THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN AND NATURAL 





caught by wiers and stake-nets, the latter 

 should be placed one mile al leant from the 

 entrance of all the rivers, in order to k < -< ■ | > 

 the tide-way clear for thefish to reach the 

 pools and spawning grounds. We believe 

 also that the money spent in building fish 

 hatcheries and maintaining ofticeis, could be 

 better and more profitably expended in im- 

 proving the rivers and paying guardians or 

 preventive officers to stop Indiana and others 

 from spearing salmon while depositing their 

 ova. It is in these interior places thai hi 

 and officers are required. Leave nature to do 

 its work, and place guardians on the spawn- 

 ing-grounds to prevent the fish from being 

 disturbed, and doubtless a change for the 

 better will soon appear. Parties renting a 

 river, should be compelled to guard the 

 estuary, seeing that the nets are properly 

 placed, and the meshes of legal size. 1 1 this 

 is done, we will hear of salmon becoming 

 abundant — the fly richer and net owner will 

 have their share. The Government may do 

 with the hatcheries what they think proper. 

 We are satisfied that if salmon are not 

 interfered with on their spawning-grounds, 

 that more healthy fish will return to the sea 

 from the natural hatchery than from the 

 artificial one. — C. 



BLACK BASS AND PIKE-PERCH. 



We have had verbal accounts from various 

 localities relative to inland fishing this season. 

 Good sized Black bass and Pike-perch (Dore) 

 are evidently abundant in some of the Quebec 

 rivers, but especially the Canadian waters of 

 Lake Champlain. Early in the season. Pass 

 were found occupying grounds wherein schools 

 of minnows occurred about sunrise. Sports- 

 men discovering the fish thus situated were 

 then generally successful in taking Pass with 

 a rly resembling a grasshopper. Black Pass 

 are, at certain seasons, gregarious, following a 

 leader, in the chase of small fishes ; it is 

 astonishing how Bass manages to secure 

 sufficient of these small quick swimming 

 fishes, but they do destroy numbers of them 

 daily. All the species of fresh-water and 

 marine Pass are truly carniverous, preying 

 on the weaker forms occurring in the same 

 waters. We have opened the stomach of a 

 large Sea Bass, sent to us from St. John, 

 N. P., which contained thirteen adult herrings. 

 Sometimes Black Bass have the same inquisi- 

 tive nature noticed in the salmon ami trout, 



by rifling to the artifl 

 colours of the lai 

 do not generally 



the day when the 



Bepurate retiring under il 



plants or to n ckj i 



noon, when they return water in 



search of food. Pike-perch ( D 



ous feeders, especially in the ruon 



they are in cool -hallow wa 



they do not, as a i ule, 



plants, bur tUOve to deep '.I iii 



which to reel at a convenient depth . 



devour any small fish pat 



them. The habits ol Pike-perch 

 unlike the common Yellow Perch when 

 latter attain adult form, it becotni 

 water wanderer, particularly when- I 



large pond- surrounded by marsh 

 accounts for one making a good da 

 over a certain ground, while tie 

 the same place may turn OUl 



is therefore two portions ol the day— mor 

 and evening — that these fishes are on the d 

 Many persons who go fishing, return h 

 either disheartened or d rhen they 



meet with bad luck, often under the impn - 

 that no fishes were in the water, while in 

 they were there — on their rest 

 but difficult tO discover. A _ 

 of the presence ot large tish, is in noti 

 minnows leaping over the BUlface ol the 

 water; the enemy is beneath them, and it ifl 

 generally in the neighbourhood of such p 

 that large Bass, Pike-perch, and M 

 are to be found. We make these few ren 



to give encouragement to the disappointed 



fisherman. Go to the same p . and 



with a little experience, o, be the 

 result. — C. 



A rillME FISH. 



Mr. M. Wright, proprietor of the ' 

 Saloon 7 1 St. I'rbain street. Montreal, while 

 trolling for fish on the south side of thi 8 

 Lawrence, dear the fool of Lachit 

 struck a large Pike-perch (Luci I ttrt- 



cana) commonly called Dore in tlii< P 



His tackle consisted ol a good silk line, 

 and reel. The bail beinj 

 gold and silver spoon : its concave Bide is 

 The fish is .'if inches long, with the folio 

 circumference: — before pectoral tins hi in 

 centre of body IS inches; front o\' anal tin I I 

 inches. Weight 13 lbs. Attach. I U) the 



