Documentary journal of Indiana 1898 . ^« ?«/??:/. 5S 47 EOCK Bx\SS. Tliis well-knoAvn fisli marks the transition from simfisli to bass,and for its angler-lovers, the transition from yontli to manhood. Itis a fish of ponds, lakes and shiggish Avaters. You can catch themin the canals or in any place where a fish of meditative habits canmaintain itself. It is abundant throughout the great lake region,and thence southwestward in every stream as far as Texas. East of the mountains, I have seen it onlj in the Eoanoke. It ismost plentiful in the j^orth, as it is not fond of wann Avater or ofmud. Besi
Documentary journal of Indiana 1898 . ^« ?«/??:/. 5S 47 EOCK Bx\SS. Tliis well-knoAvn fisli marks the transition from simfisli to bass,and for its angler-lovers, the transition from yontli to manhood. Itis a fish of ponds, lakes and shiggish Avaters. You can catch themin the canals or in any place where a fish of meditative habits canmaintain itself. It is abundant throughout the great lake region,and thence southwestward in every stream as far as Texas. East of the mountains, I have seen it onlj in the Eoanoke. It ismost plentiful in the j^orth, as it is not fond of wann Avater or ofmud. Besides its name Rock Bass, a good name of long stand-ing, and embalmed in the specific name nipestris, it has someother names equally good and appropriate, as Redeye and Gog-gle-eye, and by any of these names the angler vill know it any-where. It is a pity to waste three good names on one fish, whenso many other reputable fishes have no distinctive names at all, butare compelled to wear the cast-oft or made-over names of otherfishes.—I). S. Jorda
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