174 BOOK OF THE BLACK BASS. 



usual for the Bass of the North-west to cease biting and 

 retire to the deepest water during an unusually heated 

 term in summer. 



The fact that the best season for Black Bass fishing 

 varies in different sections in the North being from July 

 till October; in the West and most northerly of the South- 

 ern States in the spring and fall ; and in the extreme South 

 during the winter season would naturally lead one to 

 suppose that the period of dormancy in the Black Bass 

 occurs at different seasons in different localities, and is 

 influenced by climatic conditions, or the supply of food. 



