Show BLACK BASS IS A SAVAGE A finny butcher that kills for the pleasure of slaughter the bass is like a roaring lion going about seeking whom ho he may devour I 1 have seen a good si sized ed specimen get into a school of minnows and eat and stuff until he could riot not get any more into his capacious insides then go oil off by himself throw up what lie he had eaten and begin over again after which he would keep on killing the poor innocent minnows apparently ly for the mere pleasure of killing very young bass will attack minute water life which flourishes on water plants and get away with aery one in sight adopting the same method as their elders to illustrate the extent of the cannibalism of the black bass here is the experience of a superintendent perin of one of 0 the fish hatcheries in pennsylvania tho the superintendent made an actual count of young bass about an inch long iong and placed them in a fry pond byi by themselves he gave them food six times a day and according to his statement each fish ate its own weight of the prepared food every 24 hours they were placed in a pond of the 1st ast of july and on october 1 when they were taken out there were only and the record showed that less than died from sickness it Is reasonable to suppose therefore that in addition to the food given them by the superintendent were about bass devoured by their stronger and more fortunate companions W E meehan in field and stream ra r u |