50 THE ANGLER AND HUNTSMAN 



bayou bass, trout, jumper, chub, and welchman. In the 

 North it is called black bass generally, and in Virginia and 

 North Carolina it is usually designated as the chub, while in 

 Florida and the southern states it is frequently called trout. 



The small-mouth black bass has been given in various 

 regions the names: brown bass, lake bass, hog bass, ninny 

 bass, black perch (used in the mountains of Virginia, 

 Tennessee, and North Carolina) trout perch, brown trout, 

 jumper, mountain trout, and other names of purely local 

 use. 



Rock bass are known in different parts of their range 

 as red-eye, red-eye perch, goggle-eye. 



The calico bass has been given the names of strawber- 

 ry bass, grass bass, bitter-head, barfish, lamplighter, gog- 

 gle-eye, goggle-eye perch, speckled perch, and speckled 

 trout, while the crappie is known in its native waters as 

 crappie, new light, campbellite, sac-a-lait, bachelor, crop- 

 pie, cropet, and chinquapin perch. 



Rock bass have a habit of settling down in dense, com- 

 pact masses, like a swarm of bees, and when once the ang- 

 ler gets a rock bass to creel he can count on there being 

 plenty others in the same spot. This fish will pugnacious- 

 ly strike at the lure, and apparently take the hook on that 

 account more than from a desire for food. 



The calico bass is also a fairly game fighter, and will 

 give the angler many a sportful moment. 



In Kentucky, the black bass has acquired a common 

 name which perhaps suits it better than any other applied 

 to it, namely "jumper." Both the large-mouth and the 

 small-mouth are famous for their jumping ability, to which 

 every angler can testify. Especially are they active and 

 have an inclination to show their jumping ability when 

 they have temperate or cool water for a habitat. In warm- 

 er water they are a bit sluggish, but the black bass of the 

 colder northern waters puts up a fight worthy of the 

 salmon. 



