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live minnow is very successful. A heavy sinker is used and the minnow is dragged 

 near the bottom. Spoon, spinner, and fly are occasionally used. Rarely crawfish 

 make good bait at Lake Maxinkuckee. Sometimes the bass are here caught 

 through the ice. 



In Oneida Lake the Small-mouthed Bass is commonly caught hv still fishing, 

 with minnows or large nymphs of dragon-flies as bait. The dragon-fly nymphs 

 are sold, sometimes at the rate of four cents each, to bass fishermen. Bensley ('15, 

 p. 44) notes the erratic nature of this species as a game fish, and speaks of it as 

 sometimes biting promptly and vigorously the moment the bait is in the water, 

 while at other times it is wary. Places where on some occasions the fish occurs in 

 abundance seem at other times a]>parently to be abandoned. Cheney recf)gnizes 

 ('97, p. 176) this peculiarity when he says, "The fly or the bait that may lure Ijlack 

 bass one day may be ignored the following day, when all conditions of wind and 

 water seem to be similar." 



References. Baker, '16; Bangham, '2-^,, "26; Bean, "92. '02. 03, '10; Beeman, 

 '24; Belding, '26; Bensley, '15: Bower, '96; Cheney. ■1)7: Clemens, '24; Cooper, 

 '15; Embody, '15; Essex and Hunter, '24; Evermann and Clark, '20; Faust, '18; 

 Forbes and Richardson, '09; Goode, '87, '03; Greeley. '27; Henshall, '03, '19; 

 Jordan and Evermann, '96. '03; Jordan and Stapleton. '13; Kendall, '13, '24; 

 LaRue, '14; Lydell, '04, '26; Loudon, '10; Macdonald, '26. '2y\ j\Ianter, '26; Mar- 

 shall and Gilbert. '05 ; Mather, '86; Meehan, '13 ; Mitchill. '15 ; Moore, '26; Nichols 

 and Heilner, '20; Needham, '22; Osborn, '11; Pearse, '18, '21, '21a; Pratt, '23; 

 Reed and Wright. '09; Reighard, '06, '08, '15; Riley, '18; Sibley, '22; Smallwood, 

 '14: Smith, '96, '07; Surlier, '13: Titcomb, '22; Tracy, '10; Turner, '20; \'an 

 Cleave, '19; Ward, '94: Ward and Whipple, '18; W^ilson, '19, '20; Worth, '10: 

 \\right. '92; Wright and Allen, '13. 



Micropterus salmoides (Lacepede). Large-mouthicd Bl.'vck B.\ss. This 

 b^ss (Fig. 230) is sufficiently abundant in Oneida Lake and of sufficient size to 

 attract many anglers in the bass fishing season. Good catches are said to be fre- 

 qtient. The species is held tn he most jilentiful in the shallower, western part of 

 the lake, where a(|iiatic ve-et:ilini, is nicst abundant. The name "( )^wr-n llass" 

 ordinarily is given tn this species. 



Ih-eedinfj Ilahils and Life Ilislory. It has not been possible for us tn study 

 the Large-moulh of Oneida Lake during its lireeding season, so that no definite 

 information on its s]iawning and nesting there have been obtained. ( h\ June 

 18, 1921, three days after the legal season on black bass opened, llaiikinson 

 examined carefully the rush-covered shallows all along the south shore nl Lnwcr 

 .South Ba\-. i'reeding conditions favorable tor the Large-mouth apprarrd to 

 seen. Snnie small areas that l.x.ked nnich 

 d. and it is iiroliable that these were their 



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