feet long, and hooks 

 Nos. 3 or 4 tied on gut snells, will answer well. The best and in fact the onlv 

 bait that can be successfully used is a small minnow, hooked through the lips. The 

 fishing is done from an anchored boat on lakes or deep pools or streams, either In- 

 casting or still-fishing." 



References. Baker, '16; Bean. '03, "07, '13; Forbes, "78, '80; Forbes and 

 Richardson, '09: Goode. '84. '03; Henshall. '03: Jordan and Kvermann. '96. '02: 

 Marshall and Gilbert, '05; Nash, '08; Smith, 96: Surber, "13; \'an Cleave, '22; 

 Ward, '12; Wilson, '16: Ward and Alagath, '16; Wright and Allen. '13. 



Perca flavescens (Mitchill). Common Perch. The Perch (Plate i) is the 

 most abundant and l)cst known of all of the food and game fi.shes in Oneida Lake. 

 Campers and cott;igcrs interested in the small inland lakes of Northeastern United 

 States and ])(ii]ilc who patronize fish-markets know the Perch and are familiar 

 with its (|u;ilitiis as an object of sport and as a table fi.sh. Goode ('03, p. (> ) writes 

 of the Perch: ".\ fish for the people it is, we will grant, and it is the anglers from 

 among the people, who have neither time, money nor patience for long trips and 

 complicated tackle, who will prove its steadfast friends." Jordan and Evcnnann 

 ('03, p. 366) say that "the Yellow Perch is a fish that can be caught by women 

 and children, who do not. as a rule, seek the more mible game fishes; and many 

 an inland summer resort is made vastly more attractive Iiecause our wives and 

 children who are spending the summer at the little inland lake are always able to 

 bring in good strings of delicious Yellow Perch." Not only are many fish brought 

 in during the summer fishing season, but 1,-irge lunnbcrs are cau.L;bt in the winter 



