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into this subject. Let us now consider the third and 
last fundamental concern of these wild creatures— 
REPRODUCTION 
Provide a suitable living quarters with plenty of 
food, and they alone will take care of the repro- 
duction. 
Game fish do select a mate each year, some make 
a bed and lay their spawn. Let’s consider the Large 
Mouth Black Bass, a hardy and game fellow. After 
mating, the female will fan the bottom, either to firm 
clean soil or a net-work of aquatic roots. Here she 
deposits her eggs and in the meantime, the male 
guards and protects her. Now the male takes charge 
of the bed and fertilizes the eggs and guards them 
until the small fry are hatched. Each bed may con- 
tain from 2,000 to 200,000 eggs. When the fry are 
hatched, the male protects them and takes them into 
a weed bed where food is plentiful, hiding places 
abundant, and oxygen sufficient. After caring for 
them a few days, he again is overcome with that 
cannibalistic instinct and may turn on the very fish 
he has been protecting. The fear of fish then causes 
him to leave the shallow water weed bed and move 
to the outer edges near open water where he can 
more readily observe the approach of his enemy. 
Here he lives on through the summer and fall await- 
ing for the smaller fish that venture into the open 
that he may feed upon them, but still near cover 
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where he may hide as well as find the shade protect- 
ing him from the sun. 
That’s the place to drop your lure for the big fel- 
lows at the edge of the weed bed. Lay that plug on 
a lily pad and with a little flip of the rod, make it 
jump into the water and keep it moving with a life- 
like action, You will get him and he will give you a 
thrill. Each big one you take gives more smaller 
fish a chance to grow to maturity. 
Plants Important to Game Fish 
In the pages of this booklet as indicated here will 
be found description of the following species of 
plants that are important to game fish. What, when, 
where and how to plant them, also prices are given 
after the description of each plant. Here are those 
plants important to game fish. 
Page Page 
Wild (Gelery vitcacivisis lets crecig 8 American Lotus .) soaeamess 20 
Sago Pondweed ............ 10 White Waterlily ...2i25.e08 20 
Water Smartweed ......... 15 Frogbit: acc «o0/ss eee eee 22 
Hard Stem Bulrush ........ 17 Redhead Grass... js saetenine 23 
Ducksmeat Plants ..5..%.... 16 Water Shield +. 5co....eeeee 23 
Coontaill Plantsiec- ee eee 18 Naias Bushy Pondweed ....24 
Hlodeas Plantaa sic ascmerstec 18 Pickerel Plant’ .)... sees 25 
Deep Water Duck Potato ...19 Muskgrass |... osenteeienene 27 
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