POPULAR FRESH- WATER FISHES 15 



Sucker, Red Horse (Mullet, Brook Mullet, 

 Lake Shad, etc.): Caught on Black Bass 

 tackle and worm bait pretty generally east of 

 the Rocky Mountains excepting Eastern New 

 England. Attains a weight of four pounds. 



Sunfish (Pumpkin Seed, Sunny, Brim, Perch, 

 Pearch, Red-Breast, Red-Headed Bream, Red- 

 Bellied Bream, Copper-Nosed Bream, Red- 

 Bellied Perch, Blue Sunfish, Blue Bream, 

 Dollardee, Black Warmouth, Goggle-Eye, War- 

 mouth, Big Mouth, Sun Perch, etc.): Caught 

 in the ponds and lakes in the Great Lake 

 region and the coastwise streams from Maine 

 to Georgia on the artificial fly and the angle- 

 worm with light Brook Trout fly tackle. 

 Haunts quiet places in clear and still waters. 

 Weighs up to one and a half pounds in the 

 lakes ; averages smaller in the ponds. 



Tench: Caught in weedy spots of muddy- 

 bottom places with worm bait and small Carp 

 tackle. Common in the Potomac and other 

 waters. Measures a few inches in length. 



Trout, Brook (Speckled Trout, Mountain 

 Trout, Fontinalis, Speckled Beauty, Spotted 

 Trout, etc.) : Caught in the spring and summer 

 in clear streams, lakes, and ponds, on the arti- 

 ficial fly. Favors eddies, riffles, pools, and 

 deep spots under the banks of the stream and 

 near rocks and fallen trees. Feeds on small 

 fish, flies, and worms. Breeds in the autumn. 

 Weighs up to ten pounds in large waters. 

 There is a record of one weighing eleven 

 pounds. This specimen was taken in North- 

 western Maine. Averages three quarters of a 

 pound to one pound and a half in the streams, 

 and one pound to three pounds in the lakes 

 and ponds. Occurs between latitude 3 2 J and 

 55, in the lakes and streams of the Atlantic 

 watershed, near the sources of a few rivers 

 flowing into the Mississippi and the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and some of the southern affluents of 

 Hudson Bay, its range being limited by the 

 western foothills of the Alleghanies, extending 

 about three hundred miles from the coast, ex- 

 cept about the Great Lakes, in the northern 

 tributaries of which it abounds. It also in- 

 habits the headwaters of the Chattahoochee, in 

 the southern spurs of the Georgia Alleghanies 



