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The President: That is the natural ily that lights on the 

 water? 



Mr. Clark : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Gunckel : In looking ovei- my reeoi-ds 1 liiid I did not 

 wear my glasses when I made my first statement. The fish lliat 

 I aetnally canght at the mouth of tlie river Raisin was a common 

 carp. (Langhter). But Judge Potter, for many years a fish 

 commissioner of the state of Ohio, told me prol)al)lv twenty 

 times of the whitefish that he had caught oft' Xipegon — I have 

 forgotten the halt that he iised — and I know when I go to Crys- 

 tal I>ake in the northern part of Michigan, of some In- 

 dians who come from Frankfort to sell whitefish (and I believe 

 there are more whitefish to the square foot in that lake than in 

 any lake ]\Ir. Clark has in Michigan), and they catch tliem with 

 hook and line. They liring in fifteen or twenty wliitefish nearlv 

 every summer that I go up there to fish. They must bite with 

 hook and line. All the propagation that you talk about leans 

 toward tlie commercial interests. About three-quarters of the 

 gentlemen present represent the angling fraternity of which I 

 am a proud member. I believe I belong to some fourteen differ- 

 ent angling clul)s and societies in the United States — always 

 have and I am now growing old in the business and have the 

 reputation of being the biggest liar in the Ignited States, and so 

 am entitled to recognition. 



]\Ir. Titcomb : To substantiate Dr. Gunckel's remarks — 



Mr. Gunckel: Don't get that ''Doctor." 



Mr. Titcomb: I want to say that in Lake W'iiuicpiscogee 

 the wliitefish is commonly taken with hook and liiif; and in fur- 

 tluT snl)stantiation of Dr. Gunckel's remark about this particu- 

 lar wliitefish which weighed so mucli, lie took me aside here to- 

 day and told me aliout it, but explained that he not only had a 

 baited hook, but had a bated breath. (Daughter). 



Mr. W. A. Palmer, Buchanan, :\litli.: I would like to ask 

 :\rr. Clark to what he attril)utes absence of whitefish about Michi- 

 gan City, St. Joe and Grand Haven, where they used to be sft 

 plenty ? 



:Mr. Clark: Fishermen. I tliink there havt' been without 

 question millions upon millions of small fish caught in Lake 

 ]\Iichigan and other lakes — not so many in liuke Erie, because 



