TABLE 35. 



Number of bass per 100 m of shoreline, Tongue River Reservoir, 

 1974-75. 



^Gregory and Penkal 1975 



'^LMB = largemouth bass 

 SMB = smallmouth bass 



TABLE 36. Back-calculated lengths (mm) of smallmouth bass. Tongue River Reser- 

 voir, 1976. 



SOURCE: Penkal 1977 

 CONVERSION: i mm = .0394 in 



in Table 37. Largemouth bass growth also appears to be better in the Tongue 

 River Reservoir when compared to other studies from northern lakes. A range 

 of 292 mm (Kuehn 1949) to 318 mm (Bennett 1937) was reported for largemouth 

 bass at their fourth annuli in Minnesota and Wisconsin, respectively. In the 

 Tongue River Reservoir, the average calculated length of the 1972 year class 

 was 329 mm. It may be concluded that the habitat conditions in the Tongue 

 River Reservoir are favorable for bass growth. 



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