and Affectations 



be seconded in this by a very large 

 body of fishermen in the best of stand- 

 ing. It is manifestly proper also to 

 select for this competition with trout 

 casting a kind of fishing which pre- 

 sents a contrast in being uninfluenced 

 by any affectations or by a particle 

 of manufactured and fictitious infla- 

 tion. 



In speaking of black bass I am 

 not dealing with the large-mouthed 

 variety that are found in both North- 

 ern and Southern waters, and which 

 grow in the latter to a very large 

 size, but only with the small-mouthed 

 family inhabiting the streams or 

 lakes and ponds of the North, and 

 which are large when they reach 

 four pounds in weight. I consider 

 these, when found in natural and 

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