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line. 
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904 West Street 

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in and slows up her activities. At 
this time (December) her restrained 
activity permits the energy previously 
stored away to turn itself to the de- 
velopment of the roe for the next year’s 
deposit. 
Slowly her weight diminishes until 
the function takes place. As the fats 
and essences concentrate into the ripen- 
ing roe she may lose five per cent. of 
her early December weight (we had 
boosted her from 9 pounds to 20, you’ll 
recall) and she’s down to 19 pounds. 
Then in late April or early May she © 
drops the roe and with it goes perhaps 
3 pounds more weight in a few sec- 
onds, and she’s a sick fish. In such a 
state of exhaustion perhaps another 
pound will go before delicate feeding 
permits her to turn the corner and 
strike the up-grade once more. At this 
period she’s down to 15 pounds or less, 
but she ought to be good for 28 or 30 
by the end of the feeding season which 
she is entering. 
In the males the losses and gains in 
weight are not so excessive, but the 
rises and falls are to be found with the 
same regularity. 
An undeveloped point is whether the 
annual gain in growth continues after 
sterility comes. It may be that the few 
extremely large bass on record, the 107- 
pound fish on the B. of F. records, for 
example, are sterile fish which have 
continued feeding ravenously and, with 
no ova to develop, have put on thirty 
or forty pounds in a single season and 
held most of it over the following 
winter. 
There were no fish on the record un- 
der 3 pounds in the early season and 
none under 4% during the late sea- 
on. The largest fish on the late 
season record was a 27-pounder which 
probably would have been a 16 or 17- 
pound fish if taken in June. 
n 
The 30-pound June specimen was 
| probably spawned in 1910, while the 27- 

pound October fish was of the brood of 
1912. There seems to have been no 
representative of the 1911 brood on the 
list, nor of any brook subsequent to 
1918. The largest number of individ- 
uals came from the 1917 hatching and 
to run from 4 pounds early in the sea- 
son to 9 pounds toward the finish. 
It appears that fish below the spawn- 
ing age do not feed in the surf, at least 
none got on the Asbury Park record. 
There is a well-substantiated report, 
however, that a small school of 9 or 10- 
inch bass spent some time around the 
end of the 900-foot stone jetty just built 
out from “The Flume,” and that one 
or two of them were dashed against 
| the rocks and killed. These were picked 
|up on the beach later by members of 
It will iventify you, 
the club. 
SWITCH REEL. 
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