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or speckled red-meated trout of the inland lakes, 
and is practiced to-day in many of our rarely 
visited trout waters in the interior. Just after 
the ice went .out these fish were on the surface 
fighting fiercely for every scrap of food that came 
in their way to appease their starved stomachs. 
Then scores of men with hand lines, poles and 
set-lines visited each lake, capturing the fish by 
the thousand before they retired into deep water 
where they found food until spring. 
Knowing well that a second appearance would 
take place, these greedy men waited until every 
trout in the lake came to the regular spawning 
grounds and began to dear off the beds for the 
annual egg-laying. If such times one could see 
perhaps 5,000 great trout at a time on a space ioo 
feet square and so packed together they would be 
at such times that, one peering down through 
three or four feet of clear water could not even 
see the lake bottom, and in still shallower places 
the dorsal fins of the larger ones could be seen 
all over the surface of the lake. Aided by torch, 
spear and shot gun, the slaughter would begin, 
and finally end with raking the pick of the entire 
fish colony, which were carried home in bags 
and baskets, and often “salted down” for future 
use, just as salmon are. 
The spawning grounds, thus invaded, made 
procreation impossible, with the result that in two 
of three years of this sort of vandalism, all fish 
would disappear from a lake. This scarcity 
caused the poachers much anxiety, and as trout 
could not then be found to replace those de¬ 
stroyed, they tried the transplanting of other sorts 
of inferior and foreign- fishes, in the hope that 
these would in some measure make up for the 
loss sustained. 
In the waters formerly swarming with th* 
nobler fishes there were then unceremoniously 
dumped from the great lakes and rivers, like 
Champlain, the St. Lawrence and the Mohawk, 
the lowland and pond fishes, like pike, pike perch, 
pickerel, yellow perch, sun fish, bull heads, eels 
and the common sucker, which, as all .anglers 
know, climbs out of its lake bed in early spring 
and ascends all the smaller brooks, where it is 
speared in great numbers, its weight often being 
three or four pounds, and its flesh at that time 
extremely sweet, albeit somewhat bony. 
With these common fish came the lowland 
aristocrat, the black bass who took to the clear 
waters of his new environment like the proverbial 
duck to water, greatly increasing in size, and im¬ 
proving in appearance and flesh quality, as the 
result of a better diet, that of crawfish, a purely 
trout food, being particularly acceptable to him, 
as well as the rest of the lowland horde of in¬ 
vaders- 
In these clear lakes the bass increased, until to¬ 
day he has nearly supplanted the trout in the 
angler’s favor, for he is a mighty cautious quarry 
and a great fighter, for his inches. Indeed, a 2 
pound bass will put up better tactics than any 
other fish I am acquainted with. 
You are out in a boat at anchor, we will say, 
when something quietly takes the minnow, and 
with great force moves off. You allow the line 
to run until it ceases. Then you feel the heft 
on the string and strike smartly. This alarms 
something, and before you can stop it, a great 
bass rushes under the boat from the left side and 
throws himself violently out of water on the 
right side, tearing out the hook, or breaking your 
tackle. Just now here at Eagle Lake he is fiercely 
taking the spinner or small fly-sppon, or even the 
Caledonia minnow. A Mr. Webber from New 
York City took fifteen down by the yellow house 
with a trolling spoon a day or two ago. All were 
of fine size, one weighing upward of 2 pounds. 
A strange thing happened last year when it was 
discovered that the smaller ibass in certain bays 
preferred a frog to any other kind of bait, even 
refusing the crawfish. After considerable inves¬ 
tigation, it was found that these young bass were 
the offspring of certain frog-eating bass, brought 
from the South through the National Depart¬ 
ment of Fisheries, and simply followed inherited 
instincts in the matter of a choice of food, dif¬ 
fering in this respect from the early plant in this 
lake, which it was thought had begun to “run 
out,” as the popular phrase goes. 
One small-mouth bass here, as elsewhere are 
well worth studying in other ways. After the 
male fish has prepared a home, he goes wooing 
somewhere and brings back his bride who he in¬ 
stalls in the best parlor of his white sanded 
abode in the shallows near some reef of rocks. 
There she lays her eggs and when that act is 
performed he is through with her services, for 
she is packed off instanter, much against her pro¬ 
tests, and the old man himself takes a hand in 
the family matters from that time. He fairly 
drives every living thing from the vicinity of that 
nest, and Mr. Pike would do well to keep away 
from the savage little warrior. Let the old water- 
wolf make a rush for the bass and he will find 
himself impaled upon the spear-like spines of 
the latter’s dorsal fin which will penetrate the 
soft belly of the larger fish, as the bass dives 
beneath its antagonist or meets the charge at 
an angle, with the result that he is thereafter let 
piously alone by the pike, who thereafter con¬ 
tents himself with soft-rayed shiners, minnows 
and such small fish. Nor is Mother Bass ever 
allowed to see the fry—her children. Her hus¬ 
band knows that she is greedy and would simply 
mistake them for shiners and eat them without 
compunction. So, he hotly engages her in battle 
although twice his size and drives her forth again, 
so determined is he to rear the family in a purely 
man’s manner. Like the modest bullhead mother, 
he carefully guides and protects the young bass, 
leading them into proper waters where they soon 
become adepts in fly fishing, while he points out 
other possibilities by occasionally pulling a frog 
or acquatic bird off the 'lily pads for his own 
supper. 
In winter, the bass and its young seek the 
deepest water where they refuse any bait until 
well into the spring when they throng the lake 
shores. Later on they will be in deep water off 
the reefs and sunken islands. 
(Continued from page 119.) 
NEW ROCHELLE ONE DESIGN—START, 2:40— 
COURSE, s’A MILES. 
Virginia, Boyd Decker .4 06 52 1 26 52 
GREENWICH COVE DORIES—START, 2:45— 
COURSE, $y 2 MILES. 
Squaw, J. H. Hoyt, Jr..’.4 12 u 1 27 11 
Lobster, E. J. & Earl King.4 18 10 1 33 10 
Init, H. M. Banks, Jr.4 27 50 1 42 50 
Barnacle, W. L. Marston . 5 34 43 ♦ 2 49 43 
SEAWANHAKA KNOCKABOUTS—START, 2:15— 
COURSE, 11 MILES. 
Dacoit, H. E. McCormick.4 42 29 2 27 29 
Dipper, H. H. Van Rensselaer..4 44 29 2 29 29 
SPECIAL MIXED CLASS—START, 2:15—COURSE, 11 
MILES. 
Opitsah II., T. S. Clark.4 28 28 2 13 28 
CATBOAT CLASS—START, 2U5-COURSE, n 
MILES. 
Marichien, R. O. Hill.5 53 17 3 38 17 
Merry Widow. C. W. Hall, Jr. 5 54 54 3 39 54 
GLEN COVE JEWELL CLASS—START, 2:20- 
OOURSE, n MILES. 
Cyric, W. Hunt Hall.4 43 40 2 23 40 
Amethyst, W. R. Truesdale .4 47 48 2 27 48 
Catseye, H. M. Adams.5 46 39 3 26 39 
Opal, J. P. Morgan.Did not finish. 
BIRD CLASS—START, 2:2o-COURSE, 11 MILES. 
Dodo, A. C. Andrews.5 04 16 2 44 16 
Heron, E. S. Cowl .5 06 33 2 46 33 
Curlew, S. L. Willard .5 09 48 2 49 48 
Loon, L. W. Knapp . 5 V 53 2 57 53 
Teaser, A. Nesbit .5 31 1 05 3 11 05 
Skylark, J. Dayton.Not timed. 
INDIAN HARBOR ONE DESIGN CLASS—START, 2:13 
—COURSE, n MILES. 
Yaqui, F. S. Page.5 03 28 2 48 28 
Minnehaha, C. M. Clements.Not timed. 
Huihehee, W. H. Childs.Not tinned. 
BUG CLASS—START, 2:40—COURSE, 554 MILES. 
Scarab, H. Christie.4 22 13 1 42 13 
Mayflye, W. M. Jennings.6 17 00 2 37 00 
AMERICAN DORIES—START, 2: 4 o-COURSE, s'/ 2 
MILES. 
Far Away, S. B. Fry.5 50 39 3 10 39 
Tautog, G. G. Fry.6 08 54 3 28 54 
Broncho, H. Fougner.Not timed. 
Alice, A. K. Griffin.Not timed. 
Rockey, J. Haggerty.Not timed. 
