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kind of black bass caught in July and August, the large-mouth 

 not coming until September. Besides grasshoppers and minnows 

 the spoon, spinner and fly are occasionally used. Rarely the craw- 

 fish makes a good bait. Generally one does not anchor, but trolls 

 slowly with 75 to 100 feet of line out. Sometimes however, good 

 catches are made while still-fishing. Sometimes they are caught 

 through the ice; in the spring of 1901, just as the ice was going 

 off there were 2 or 3 days when this was the principal fish caught ; 

 generally, however, it was the straw bass that was taken in winter. 

 The usual weight of this fish as got in the lake is from 2 to 

 2.5 pounds ; 3-pounders are occasional, and the maximum size 

 seems to be about 5 pounds. There is a record of an angler hav- 

 ing caught one which weighed 7 pounds (April 7, 1900), but the 

 fish may have been wrongly identified. A large number were 

 measured, and a good number were measured and weighed. The 

 following table gives the lengths and weights of 21 specimens of 

 this species: 



The Black Bass exhibits some variations in color, though not so 

 marked or striking as the straw bass. Some examples are irregu- 

 larly spotted. A marked variation is brownish rather than green- 

 ish, with reddish eyes. Some of the fishermen speak of these as 

 the "red-eyed bass". 



By far the greater number of stomachs examined contained 

 crawfishes, and the indications are that these form the chief food 



