198 Big Game Fishes 



catches ranging from fifteen to fifty pounds. 

 The luck of Harvey Cedars is a trite saying 

 among the anglers who know it well, and the fine 

 fishes taken here illustrate the singular fact that 

 there are many famous fishing resorts along the 

 Atlantic coast near New York for some reason 

 not so well known as far inferior places many 

 miles distant. 



As game, the channel-bass recalls the striped 

 bass. It lives upon crustaceans, mollusks, and 

 sea-worms, and has been seen to root and tear 

 up the weeds in shallow water in its search for 

 food. This explains its presence along the line 

 of surf in the shallow waters of the great sandy 

 beaches of the coast, the home of numerous bur- 

 rowing crustaceans. While an oceanic fish, it 

 enters rivers, being caught as far from the sea 

 as Jacksonville in the St. Johns, and according 

 to Dr. C. J. Kenworthy, in Crescent Lake and 

 Lake George, Florida, where large fish are 

 taken with a spinner. As to their spawning 

 habits, Mr. S. C. Clark states that the channel- 

 bass spawn in the Indian River, Florida, in 

 August and September, the young fish being 

 found there at all times. The adults appear 

 at the inlets of Florida in January and Feb- 



