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THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME-FISH OF THE PEOPLE 3 THE GRAYLING: THE FLOWER OF FISHES 43 THE TROUT: THE ANGLER'S PRIDE 65 HIS MAJESTY: THE SILVER KING 121 FLORIDA FISH AND FISHING 141
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Black Bass Returning to Water After Leaping 4 Large Mouth Black Bass 8 Small Mouth Black Bass 12 Black Bass Returning to Water After Leap 32 Michigan Grayling 46 Arctic Grayling 50 Montana Grayling 54 English Grayling 60 Brook Trout 66 Red Throat, or Cut-Throat Trout 72 Steelhead Trout 80 Rainbow Trout 88 Dolly Varden Trout 94 Brown Trout 100 Golden Trout of Volcano Creek 106 Sunapee Trout 114 Tarpon 128 Sheepshead 142 Cavalla 144 Sea Trout 146 Spanish Mackerel 148 Kingfish 150 Cero 150 Redfish; Channel Bass 154 Red Grouper 156 Mangrove Snapper 158 Ten Pounder 160 Ladyfish 160 Snook; Rovallia 164 Jewfish 166 Shark Sucker 168 Enlarged View of Sucking Disk 168 Florida Barracuda 172 Northern Barracuda 172 Manatee 176 Devil Fish 178
THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME FISH OF THE PEOPLE
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THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME FISH OF THE PEOPLE
These be parlous times in angling. When William King, in the seventeenth century, with as much prophecy as humor, wrote:
"His hook he baited with a dragon's tail And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale,"
he builded better than he knew. And if Job had lived in the twentieth century, the query: "Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?" would be answered in the affirmative; also, it would be demonstrated that "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot," at Fort Myers and Catalina.
The shades of Walton and Cotton, of Sir Humphrey Davy and "Christopher North," and of our own Dr. Bethune and Thaddeus Norris, could they "revisit the glimpses of the moon," would view with wonder and silent sorrow the tendency of many anglers of the present day toward strenuosity, abandoning the verdure-clad stream, with its warbling birds and fragrant blossoms, for the hissing steam launch and vile-smelling motor boat in pursuit of leaping tuna and silver king. It goes without saying, however, that considered as a sport, fishing for these jumbos is highly exciting and capable of infusing unbounded enthusiasm, but it can hardly be called angling.
In the ethics of sport it may be questioned if there is not more real pleasure, and at the same time a manifestation of a higher plane of sportsmanship, in the pursuit of woodcock, snipe, quail or grouse with well-trained bird-dogs, than in still-hunting moose, elk or deer. In the former case the bird is flushed and given a chance for life, while in the latter case the quarry is killed "as an ox goeth to the slaughter."
So in fishing a like comparison is possible--fly-fishing for salmon, black bass, trout, or grayling as against fishing for tarpon and tuna, which are worthless when killed except as food for sharks. In the first case the angler's skill, and his knowledge of its habits, are pitted against the wiles of the fish, with but a weak and slender snell of silkworm fiber between its capture or escape, while in the case of the leviathans mentioned, they are handicapped by being hooked in the gullet, and by towing a boat in their struggle for freedom. But comparisons are always odious. While the choice between the "gentle" art and strenuous fishing is certainly a question of taste, it may depend somewhat on the length of one's purse.
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