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tail. In the same work the large-mouth bass of 

 the Southern states is classified under the head 

 of " brook trout," the author being misled appar- 

 ently by its Southern name of " trout," and goes 

 on to say that they "grow much larger than 

 Northern trout," and that they "are fished for 

 with the same arrangement of tackle as the 

 striped bass or salmon." A contributor to the 

 work, however, from Buffalo, New York, treats 

 briefly and vaguely of still-fishing with minnows 

 and crawfish. Brief notes also from Southern and 

 Western anglers give fair descriptions of the ap- 

 pearance and habits of both species of black-bass. 

 Frank Forester (Henry W. Herbert) knew no 

 more of the black-bass than Mr. Brown, and 

 acknowledges that he never caught one. That 

 old Nestor of angling, Uncle Thad Norris, in his 

 "American Angler's Book," 1864, gives the de- 

 scriptions of Louis Agassiz and Dr. Holbrook 

 for the black-bass, and then relates his only ex- 

 perience as follows, " I have taken this bass in 

 the vicinity of St. Louis, on a moonshiny night, 

 by skittering a light spoon over the surface of the 

 water, while standing on the shore." Genio C. 

 Scott in his " Fishing in American Waters," 

 1869, has less to^say, and evidently knew less of 



