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The Tippecanoe River at Fort Lowry—Looking 
exist and work to this end this season, 
and not heretofore? Had these fish 
remained uncaught, would these eggs 
have been retained until next spring, 
or would they have been expelled and 
another set grown for next spring’s 
spawning purposes? 
My friend and fishing companion, 
Mr. Lowry, who has lived on this 
stream for forty years, and who has 
fished its waters for twenty years, says 
there must be rain in September suffi- 
cient to raise the river from fifteen to 
twenty-four inches to insure good fish- 
ing. His theory is, that the high water 
carries out more or less of the grass, 
but more especially causes the bass, up’ 
in the head waters of the stream, to 
move down into this stretch of deep back 
Up Stream. 
water, where they remain until time 
to seek their spawning grounds the fol- 
lowing spring. He goes a step further 
and contends that Lake Maxinkuckee, 
with which the Tippecanoe river is con- 
nected by the lake’s outlet, some fifty 
miles northeast of our fishing grounds, 
is the main supply station for the 
river, and that the September rise 
brings the bass down from the lake 
as well. 
Fifteen and twenty years ago the 
waters of Maxinkuckee furnished fine 
bass, both small and big-mouth, walled- 
eyed pike, locally called salmon, and 
crappie fishing, the latter fish running 
as large as 2% fb., but for years the 
lake has been quite a summer resort, 
and the fishing is said to have become 
