. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. is kept at the clubhouse of the daily catch, by whom caught, where taken, on what station,the number of fish, weight, and date. Some members of the CuttyhunkClub also belong to the West Island Club, which controls only five acresof land. The West Island Club is limited to thirty members, witli an ad-mission fee of $1,000. Professor Leith Adams has drawn a vivid pen-i)icture of Indian Bass-fish-ing in New Brunswick. The Indians (on the St. Johns River)
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. is kept at the clubhouse of the daily catch, by whom caught, where taken, on what station,the number of fish, weight, and date. Some members of the CuttyhunkClub also belong to the West Island Club, which controls only five acresof land. The West Island Club is limited to thirty members, witli an ad-mission fee of $1,000. Professor Leith Adams has drawn a vivid pen-i)icture of Indian Bass-fish-ing in New Brunswick. The Indians (on the St. Johns River) pursue them at spawningtime. The scene on a beautiful summer afternoon is extremely ex-citing. There a i^w canoes containing remnants of the Melicitatribe may be seen dropping quietly down the river, each with an Indianin the prow, spear in hand, and another at the stern paddling gently; thena sudden splash close by calls for his utmost exertions, and like an arrowthe birch-bark skiff is shot towards the spot, when the man in front, rest-ing on his knees, with much force and dexterity sends his three-prongedharpoon straight on the THE WHITE BASS. ROCCUS CHRTSOPS. THE WHITE BASS AND THE YELLOW BASS. Subtle. Has he bit? Has he bit? Face. And swallowed too, my Subtle. I have given him line, and now he pkys i faith. Subtle. And shall we twitch him ? Face. Through both the gills. Ben. Jonson, The Alche7nist, 1611, Act. ii, ?c. i. T^HE White Bass, or Striped Lake Bass, Roccus chrysops, is often con-founded with the Striped Bass, which it closely resembles. It mayeasily be distinguished by the presence of thirteen, instead of eleven, softrays in the anal fin, as well as by the greater size of its scales, of whichthere are about fifty-five rows, instead of sixty or more. It is most abundant in the Great Lake region, although it has a widedistribution in the Ohio and upper tributaries of the Mississippi, and isfound in many streams farther south. It frequents chiefly the lakes an
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