470 



FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



have heard of larger ones, but its usual weight is about 

 three pounds. It inhabits both ponds and streams; is non- 

 migratory. Bites at feathered squids, flies, minnows, but 

 seldom at worms. The color above lateral line is blue, fad- 

 ing to creamy white below middle of side. Mouth large, 

 and lower jaw projecting; has card-like teeth on the upper 

 and lower edges of the jaw ; eye large ; throat and breast 

 always white. Very active and strong ; spawns during all 

 the summer months; bites best in fall and spring. The 

 perch- chub should be angled for with regular black -bass 

 tackle, the rod being pliable, but with snap enough in the 

 lance-wood top to respond and hook the fish at first inten- 

 tion. B. F. MOORE, Jim. 



SECTION SECOND. 





CHUB-KOBIN. Pon/obis mbellus. 



This gamy little pan-fish inhabits many streams and lakes 

 of the South and South-west, but its natural latitude is from 

 Virginia and the Carolinas, westward. My brother having 

 taken it in Western Missouri, induced me to procure a draw- 

 ing and description of it, which has been done by a true an- 

 gler and ichthyologist, Font Taylor, Esq., of Raleigh, North 

 Carolina. 



