THE YELLOW BASS 



IN 1860 Dr, Theodore Gill described the west- 

 em white perch, better known as yellow bass 

 or brassy bass, from type specimens collected 

 in the vicinity of St. Louis and at New 

 Orleans. The fish had long been known to fisher- 

 men, but had received no scientific description up 

 to that time. 



The genus Morone was established by Mitchill 

 in 1814 for the white perch and some other fish 

 which he supposed to be nearly related to it. The 

 only two American members of this genus are 

 those above mentioned, one of them living in salt 

 water, brackish water, or fresh-water ponds in the 

 East, the other inhabiting the Mississippi Valley, 

 extending a short distance up the Ohio and into 

 certain streams and lakes of northern Indiana, — 

 lakes Tippecanoe, Eagle, Pike, Centre, and Chap- 

 man, — also Eel River. 



Description 



The yellow bass resembles the white perch in 

 shape and is very different from the white bass. 



