BLACK BASS FISHING 



CHAPTER I. 



Fishing Districts. 



Foe the purpose of tliis book I may divide 

 the fishing waters of North Carolina into three 

 sections, which are also more or less the natural 

 geographical divisions. In other words, the first 

 section embraces the territory west of the crest 

 of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the second 

 section takes in the greater part of the State, 

 extending down to tidewater, where the third 

 section begins and goes on to the ocean. 



The principal rivers of the first section, which 

 plowing westward, make their way into the 

 mighty Mississippi either directly or through 

 the Ohio river, are the Kanawha and the Ten- 

 nessee. The former river, known in ISTorth Car- 

 olina as ISTew River, has as its tributaries in 

 Wautauga, Ashe and Alleghany counties, several 

 rapid, fine, mountain streams running mostly 



