POPULAR FRESH- WATER FISHES 



Bass, Big-Mouth Black (Large-Mouth Black 

 Bass, Oswego Bass, Jumper, Jumping Bass, 

 Leaper, Leaping Bass, Night Bass, Moss Bass, 

 Trout, Chub, Welshman, Marsh Bass, River 

 Bass, Rock Bass, Slough Bass, White Bass, 

 Green Bass, Spotted Bass, Green Perch, Yel- 

 low Perch, Black Perch, Speckled Hen, etc.) : 

 Caught with a four-ounce or six-ounce fly rod 

 in fly-fishing and a six- ounce or eight-ounce 

 bait rod in bait-fishing. My line for fly-fish- 

 ing is a fine one of enamelled silk; for bait 

 fishing I use a fine, plain, black raw-silk line. 

 My leader is a fine, round, brown-stained, 

 single gut of twelve feet in length; my reel, a 

 light-weight rubber-and-german-silver multi- 

 plier for bait-fishing and an ordinary common- 

 click rubber reel for fly-fishing. Range: At- 

 lantic slope of the continent east of the Rocky 

 Mountains, occurring in the Great Lakes, the 

 upper part of the St. Lawrence and Missis- 

 sippi basins, the Red River of the North as 

 far as Manitoba, in latitude 50, all the rivers 

 of the Southern States, from the James to the 

 St. John, and in the lower streams and bayous 

 connected with the Gulf of Mexico, to Texas, 

 latitude 27. Weighs up to eight pounds. 

 One weighing twenty pounds is said to have 

 been taken in Florida. The appropriate flies 

 and other lures are the same as those enu- 

 merated for the Small-Mouth Black Bass. 



Bass, Small-Mouth Black (Jumper, Jumping 

 Bass, Leaper, Leaping Bass, Perch, Trout, 

 Mountain Trout, Bronze- Backer, Marsh Bass, 

 Night Bass, River Bass, Rock Bass, Slough 

 Bass, Little Bass, Little-Mouth Bass, White 

 Bass, Green Bass, Spotted Bass, Green Perch, 

 Yellow Perch, Black Perch, Speckled Hen, 

 etc.) : Caught in ponds, lakes, and rivers with 

 the artificial fly and helgramite, crawfish, 

 cricket, shrimp, grasshopper, worm, and 

 small fish, on a four-ounce or six-ounce fly 



