32 SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



might add that this result will be obtained wherever the 

 two species exist in the same waters. 



I give the opinions of a few anglers who have fished for 

 both species in the same ivaters, as all other comparisons 

 are of no weight. A small-mouthed Bass in a swift, rocky 

 stream is, as a matter of course, superior in gameness to a 

 large-mouth in a weedy pond, and this holds good as to the 

 brook trout or any other game-fish. 



A gentleman (" Opinicon ") of Utica, N. Y., expresses 

 himself as follows : 



"Pound for pound the small-mouth excels its brother, the 

 large-mouth, as a game fish, but in this respect only; taken in 

 cold or deep water, the large-mouth Bass, when running from 

 two to six pounds, offers to the angler using fine tackle as good 

 sport as could be desired. The writer has, from choice, angled 

 for the large-mouth in preference to the other, principally for tho 

 reason that the former were of good size. During the past sum- 

 mer, while fishing on a lake forming a part of the St. Lawrence 

 river, from one side of the skiff could be taken the small-mouth 

 of one and a half pounds, and from the other side, in the same 

 water, large-mouths, weighing from three to five pounds. These 

 fish were full of life and game. 



"The main difference between the two kinds of Black Bass be- 

 ing, aside from weight, that when struck, the large-mouth less 

 frequently broke water, though they would sulk and fight for 

 every inch of line with as much determination as ever shown by 

 the small-mouth, and the angler having one on his hook had 

 business on hand." 



" Kingfisher," of Cincinnati, Ohio, says of the large- 

 mouthed Bass : 



" Since we began fishing the North Michigan waters I have be- 



