permit the fish to breed under favorable conditions and raise the fry with as much freedom from their natural enemies, including their cannibalistic tendencies, as possible.
It is not unusual for a female bass to spawn two or more times in a season and as many as seven thousand eggs to the pound of parent fish have been counted.
If a stream has suitable spawning beds, and they can be constructed if they do not exist naturally, the fish will maintain themselves providing the fishing is confined to legitimate hook and line. It is netting, dynamiting, and other, illegal methods that have depopulated so many of our good bass streams of yesteryear.
