76 SUMMER ANGLING 



the fly can of a surety catch "pumpkin-seeds" by 

 the same method. 



The other members of the sun-fish family, be- 

 sides the well-known Lepomis gibbosits, are the 

 long-eared sun-fish (L. megalotis], known through- 

 out the Mississippi Valley and south-westward to 

 the Rio Grande, and in the north-west, and plen- 

 tiful in Indiana and Illinois ; the yellow belly, or 

 bream (L. auritns], found plentifully east of the 

 Alleghanies from Maine to Florida, and also in 

 Virginia and the Carolinas ; the blue gill (L. pal- 

 lidus), the most widely diffused of all ; the green 

 sun-fish (L. cyanellus}, found in all waters between 

 the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies, and 

 several more not necessary to be specially enu- 

 merated. They are all to be caught with the 

 angle-worm, and are all "boys' fishes." 



One step above the sun-fishes, towards the game 

 fish properly so called, we find the rock bass (or 

 red eye). This fish is fond of quiet, rocky pools, 

 and is a fiercely ' preying and pluckily fighting 

 member of the great bass family. He takes 

 almost everything, from a piece of raw meat to 

 a black beetle, and is best caught with rather 

 larger hooks and stronger tackle than his brother 



