Black Sea-Bass are deep-water bottom- 

 feeders, fond of mussel -beds and sea-weed, 

 They mostly feed between change of tides 

 and rarely venture beyond bays and inlets. 

 Are wild, ravenous, and bite freely. 



Habitat from Maine to Georgia. Or- 

 dinary weight from three to five pounds. 



For tackle use strong flaxen line of from 

 two hundred to two hundred and fifty feet. 

 Herring's Sea-bass Hooks, Nos. I2T to 

 2oT (or Kirby's Nos. i and 2), and sinker 

 of one pound. 



Bait with shrimp, clam, soft-crab. Draw 

 in with taut line. After their bite pull 

 resolutely and quickly. 



STRIPED SEA-BASS. 



Labrax Lineatus. 



Also known as "Striped Bass" and 

 " Rock-fish." Found off the coast and in 

 bays and estuaries from Maine to Caro- 

 lina. They breed at the fresh-water heads 

 of ocean-debouching streams. Said to 

 reach Lake Ontario by way of the St. 



