BLACK BASS AND TROUT COMPARED 



creeper) falls a prey to the jaws of both trout and 

 bass; yet of the two, the bass is the more delicate 

 feeder. Time and again I have caught a trout 

 whose mouth was widely distended by a crayfish 

 or young trout, and the wonder came quickly to my 

 angling senses how that trout managed to strike 

 and to be hooked by the fly with his jaws propped 

 wide open by his half -swallowed prey. No black 

 bass was ever caught by my rod when it was in such 

 a gormandizing frenzy. 



Comparatively few anglers fish for black bass 

 with the artificial fly. The practice is one of rela- 

 tively recent date, and facilities for indulging in 

 the sport, particularly in running water, are infre- 

 quent, and often distant from the large cities; yet 

 the charm of casting the feathers for the bass, one 

 of the choicest and gamest of fishes, when once 

 experienced, grows upon the angler almost to the 

 exclusion of any desire to fish by any other method 

 or for any other fish. Old rod-fishermen say that, 

 as a regular angling diet, fly-fishing for black 

 bass never creates a surfeit or leaves a void to be 

 filled. 



The Tiger of the Waters 



The reason for this is apparent to any one who 

 has waded along and cast the flies over a mountain 



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