FOB THE NATURALIST AND ANGLER. 



DR. JAMES A. HENSHALL'S 

 BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



Comprising its complete Scientific and Life Histories, together 

 with u Practical Treatise oil Angling and Fly-fishing, and a 

 full Account of Tools, Tackle, and Implements. By JAMES 

 A. HENSIIALL, M. D. 



Large I2mo. 460 pages. Fully illustrated. Price $3.00. 

 Sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of the price. 



This volume is the most complete and exhaustive monograph 

 ever published upon any game-fish. It is entirely practical and in- 

 structive in its scope and style, and will fully meet the wants and 

 requirements of the great and growing interest manifested on this 

 subject. 



The Black Bass is a game-fish of the highest order, and is pre- 

 eminently American in its habitat and characteristics, its range now 

 extending over the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains; 

 but, while the Salmon and Brook Trout are fairly represented in 

 American Angling Works (mostly compilations from English au- 

 thors), the Black Bass has been neglected and almost ignored ; a 

 few pages of an unreliable and insufficient character being all that 

 has heretofore been devoted to its consideration. 



Dr. Henshall has been well known for the past ten years as an 



authority on the Black Bass, and as an expert angler. His writ- 



oublished in the various journals of the country devoted to 



Angling, Field Sports, Natural History, etc., are constantly referred 



to as the only reliable data on the subJ3ct. 



K OF THE BLACK BASS is beautifully printed, hand- 

 somely bound, and fully illustrated. 



Th- full-paged Photo-lithograph Engravings of the two species of 

 Black Bass are true to nature in every particular, having been 

 drawn from many fresh specimens, expressly for this work, by 

 ERXKST H. COPELAXD, M. D., of Milwaukee, Wis. 



The mode and methods of handling the rod in casting, striking, 

 and playing a Bass in fly-fishing and bait-fishing, are illustrated by 

 special engravings drawn from life. 



Tht- various articles of tackle are faithfully represented by more 

 than a hundred illustrations. 



The author, being a life-long angler, has written his own personal 

 exper: 1 observations of the Black Bass, and how to capture 



him. This portion of the book is entirely original and purely 

 American, and differ* vastly from any work hitherto published on 

 practical angling. 



ROBKI.'T CLARKE & CO., PUBLISHERS, 



NNATI, O. 



