THE BASSES: FRES H-W ATER AND MARINE 



enjoy the sport and have added to their table fare 

 a most excellent food-fish since the successful 

 transfer of the fish. On Sundays and holidays the 

 shores of San Francisco Bay and the banks of the 

 San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, as well as of 

 th'eir tributaries, are lined with anglers equipped 

 for the new fishing. 



The records of the striped-bass clubs and private 

 fishing-stands along the Atlantic coast unfortu- 

 nately show little now but vanished glories. From 

 one cause or another, and sometimes without appar- 

 ent cause, the sport has dwindled to insignificant 

 proportions, and some clubs which were once very 

 prosperous are at present almost deserted. Mr. 

 Daniel B. Fearing, of Newport, R. I., has kindly 

 furnished some data concerning the catch and notes 

 upon the supposed unfavorable influences which 

 have destroyed the bass angling. 



The West Island Club, West Island, R. I., occu- 

 pied grounds mad,e famous by the writings of 

 Genio C. Scott. The records cover a period of 

 forty years and show considerable variation in the 

 number of fish caught. The best year, 1874, 

 yielded 2,406 bass, and the poorest catch numbered 

 only eleven fish, taken in 1904. 



The Cuttyhunk Club, Cuttyhunk Island, Mass., 

 organized in 1865, has never reached the record of 

 its first year, when 1,174 bass were captured; and 

 during the last fifteen years the results of angling 



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