Show blau ahter of small pass mr W L powell treasurer of the tha pennsylvania pe sylvania call commission sends av ao account of the depletion of maiden creeh by fishermen who catch bushels ol oi yearl vig black bass with small hooks books A veteran agler fished this stream recently with i fly rod and in the course coarse of a day took sixty bass ranging from 41 4 3 to G 6 inches in length all of them were lip hooked and were liberated alive the creele creek was fun fall of yearling bass during duio i ng juia and newspaper accounts mentioned their capture by the bushel by means of hooks so small as to be readily swallowed allowed zw by the fish fiaai 1 the absence of big bass even ir enod moderate ete e te n umbers numbers is i 8 n notorious 0 to rious but ia in the tha light of this information it is readily explained forest and stream |