PREFACE 



A FEW lines only are necessary to explain 

 the object with which this volume on the 

 Basses is put forth. It is intended as a 

 '^ companion and sequel to the Editor's book 

 on Brook Trout, which from all sources has received 

 a most kindly and flattering reception — a favor he 

 would bespeak for the present issue. 



The shortcomings of the previous work have, it 

 is hoped, been obviated in this volume. AU the 

 matter has been specially written for it, and a 

 greater number of colored pictures, reproduced by 

 better and later methods, have been used. The main 

 object has been to supply readers with complete 

 information, not only how, when, and where to fish 

 for bass, but also to enable them to find "poetic 

 descriptions, entertaining accounts, and pleasing 

 vicissitudes of angling," so that they may catch a 

 glimpse, if possible, of the glamour and light of 

 nature-study, without which half the delight in fish- 

 ing would be lost. 



So far, little or nothing has been said concerning 



