. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 17,1900) fCfye Qveelnev mtfr gpavtsmaxu ll. ANGLING FOR BL&.CK BASS. The wires ^aVfirst,'"hare" had to give up trying to produce men eay that as a daily angling diet fly-fishing for black bass exhibition specimens with good coats, and the majority have never creates a surfeit nor leaveB a void to be filled. The given them up entirely in favor of the smooth. , , . ,-, and caBt the flies over a mountain trout stream, as the black A novel wager for £25 a side is on between two noted b ox across the foot of the lake. There is also quite a goo
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. November 17,1900) fCfye Qveelnev mtfr gpavtsmaxu ll. ANGLING FOR BL&.CK BASS. The wires ^aVfirst,'"hare" had to give up trying to produce men eay that as a daily angling diet fly-fishing for black bass exhibition specimens with good coats, and the majority have never creates a surfeit nor leaveB a void to be filled. The given them up entirely in favor of the smooth. , , . ,-, and caBt the flies over a mountain trout stream, as the black A novel wager for £25 a side is on between two noted b ox across the foot of the lake. There is also quite a good pool for three o the left and follows the shore about half a mile toward the end of the lake. A dozen or more of good bass, all small-mouthed, have been taken in this manner with artificial flies. At the junction of the east branch of the Delaware river and the Beaverkill (150 miles, from New York City), and along the first-named water to Hancock, a distance of abont twelve utiles, will be found the best black bass fly-fishing in the State of New York. Id this region there are scoreB of pools and long reaches where the black bass swarm and rise freely to the fly, particularly in the early days of the legal seaBor, which begins in this State on June 16th. The Oswego River, a few miles above the city of the same name, also furoit-hes fair fly-fishing, and the Schoykilland Delaware Rivers, about thirty miles above Philadelphia, were a few years ago excellent waters. The above-named regionB are vouched for by the writer, as they have been fished by him, others equally as good in the ot come under his experience. freely to the fly is the species known as the small-mouthed ; the large-mouthed do not take the Burface fly with equal avidity, and, when hooked, do not reason for this is apparent to any one who has waded along show the same vigor of fight as the small-mouthed, being more sluggish and surrendering more quicklv. The smaller The fancv has many staunch adherents in Santa C
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