The Black Bass 



leaping from the surface, which, to my sur- 

 prise, proved to be my hooked fish the 

 line making a long detour in the swift 

 water. 



I have heard many anglers declare that Leap of the 

 a black bass could leap five feet high, when 

 as a matter of fact they leap but a few 

 inches, usually, and occasionally one, or at 

 most three feet, though I think two feet 

 nearer the limit. By an examination of 

 Mr. A. Radcliffe Dugmore's photograph, 

 reproduced herewith, it will readily be seen 

 that the leaps are not very high ones. 

 A black bass is in the air but a second or 

 two, and to catch him in the act as Mr. 

 Dugmore has done must be considered a 

 wonderful achievement. The picture shows 

 the bass returning to the water, with either 

 the head or the shoulders at, or beneath, the 

 surface, while the displaced water at his 

 point of emergence still shows plainly 

 standing up, as it were. This proves that 

 the bass regains the surface as soon as the 

 displaced water, or rather before the up- 

 heaved water finds its level, which could 

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