216 STRIPED BASS. 



is content to listen to reason. By this course you will 

 avoid feeling often that sinking of the heart that follows 

 when the strain suddenly ceases on your line, and you 

 know he has escaped.* 



That fine game fish of the southern States usually 

 called bass or red-fish, belongs to another family, and is 

 the Co'f-vina ocellata^ or branded corvina. It is distin- 

 guished by a peculiar black spot, like a drop of ink, near 

 the tail. It furnishes noble sport and excellent eating, 

 abounds in the neighborhood of the Chesapeake Bay, and 

 is highly prized at southern tables. 



* Prepared lines are sold now at all the fishing-tackle shops, and linen lines aro 

 made so fine, beautiful, and strong, that for bass-fishing nothing better is 

 needed. For eurf-fishing use a nine-thread line. 



