Lonely Island, Georgian Bay 



The Small' Mouthed Bass 



CHAPTER I. 



Geographical Distribution. 



Although the small-mouthed bass is essentially 

 £\^ a product of the Great Lakes of Canada, yet, during 

 the past century, it has been introduced artificially 

 into so many parts of North America, and so few records 

 have been kept of its distribution, that it is difhcult now to 

 trace its genealogy, except to a very limited extent. 



Frank Forrester (1849), in a book entitled Fish and 

 Fishing, says that this fish is peculiar to the basin of the 

 Saint Lawrence and the Great Lakes, and found its way into 

 the Hudson River through the Erie canal; he makes no 

 mention of its having been taken anywhere in the United 



