MINNESOTA is the home of inland lake game fishes. 

 From Iowa to the Lake of the Woods, and from the 

 Mississippi and St. Croix to the stormy reaches of 

 Big Stone and Traverse lakes her waters abound with those 

 finny prizes which all anglers most covet, and her lakes and 

 streams afford more sport, perhaps, than can be found within 

 the borders of any other single state of the Union. Trout 

 are to be found here, for the foaming brooklets of the North 

 country are filled with beautiful specimens of the brook va- 

 riety, while in many sections the German brown has thrived 

 in a phenomenal way only a few years after his first intro- 

 duction to our waters. The pike family is well represented, 

 too, with pickerel and the smaller pike in abundance, and the 

 larger fighting members, the muskallonge and Northern pike, 

 each to be found in his favorite haunts, if the angler will take 

 the time and care to hunt them in their respective lairs. 

 Perches are represented by the wall-eye, the sand pike and 

 the yellow perch, while the less important varieties of the 

 sunfish family haunt all streams and lakes and afford sport 

 for the boy just as he is learning the joys of the fields and 

 ponds. 



Minnesota the Home of the Black Bass. 



And above all, Minnesota is the home of the great black 

 bass, big mouth and small mouth, "inch for inch, and 

 pound for pound the gamest fish that swims," a single 

 variety of the sunfish family that attracts more sportsmen 

 to Minnesota than all her remaining fish and game birds and 

 beasts do, combined. Then there are the bottom fish, catfish, 

 bullheads, sturgeons, carp, suckers, and many others, and 

 the whole array forms a list that must convince the sports- 

 man that old Dame Nature has indeed been prodigal in her 

 gifts to the lakes and streams of the North Star state. 



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