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tidal 1)asin at the foot of Washington Monnment, up to 4 

 pounds 10 ounces in weight — 18 taken Ijy one l)oat on I'"eb- 

 ruary 22. 



Native trout have always been caught in the triinitaries of 

 Difficult Run, and a couple of these little runs ha\'e been pre- 

 served and overstocked, the surplus running out into the Po- 

 tomac. Dozens have been taken this season below the Little 

 h'alls, Init only Simple Simon would go trout fishing in the 

 Potomac. 



In the upper river, between the two falls, hundreds of 

 thousands of the yellow pike perch or wall-eyed pike have 

 been planted, but so far ha\'e not rewarded the angler's 

 efforts to locate them. 



Rock bass, or goggle-eye, from the west, are common in 

 the upper Potomac, and in seining the Chesapeake and Ohio 

 canal one winter the Bureau of Fisheries found hundreds of 

 these fish and restored them to the river, though not many 

 are reported as caught in these waters. Their cousin, the 

 warmouth perch, also introduced from the west by the 

 I'ureau. is found in every tidewater pool of the lower river, 

 and are caught every fishing day on the fly by local anglers, 

 using bass tackle. 



Crappie there are in respectable plenty from western 

 rivers; the upper river is full of small-mouth bass from the 

 original stocking, before the war, from Wheeling Creek, and 

 numerous plantings since from the Mississippi Valley ; Mis- 

 sissippi or spotted catfish occur in large numbers about the 

 Great Falls, of good size and growing in popularity for their 

 gameness and flavor. With these, b)' accident, were also 

 ])lante(l specimens of the fork-tailed or channel cat of the 

 Mississippi, which reaches the weight of 150 pounds in its 

 home waters, and has been taken here of 30 pounds. 



Carp from China via Germany — that is always a red rag 

 to the prejudiced — is a source of much enjoyment, and food 

 to one class of fishermen, and since its young are the main 

 dependence of the bass for food, ought to have the toleration 



