BAIT-FISHING. 423 
BASS-FISHING. 
All the varieties of bass may be taken either by fly- 
fishing, or trolling, and also by bottom-fishing with live 
bait, dead bait, or various pastes, 
The striped bass in sea-ways is ordinarily taken, 
either by squidding with a bright piece of bone ivory or 
tin provided with hooks, or with the real squid on a drop- 
line. 
He will rise freely in swift clear rivers above the influ- 
ence of tide to a large gaudy salmon-fly, and must be 
fished for, precisely as the salmon, with a two-headed rod 
and salmon tackle. Being a bold strong fish, he fights 
hard, and requires skill and patience to land him 
He may also be trolled for successfully with dead bait, 
or spinning tackle, as the pickerel, or taken at the bottom 
with crab or shrimp. In the spring, and in rivers where 
shad run, there is no more killing bait than shad roe, pre- 
pared as described above. 
The black bass and rock bass of the lakes will’ rise 
freely and afford good sport to a large fly made of scarlet 
ibis and silver pheasant feathers, four wings, two of each, 
with a body of scarlet chenil. They can also be trolled 
for successfully, as described above, or taken with a live 
bait on roving tackle, or with the deadly spoon. For the 
rock bass, the growler, and the pike perch, which two 
latter-named fish are taken precisely in the same manner, 
except that they will not rise to the fly, the common craw- 
fish of the western waters, Astacus Bartoni, is a favorite 
and killing bait. 
