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A list of corrections made can be found at the end of the text.

FAVORITE FISH AND FISHING

Frontispiece. (See page 43.)]

FAVORITE FISH AND FISHING

BY JAMES A. HENSHALL, M.D.

Author of "Book of the Black Bass," "Camping and Cruising in Florida," "Ye Gods and Little Fishes," "Bass, Pike, Perch and Others."

"And yf the angler take fysshe: surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte."

--Dame Juliana Berners.

NEW YORK THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY MCMVIII

Copyright, 1908, by THE OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England All Rights Reserved

To THE MEMORY of JUDGE NICHOLAS LONGWORTH

My Friend and Companion On Many Outings by FLOOD AND FIELD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is based on articles originally published in The Outing Magazine, Country Life in America, Shooting and Fishing, London Fishing Gazette and The American Fishculturist. My thanks and acknowledgments are hereby tendered to the publishers of those journals for permission to embody the articles in book form. For this purpose they have been added to, amplified and extended. For the illustrations of fishes I am indebted to the United States Bureau of Fisheries, Mr. Sherman F. Denton and Dr. Frank M. Johnson.

JAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALL. BOZEMAN, Montana.

CONTENTS

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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

ILLUSTRATIONS

Grayling Fishing on West Fork of Madison River, Montana Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

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

Favorite Fish & Fishing

THE BLACK BASS: THE GAME FISH OF THE PEOPLE