loa PRACTICAL FLY FISHING 



the Chippewas of the Lake Superior Country still using 

 the name " achigan " in the eighties. 



The first small mouthed black bass recognized by 

 science was a specimen described by Lacepede in 1801. 

 It happened to be a mutilated specimen and as a re- 

 sult received the unfortunate generic name "microp- 

 terus," meaning small fin. 



The small mouthed black bass is often called " red 

 eye " by many anglers. 



RANGE 



The original range of the small mouthed black bass 

 was probably restricted to the Great Lakes region, the 

 northern parts of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and 

 perhaps the headwaters of certain Allegheny streams. 

 Frank Forester in his " Fish and Fishing " says that 

 the black bass was found in the basin of the St. Law- 

 rence and the Great Lakes and was distributed in New 

 York via the Erie Canal which was opened in 1825. 

 We know that the small mouthed black bass was intro- 

 duced into the Potomac in the early fifties and in other 

 Eastern rivers soon after. Since then his range has 

 been greatly extended by transplanting in most of the 

 cold water streams of northern U. S. and Canada and 

 in several European countries. 



DESCRIPTION 



The small mouthed black bass is too well known to 

 warrant much of a description here. 



The coloration of the small mouthed black bass 



