Favorite Fish and Fishing 



Breeding Habits lows, usually, but when such situations are 

 not available, clay or mud bottom, or the 

 roots of aquatic plants are utilized, espe- 

 cially by the large-mouth bass. During 

 incubation the eggs are guarded and tended 

 by the parent fish, and hatch in ten days or 

 two weeks, the fry remaining on the nest, 

 guarded by the male fish, for several days, 

 . when they disperse to find suitable hiding 

 places, feeding on minute organisms that 

 abound in all natural waters. 



Season" 1 * ^ e spawning season of the black bass 



varies considerably, owing to its extensive 

 range and consequent variation in the tem- 

 perature of waters. In Florida and the 

 extreme South it is as early as March or 

 April, in the Middle West in May or June, 

 and at the northern limit of its distribution 

 as late as July. Owing to this variation, 

 laws to protect the species during the breed- 

 ing season must vary accordingly. As the 

 brooding fish are easily taken from their 

 nests with snare, jig or spear, the laws for 

 their protection should be rigidly enforced, 

 otherwise a pond or small lake might soon 

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