THE WHITE BASS 



ounces, with small click-reel and very fine enamelled 

 silk line, will give the best satisfaction. Small flies 

 tied on hooks No. 5 to No. 7, and of almost any of 

 the standard patterns for brook-trout, will attract 

 this bass. The hackles, the drakes, stone-fly, Mon- 

 treal, Henshall, Seth Green, silver doctor, and sev- 

 eral others have been used with success. Norris 

 and a companion once caught, in a small Canadian 

 creek opposite Detroit, near sundown, twenty-five 

 white bass, averaging nearly one pound each, with 

 a fly whose wings were made of the end of a 

 peacock's tail feather. " In the Ouachita River, 

 Arkansas, a scarlet and white fly seems to be the 

 favorite lure." 



For bait-fishing use a black-bass or trout rod 

 weighing seven or eight ounces and about eight 

 feet long. The reel should be a good multiplier, 

 and the line a very small calibre of braided silk. 

 A fine gut leader three feet long, and hooks num- 

 bered 3 or 4, on fine gut snells, form part of the 

 outfit. The bait should be a small minnow hooked 

 through both lips. The angler may fish from 

 points at the edge of currents or in the deep pools 

 of streams, but an anchored boat offers the best 

 opportunity. The bait may be manipulated either 

 by still-fishing or by casting. In good locali- 

 ties, when the fish are moving freely, the angler 

 will have little time to attend to anything but the 

 fishing. 



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