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Show Small-Mouth and Large-Mouth Bass of Different Type and Habits, Expert Says The general rule for telling the difference between a small-mouth and a large-mouth bass is that the mouth of the small-mouth does not extend beyond a point below the eye, while the mouth of the large mouth does extend back of the eye, according to a writer in the Indianapolis Indi-anapolis News. The small-mouth is found in most clear-running streams and clear cold lakes from the St. Lawrence river to Dakota, and southward to South Carolina. It varies in different localities, but at maturity is usually one to two feet long, with a weight of two to five pounds. The adult is generally olive-green, often darker on the head. It has the arrowy rush of the trout, the untiring Strength and bold leap of the salmon, while it has a system of fighting tactics peculiarly its own. It will rise to the artificial fly as readily as the salmon or the brook trout, under the same conditions; condi-tions; and will take the live minnow, or other live bait, under any and all circumstances favorable to the taking of any other fish. The large-mouth black bass is as abundant as the small-mouth species, spe-cies, but prefers lakes, bayous, and sluggish rather than running waters. It is found from Canada southward even into Mexico. It averages in length one to two and one-half feet, and in weight two to eight pounds. Its color is dark green above and silvery below, the young having a broad blackish band on the sides with dark spots above and below it. It is called in various places by many different names, as Oswego bass, straw bass, green bass, bayou boss, green trout and chub. It is almnst as game a fish as the small mouth. Its specific name "sal-moides" "sal-moides" (Latin salmo, salmon and Greek eidos, like) was given it from a fancied resemblance to a salmon. |
