COMMON FISHES OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
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At Keokuk the yellow bass, the southern species, is infrequently taken, and 
fishermen do not distinguish it from the other. The white bass is common although 
not found in great numbers. It is highly esteemed as a game fish. One fisherman 
caught about 30 with hook and line on April 29, 1915. Kegarding the white bass in 
Lake Pepin, Wagner (1908) wrote: “A common form, almost daily seen in our seines, 
although always in very small numbers. Many young specimens were caught with 
the minnow seine. Of all the game fishes of Lake Pepin, this one most readilv takes 
the hook.” 
The white bass breeds in Michigan. (Michigan Fish Commission, 1893, p. 26) 
and Arkansas (U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, 1910, p. 9.) It was seen at Keokuk 
