- Where the Bass bite well[Frontispiece ]
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- [Oswego (Large-mouth) Bass]36
- [The Small-mouth Black-bass. The Large-mouth]
- 62
- [Black-bass. The Rock-bass]
- [Surf-fishing for Bass]96
- [Catching Sea-bass off Newport]100
- [The Sea-bass. The Mascalonge. The Pike]114
- [The Mascalonge of the Weeds. Trolling with Handline]120
- [The Eastern Pickerel. The Western Pickerel.]
- 140
- [The Pike-perch. The Yellow-perch]
- [The Arctic Grayling. The Michigan Grayling.]
- 174
- [The Montana Grayling]
- [The More Sportsmanly Way of catching Mascalonge]200
- [The Weakfish. The Kingfish. The German Carp]226
- [The Channel-catfish. The Sheepshead. The Cunner]244
- [Fishing for Cunners]250
- [The Flounder. The Smelt. The Spanish Mackerel]264
- [The Bonito. The Nigger-fish. The Pompano]280
- [Catching Spanish Mackerel on the Edge of the Gulf]
- [Stream]300
- [The Black Grunt.The Red Snapper]322
- [The Jolt-head Porgy. The Lady-fish. The Cobia]348
- [Taking Bonito by trolling off Block Island]350
- [The Angel-fish. The Turbot]384
BASS, PIKE, AND PERCH
CHAPTER I
THE SUNFISH FAMILY
(Centrarchidæ)
The sunfish family is composed entirely of fresh-water fishes. They are characterized by a symmetrically-shaped body, rather short and compressed; mouth terminal; teeth small, without canines; scales rather large; cheeks and gill-covers scaly; scales mostly smooth; border of preopercle smooth, or but slightly serrated; opercle ending in two flat points, or in a black flap; a single dorsal fin, composed of both spiny and soft rays; anal fin also having both spines and soft rays; the dorsal spines varying from 6 to 13 in the different species, with from 3 to 9 in the anal fin; sexes similar; coloration mostly greenish.