6 THE ANGLER'S ANNUAL 



Carp-Sucker (Carp, Spear-Fish, Sail-Fish, 



euill-Back, Skim- Back, etc.): Caught on 

 rook Trout tackle and worm bait in the 

 Ohio River. 



Carp-Sucker (Carp, Susquehanna Carp, 

 Mattapony Carp, etc.) : Caught on Brook 

 Trout tackle and worm bait east of the Alle- 

 ghanies, from New York to Alabama. Com- 

 mon in Pennsylvania and in the Mattapony 

 and Pamunky rivers of Virginia. Attains a 

 weight of three pounds. 



Catfish (Cat, White Cat, Sea Cat, White 

 Catfish, Halibut-Steak, Bullhead, Channel Cat, 

 Blue Cat, etc.): Caught in bottom-fishing in 

 rivers, lakes, and ponds; the common one- 

 pound to four-pound Bullhead of the North 

 and East, and the two-pound to five-pound 

 White Catfish of the Potomac and Susque- 

 hanna, on light tackle; the four-pound to ten- 

 pound Blue Catfish of the West and South, on 

 medium tackle, and the one-hundred-pound 

 Catfish of the Great Lakes, and the one-hun- 

 dred-and-fifty-pound Channel Cat of the 

 Mississippi, on heavy tackle. Baits: Worm 

 and small fish. 



Chub : Caught on light Brook Trout tackle 

 with worm bait. There are about fifty species 

 in the West, Far West, and the South known 

 as Chub and Mullet. They average from two 

 to eighteen inches. Some forms attain a 

 length of six feet. These are caught on heavy 

 tackle. Utah Lake has two species. Numer- 

 ous other species abound between the Rocky 

 Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. Among 

 these are the Pescadito of the Rio Grande 

 region, the Leather-Sided Minnow of the Provo 

 River and Salt Lake Basin, and the Red- 

 Sided Shiner of the upper Missouri and the 

 Great Lakes. California, Washington, Ore- 

 gon, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico have 

 several species of Chub known generally as 

 Chub and Mullet. The Columbia and Sacra- 

 mento rivers have a species referred to as 

 Pike and Shepawl that attains a length of four 

 feet. Another species, found in the lower 

 course of the Rio Colorado, attains a length of 

 five feet. The Split-Tail, eighteen inches in 

 length, is common in the Sacramento. The 



