XIV 



The Angler and the Striped Bass 



" The stately Bass, old Neptune's fleeting Post 

 That tides it out and in from sea to coast." 



WOOD : New England's Prospect, 1634. 



TRIPED BASS weigh- 

 ing from two pounds to 

 half a hundred pounds 

 are taken by rod and 

 reel. The heavy speci- 

 mens are often hooked 

 by the angler plying his 

 tackle for the smaller 

 bass, but they are really 

 the game of the surfman 

 him of the tarpon-like paraphernalia. 

 These big bass are angled for in the heavy 

 surf, while the smaller specimens are 

 taken in calmer waters the mild surf that 

 plays over sod banks, and in coves along 

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1 How pitiful, how trivial 



must appear 

 The scenes they left 

 the crowd, the noisy 

 mart." 



