Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries, Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, 1897 In from two to three years these fish will have increased sufficiently to enable the Commission to commence the work of stocking many of the ponds and rivers of the State. The large mouthed bass is native to the Great Lakes, the rivers of the Mississippi basin, and nearly all the waters of the Southern States. In New England it is comparatively unknown, the Small mouthed being perhaps better adapted to the clear cold waters of most of our lakes and ponds and has consequently received more atten tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.