BIOLOGICAL 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE QUARRY 



THE SMALL MOUTHED BLACK BASS 



(Micropterus dolomieu) 



KNOW FISH 



* ' T T is good luck to be on the good side of the man 

 that knows Fish," said Walton. My purpose 

 here is to tell something of the natural history 

 of the fishes anglers woo so ardently. Later I will 

 deal more specifically with the habits of the basses and 

 trouts and their relation to that ever-interesting prob- 

 lem, " Fishermen's Luck." 



HISTORICAL 



The biological history of the black basses is covered 

 so ably and scientifically by Dr. Henshall, in his " Book 

 of the Black Bass," that I will touch the subject only 

 in a general way. 



Louden, in his " The Small Mouthed Black Bass," 

 states that the early Jesuit missionaries used the word 

 " achigan " as early as 1655 to designate the small 

 mouthed black bass. The word corresponds with the 

 French word " bas " meaning stocking and certainly 

 these hardy fishers of men must have included " our " 

 fish in their Friday menus. Robert Roosevelt found 

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