198 Big Game Fishes 
catches ranging from fifteen to fifty pounds. 
The luck of Harvey Cedars is a trite saying 
among the anglers who know it well, and the fine 
fishes taken here illustrate the singular fact that 
there are many famous fishing resorts along the 
Atlantic coast near New York for some reason 
not so well known as far inferior places many 
miles distant. 
As game, the channel-bass recalls the striped 
bass. It lives upon crustaceans, mollusks, and 
sea-worms, and has been seen to root and tear 
up the weeds in shallow water in its search for 
food. This explains its presence along the line 
of surf in the shallow waters of the great sandy 
beaches of the coast, the home of numerous bur- 
rowing crustaceans. While an oceanic fish, it 
enters rivers, being caught as far from the sea 
as Jacksonville in the St. Johns, and according 
to Dr. C. J. Kenworthy, in Crescent Lake and 
Lake George, Florida, where large fish are 
taken with a spinner. As to their spawning 
habits, Mr. S. C. Clark states that the channel- 
bass spawn in the Indian River, Florida, in 
August and September, the young fish being 
found there at all times. The adults appear 
at the inlets of Florida in January and Feb- 
