Northern Writers
While these early bass fishers were plying their craft in Kentucky, bass fishing did not receive the attention it deserved in the North. Frank Forester (Henry W. Herbert), the popular sporting writer of his day, probably never caught a black bass. In an appendix to his "Field Sports" (1847) he says: " Other fish there are, the name of which is legion; the best, perhaps, of these, and the most sporting— after the Trout — is the Black Bass of the lakes,
which will rise freely to a large red and gray fly, made of Macaw, or parrot and Silver Pheasant or Guinea Fowl. . . . There is also a fish called " Trout " to the southward, which is certainly not a trout, though I do not know its correct appellation, which is eagerly pursued and considered a game fish." The " trout," of course, is none other than our friend the large-mouthed black bass.
