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but owing to exhaust water from steam 

 pumps the lake water is kept at a high tem- 

 perature in summer and seldom freezes in 

 winter. J. M. Sloan, Crown, Pa. 



ANSWER. 



It is doubtful if you can find a fish of 

 much value that can live in water whose 

 temperature is 80 degrees continuously. 

 Not only is the water in itself too warm, 

 but the fish are enervated and rendered 

 liable to attack by various diseases. The 

 common bullhead would perhaps do as 

 well as any species you might select. It 

 would reach a weight of half a pound or 

 more in such a pond and is a good food 

 fish. If you should not wish to try bull- 

 heads the next best species is the bluegill 

 (Lcpomis pallidas). It reaches half a 

 pound, is an excellent food fish, thrives 

 well in small ponds and might do fait ly 

 well in water of that temperature. Other 

 species that might be tried are the rock 

 bass (Amblophlites rupestris) and the large 

 mouth black bass. Any of these species 

 can probably be obtained in the sluggish 

 streams or ponds in your neighborhood. — 

 Editor. 



CAUGHT 600 TROUT IN 3 DAYS. 

 Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Will- 

 iam Kitchen, Miss Amy Haines and Harley Wood 

 returned last Friday from a fishing trip on Trout 

 creek. The last named was appointed press agent 

 because of his undoubted veracity, and from him 

 were secured the following facts — also a dozen 

 trout, as corroborative evidence. The party fished 

 3 days and caught 600 fish, about half of which 

 were also secured the following facts — a dozen 

 measuring more than 6 inches. Many not more 

 than 5 inches long were filled with eggs. — Sumpter 

 (Ore.) Miner. 



Coquina, how do you like that slaughter 

 of minnows? The above party averaged 

 only 100 fish each, so if they were out a 

 week or 2 the number caught was not ex- 

 cessive. It is the size of the fish taken 

 that every sportsman will protest against. 

 J. B. N., Tacoma, Wash. 



I do not like it at all. In the first place, 

 it is probably a newspaper fake as to the 

 number of fish taken, but we may safely 

 conclude that there is no exaggeration as 

 to the size of the fish, for the people who 

 took them would have been glad to say 

 the smallest weighed a pound if they had 

 been in a position to do so. I assume Ore- 

 gon has a 6 inch trout law. If not, she 

 should enact one at an early date. If there 

 be 'such a law in effect, then these people 

 should be punished as they deserve. — Edi- 

 tor. 



THE LARGE MOUTH BLACK BASS. 



In the several bays and ponds near this 

 city there are numerous large mouth bass 

 which nearly all anglers persist in calling 

 mud bass. They look to me like Oswegos, 

 and I am anxious to know if there is a 



third variety of bass of similar character- 

 istics. 



L. B. Hawley, M. D., Rochester, N, Y. 



ANSWER. 



The fish to which you refer and which 

 many of your anglers call mud bass is un- 

 doubtedly the large mouth uiack bass, or 

 Oswego bass. The best common name for 

 this species is the large mouth black bass, 

 but it is known in different parts of the 

 country by many different names, as for 

 instance, Oswego bass in New York State, 

 mud bass in various places in the North, 

 straw bass in Northern Indiana and else- 

 where, chub and Welshman in Virginia and 

 North Carolina, and trout and green trout 

 throughout the South. There is only one 

 other species of black bass, namely, the 

 small mouth black bass. 



For full descriptions of these and all 

 other game fishes of this country see 

 "American Game Fishes," edited by G. O. 

 Shields.— B. W. E. 



IT WAS A GERMAN CARP. 



A subscriber recently sent me a clipping 

 from a weekly paper of Monticello, N. Y,., 

 which stated that Mr. Crossman, of Co- 

 chocton, caught, in the Delaware river, a 

 wall-eyed pike that weighed 17% pounds. I 

 wrote Mr. Crossman as follows : 



I am informed you recently caught a 

 wall-eyed pike which weighed 17%. pounds. 

 Will you kindly advise me if this is true. It 

 sounds like a newspaper yarn, and 1 should 

 like to know if the fish really weighed that 

 much. 



Mr. Crossman replied: 



The fish was a German carp weighing 

 l 7% pounds, taken from the Delaware. I 

 have caught wall-eyed pike weighing 12 

 pounds and am assured that pike from 17 

 to 20 pounds in weight are in this vicinity, 

 A. Crossman, Damascus, Pa. 



THE GRUNT OF A FISH HOG. 

 Michael Karpen, of Chicago, a member 

 of the firm of S. Karpen & Bro., manu- 

 facturers of furniture, went fishing. On 

 his return he had himself photographed 

 with his catch and sent the picture to a 

 trade journal. Unless there was something 

 the matter with the camera, Mike is not 

 exactly pretty ; in fact, he looks the fish hog 

 he proclaims himself to be. Lest there 

 should be any doubt as to his status, he 

 sent with the photo a lovely poem of which 

 the following is a sample : 

 "Mike Karpen once a-fishing went, 

 To catch fish his mind was bent. 

 A great fisher before the Lord is Mike : 

 He catches whales, carps and pike. 

 Here you see him, to the right he stands 

 With a big string of fish just pulled on 



land," 



