418 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



The following table taken from Report State Fish Commission- 

 ers of Penn., 1897, p. 159, may be of interest for weights and 

 measurements of smaller examples : 



The Straw Bass reaches a larger size farther south than here. 



Mr. Willard Nye of New Bedford, has given us the following 

 note: 



"On or about February 20, 1902, I caught a female Large- 

 mouthed Black Bass in the uppermost of a long chain of small 

 lakes in Pasco County, Florida. The fish weighed 11^ pounds, 

 measured 26^ inches in total length, 214 in circumference, and 

 7^ across the mouth from side to side. The eggs were pretty 

 well developed, but not ripe; the stomach contained one small fish 

 too far digested to be identified. The fish was caught trolling with 

 a phantom minnow of the blue-back variety, 3i inches long, which 

 is the best bait for all sorts of fish in the fresh waters of Florida ; 

 even very small bass and sunfish will take this lure." 



The large bass referred to jumped once entirely free from the 

 water. Mr. Nye says that he has heard of other bass in Florida 

 weighing as much as 12 pounds, but this is the largest he ever saw. 



