FOR NATURELOVERS AND ANGLERS. 



Familiar Fish : Their Habits and 

 Capture. 



A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish. 

 By Eugene McCarthy. With an Introduction 

 by Dr. David Starr Jordan^ President of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, and numerous Illus- 

 trations. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50. 



This iiitorming and practical liook descrilies in a most inter- 

 esting fashion the habits and environment ot our familiar fresh- 

 water game fish, including anadromous hsh like the salmon and 

 sea trout. The life of a fish is traced in a manner very interest- 

 ing to nature-lovers, while the simple and useful explanations ol 

 the methods of angling lor different fish will he appreciated by 

 fishermen old and young. As one of the most experienced of 

 American fishermen, Mr. McCarthy is able to speak \\ith au- 

 thority regarding salmon, trout, ouananiche, bass, pike, and pick- 

 erel, and other fish which are the object of the angler's pursuit. 

 The book is proflisely illustrated with pictures and serviceable 

 diagrams. 



" Tfle book compresses into a moderate space a larger amount (>f interesting 

 knowledge about fish and lishing than an)' other volume that has appeared this 

 season." — Chicago Tribune. 



*'It gives, in simple language and illustrations, much that it will he profit- 

 able for our boys to know before they begin to lay out their mone\', and much 

 information that will be useful to them when they begin to go fartlicr afield 

 than their own immediate local waters." — Oulinir. 



*' One of the handsomest, most practical, most informing books that we 

 know. The author treats his subject with scientific thoroughness, but with a 

 light toncll that makes the book easy reading. . . . The book should be the 

 compani(^n of all who go a-fishing." — Nc'iu York Mail an, I Express. 



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