THE WEIGHT OF GAME FISH 



a bass a few years since near Cutty Hunk 

 that weighed 76 pounds. 



The largest average catch of bass that 

 I know of was ten fish 58, 56, 54, 53, 51, 

 49, 46, 42 and 36 pounds respectively — an 

 average of 49^ pounds. This catch was 

 made at Graves Point by Mr, Seth Barton 

 French and Mr. John Whipple on August 

 21st, 1881, between 6 and 11 a.m., in a 

 heavy sea and on a rising tide. 



Mr. Thomas Winans and his nephew took 

 in three months' fishing, from stands built 

 on the rocks in front of his house at New- 

 port, 124 bass that weighed 2,921 pounds, 

 the largest being a fish of 60 pounds. 



Catches of bass weighing from 85 to over 

 100 pounds each are said to have been made 

 in the Chesapeake seine-fishing. 



The striped bass was unknown in the 

 waters of the Pacific Ocean until 1875 when 

 the first fingerlings were liberated in San 

 Francisco Bay, They have prospered there. 

 "Statistics gathered for 1900 show 1,251,- 

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