
Speckled bass, white bass, perch, blue- 
gills and the big river chub (which 
is sometimes 15 inches long in the east- 
ern streams) all like the same flies. 
When the trout season is closed, if 
you feel you would like to cast a fly 
again before winter comes, some of 
these lesser fishes may give you a 
chance to take them home. On a warm 
day in mid-October the river chub rises 
greedily to a large dry fly and leaps 
much like a rainbow trout. A wet fly 
is just as good but if he is willing to 
be spectacular, give him a chance. 
Yes sir, you may go forth to fish with 
flies only and-catch a fish. 
Angling for Common Fishes 
(Continued from page 527) 
much the same as in sunfish fish- 
ing, with the feathered lures. Flies 
that prove tempting when fished with- 
out the spinner are the Palmers, the 
Black Gnat, Silver Doctor, Queen of 
the Waters and the Professor. One of 
my favorites for this sort of fishing is 
the Yellow Sally and the Coachman, 
though I like to use the spinners with 
these last two mentioned. The leader 
for this sort of fishing, as previously 
stated, must be fine in caliber. It is a 
pleasure to use a leader hardly greater 
in caliber than a horse hair. 
In the Telerana Nova leaders, I like 
the Number 6 the best of all for this 
work. They possess strength and are 
not stiff. They can be attached to the 
hook without the least trouble. The 
rod should of course be of bamboo, 
three or four ounces in weight, though 
of course a slightly heavier rod, up to 
five ounces, can be used without trouble. 
One always stands in liability of catch- 
ing a fine old bass while working a 
strip of water for rupestris and then 
one feels that a slightly heavier rod 
would work to advantage. 
Of course the same unusual exhilara- 
tion and delight companions one in fly- 
fishing for rock bass as it does in trout 
fishing, with the same kind of tackle. 
How the seemingly fragile rod will bend 
and how the fish does his broad-sided 
play—the leader stretching taut like a 
violin string at tension—and when 
turning a somersault out of the water 
in the vain endeavor to extricate the 
barb from the lip! No swallowing of 
the hook here as in bait fishing. If 
the fish is undersized it may be shaken 
off very easily and no harm is done. 
The rock bass makes for one of the 
best fishes that one can introduce into a 
pond of cold, pure water; and in answer 
to many questions that have been asked 
me in this respect I will say that it is 
the pond fish par excellence. In its 
spawning habits it is very much like the 
Page 567 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
sunfishes and the croppies, with this 
difference, that the rock bass will de- 
vour its young if it can get at them 
after being driven away from the nest. 
It is also true that the larger ones of 
rock bass young will kill and devour 
their weaker brothers and sisters. I 
believe this is one reason why the rock 
bass are not so common to our waters 
as the sunfishes, and as numerous. 
We have thus the sinister fact to 
contend with that the rock bass is 
really its own worst enemy. But al- 
though the rock bass is thus singled out 
as of a cannibal nature it is not so’ de- 
structive to the young of other fishes. 
Indeed I believe that it lives mostly on 
such minute water life as is found in 
the stream, although the larger rock 
bass are probably inveterate destroyers 
of younger fish life; and, of course, 
when they seize your spinner and fly, it 
is probably their belief that it is a 
minnow. I will say in regard to stock- 
ing ponds with the rock bass, that one 
can introduce another species of fish 
with it. I have known of several in- 
stances where croppies and rock bass, 
both introduced to a pond, have lived in 
harmony and with no notable sign of 
destructiveness or decrease in either 
species. I have also known of the rock 
bass and sunfishes living in like har- 
mony. 
The nest of the rock bass is not al- 
ways as large as that of the sunfishes 
and may often be mistaken for a nest 
of a black bass were it not for the 
presence of the male fish guarding it. 
While the rock bass takes care of the 
eggs and the resulting young with a 
patience that bears special mention, it 
will turn on its young, as I have said. 
after the season and kill them if it can 
get them. This is, of course, one of 
the oddities of nature that we cannot 
see through, why it should be so can- 
nibalistic in nature and yet not so de- 
structive to other fishes. To find a 
reason for this would demand a great 
deal of study and investigation. 
It is said that there is no fish so 
troubled with worms in the summer as 
the rock bass and I have to admit that 
this is true. Nor does cold water ap- 
parently have a bettering effect upon 
the fish, for I have taken them out of 
spring water equally as wormy as in 
warmer water. But it is true that the 
black basses also have these worms, as 
have other fishes, too, so it does not 
apply to the rock bass alone. Because 
of these worms (hardly ever over a 
fourth of an inch in length), encysted in 
the flesh, it is thought by some that 
they are useless as food. To this it 
will be answered that not only is the 
fish in a healthy condition, though it 
has them in its flesh, but they absolutely 
are not impaired as to food value, nor 
will people partaking of them “get 
worms” as is so often heard. 


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