. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. CHAPTER XXIII. BLACK BASSE ANGLING IN MICHIGAN. Kindly furnished for this work by a friend at Detroit. Black Basse are found in all the great Western lakes, and in all the rivers connecting them or tributary to them. They abound also in the picturesque and beautiful lakelets with which the peninsula of Michigan is studded. There are several spe- cies of fbh which pass by the general name
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. CHAPTER XXIII. BLACK BASSE ANGLING IN MICHIGAN. Kindly furnished for this work by a friend at Detroit. Black Basse are found in all the great Western lakes, and in all the rivers connecting them or tributary to them. They abound also in the picturesque and beautiful lakelets with which the peninsula of Michigan is studded. There are several spe- cies of fbh which pass by the general name of Black Basse, but two or three of which appear to be described by naturalists— The Black Basse (Huro Nigricans) of Lake Huron, the Black Basse (Centrarchus Fasciatus) of Lake Erie and the Ohio River, and Labrax Nigricans, or Small Black Basse. They differ in different localities in form as well as in color. They all belong to the great Perch family, and are a game fish, afford- ing fine sport to the angler. They, with the White Basse, Pick- erel, Pike, Yellow Perch, and Catfish, comprise the list out of which the Detroit River angler is to find his sport; but the one which will most reward him for his toil, is the Black Basse. He is shy and capricious, yet when feeding bold and voracious. In size and shape he strongly resembles the Blackfish (Tautog) of salt water, and like him is found among rocks and reefs, and stones, and rapids, and eddies.* In weight they range from one to five pounds. On the eastern coast of Lake Michigan, and in Green Bay, * Another variety of this species does not appear to have been described by naturalists. It is never black. The b-ick of the fish is a dark color, shading gradually into green on the sides, and from that into a whitish cream Color on the belly. The characteristic mirk of this variety is two broad longitudinal parallel lines running the whole length of the body. They are commonly called the Green B;isse, a<id are found where the
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