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their being eaten by the adult bass. The 

 exhibition tanks of an aquarium are not 

 very suitable for the rearing of fishes, 

 but some of the young bass have grown 

 to be about three inches in length. 



An incident occurred at one time, 

 while seining for black bass for exhibi- 

 tion, which illustrates what they can do 

 in the line of jumping. A haul was 

 being made with the seine ; the men 

 were rowing in with one end of it, when 



specimens in a large tin bucket perfo- 

 rated with holes, the bucket being 

 placed in the water tank attached to a 

 locomotive, which was supplied with 

 water at various stations on the railway. 

 The young bass were placed in the basin 

 of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at 

 Cumberland, Maryland. In a compar- 

 atively short time the black bass were 

 distributed through the Potomac basin. 

 Since that time the fish commissioners 



BIG-MOUTHED BASS IN REPOSE. 



within a few feet of the shore in shal- 

 low water, as a stroke was being made 

 with one of the oars, a bass ten or more 

 inches in length leaped out of the water 

 toward the boat ; the leap was high 

 enough to pass over the gunwale, and 

 the head of the bass struck the man at 

 the oar just above the hip with suffi- 

 cient force to make the fish rebound into 

 the water. One of the men, m relating 

 the incident to the writer said : "It 

 came pretty near jumping into the can." 

 The can was in the boat for the recep- 

 tion and transportation of the bass when 

 taken. 



The method of transporting the small- 

 mouthed black bass from the Ohio to 

 stock the Potomac river, was a novel 

 one. It is said that in the year 1853 

 Mr. W. W. Shriver, of Wheeling, West 

 Virginia, carried a number of small 



of several states, and also private par- 

 ties, have stocked a large number of the 

 streams and ponds, where practical, 

 through the middle and New England 

 States. 



Many of the small lakes and ponds 1 

 which are to be found in the basins at 

 the top of the mountains in Pennsylva- 

 nia have -r been stocked with small- , 

 mouthed black; bass, .and here they seem 

 to breed and multiply, although many 

 of these bodies of water are Jalso plenti- 

 fully populated with pickerel and other 

 fish. Big Turk pond, for instance, in 

 Pike county was stocked with bass al- 

 most twenty years ago and there is now 

 good sport there for the angler who 

 loves this gamy fish ; along with . the 

 bass in this pond are associated yel- 

 low perch, catfish, sunfish, cafft ahcj 

 shiners. 



