[Illustration front cover] _THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN'S LIBRARY_ _EDITED BY CASPAR WHITNEY_ BASS, PIKE, PERCH AND OTHERS [Illustration illo 003] [Illustration illo 005] BASS, PIKE, PERCH AND OTHERS BY JAMES A. HENSHALL, M.D. AUTHOR OF "BOOK OF THE BLACK-BASS," "MORE ABOUT THE BLACK-BASS." "CAMPING AND CRUISING IN FLORIDA," "YE GODS AND LITTLE FISHES," ETC. [Illustration illo 006] New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903 _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT, 1903. BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped April, 1903. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. INTRODUCTION In this volume are included all of the game-fishes of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, except the salmons and trouts, and the tarpon, jewfish, and other fishes of large size, which are described in other volumes of this series. As a matter of convenience I have grouped the fishes in families, whenever possible, but in their sequence I have been guided chiefly by their importance as game-fishes, and not in accordance with their natural order. The latter feature, however, has been provided for in a systematic list on a subsequent page. In order not to burden the text with matter that might not be of general interest, the technical descriptions of the fishes of each group are given in small type at the head of each chapter; and that they may be readily understood by the lay reader the following explanations seem necessary.