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THEIR CORRECT NAMES. 
Key West, Fla. 
Does the striped bass of the ocean as- 
cend fresh water streams to spawn, or for 
any other reason? 
around St. Paul; in both the Minnesota 
and Mississippi rivers. 
I have caught them 
They are gamey 
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Then there is another fish which is 
known as the golden eye or moon-eye. 
Inch for inch and ounce for ounce I be- 
lieve it is gamier and a better fighter than 
the large mouth bass. 
sportsmen try to catch the golden eye 
with flies. They seldom strike, but with a 
grasshopper you are always sure of a bite. 
I have seen old 

ROCCUS LINEATUS (Bloch). S7R/PED BASS; ROCKFISH, 
and hard to kill. The largest I ever heard 
of being taken in the Minnesota weighed 
6 pounds. The stripes and markings are 
identical with those of the sea bass, and 
the habits are the same. 
Unless you are unusually quick you will 
lose the fish. I should like to know the 
correct name of this moon-eye and another 
fish commonly called sand-pike. teas 
nearly identical in habits with the wall- 

ROCCUS CHRYSOPS (Rafinesque.) WHITE BASS, 
In early summer striped or silver 
bass,.4s; they. are called at, St. Paul, can 
be caught in large numbers. Fish hogs 
catch hundreds in a day. . 
eyed pike. Except for its darker color and 
the absence of the light spot on the tail 
it is sometimes mistaken for a wall-eye. 
The sand pike does not grow large, 3 
