American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . V^^ ^J* ^. ^., STRIPED BASS OR ROCKFISH. Roccus lineatn% ,^.>y hk^.J^ m. \F:LLi)\V HASS. .A/iirtDif tntcrriipta White Perch White Perch Morone americana (Gmelin) Nor let the Muse, in her award of fame,Illustrious Perch, unnoticed pass thy of the prickly cohort, bred in lakes,To feast our boards, what sapid boneless flakesThy solid flesh supplies! though overfed,No daintier fish in oceans pastures
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . V^^ ^J* ^. ^., STRIPED BASS OR ROCKFISH. Roccus lineatn% ,^.>y hk^.J^ m. \F:LLi)\V HASS. .A/iirtDif tntcrriipta White Perch White Perch Morone americana (Gmelin) Nor let the Muse, in her award of fame,Illustrious Perch, unnoticed pass thy of the prickly cohort, bred in lakes,To feast our boards, what sapid boneless flakesThy solid flesh supplies! though overfed,No daintier fish in oceans pastures bredSwims thy compeer. —/tusouiiis. This well-known fish is common on the Atlantic coast of Americafrom the Carolinas to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It thrives in fresh,brackish, and salt water, but is somewhat anadromous, ascendingfreshwater streams. It is frequently landlocked in coastal ponds,where it becomes purely a freshwater fish. It is found in the lowerportions of nearly all the streams from Maine to the Carolinas, and isone of the most popular of game-fishes. It takes the fly readily,though it will not leave the water to do so, and angleworms, grass-hoppers, and small minnows are irresistible. As a game-fish it shouldhold, as it does in some
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