The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . FOOT HARRIERS ON SUSSEX MARSHES iss THE WAYS OF THE BLACK BASS. By TARLETON BEAN, Chief of the Fish and Game Department, Worlds Fair, St Louis, AMONG the most popular food and game fishesof North America are the large-mouthedand the small-mouthed black bass. Thesmall-mouthed species is slightly the smaller, andits distribution is more northerly. It seldom ex-ceeds 8 lbs., and averages about z\ lbs. in fish of 2-1 lbs. will measure 15 inches in length,while one of 8 be 2 feet long. This fish is indig
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . FOOT HARRIERS ON SUSSEX MARSHES iss THE WAYS OF THE BLACK BASS. By TARLETON BEAN, Chief of the Fish and Game Department, Worlds Fair, St Louis, AMONG the most popular food and game fishesof North America are the large-mouthedand the small-mouthed black bass. Thesmall-mouthed species is slightly the smaller, andits distribution is more northerly. It seldom ex-ceeds 8 lbs., and averages about z\ lbs. in fish of 2-1 lbs. will measure 15 inches in length,while one of 8 be 2 feet long. This fish is indigenousto the upper parts ofthe St. Lawrence basin,the Great Lakes region,and the basin of theMississippi. East of theAlleghanics it is a na-tive of the headwatersof the Ocmulgee andChattahoochee, butnorth of these streamsit has been widely dis-tributed artificially inwaters to which it isnot native. This bass differsmost markedlv fromthe large-mouthed formin the size of its jaws,the shallower notch inthe dorsal fin, and thesmaller scales. It hasabout eleven rows ofscales
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