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Mr. Leary: Yes, but the roller sinks readily. At Llic s;)nie 

 time it lifts the net least bit when it strikes anytliing. 



Mr. Lydell : We use an iron ring about eight to ten inches 

 in diameter, and attach one about every four feet to the load 

 line — it answers the same piirpose and acts as a sinker at the 

 same time, and our lines do not roll at all. 



Mr. Leary: I got a gentleman who owned a mudd; cattle 

 tank to allow me to put crappy in there with the privilege of 

 having part of the game fish. I sent out to seine the pond, and 

 they said the pond was so full of mud they could not get the fish. 

 I said I would go out the next day and I could catch the fish. 

 They did not think I could do it; I said "I will show you;" I 

 said "get me a few empty beer bottles" — ^not full bottles you 

 know — ^I dare not take a full bottle of beer. (Laughter). T 

 got these Ijottles. put corks in and tied them at intervals. 



Mr. Lydell : Would you not have caught more fish if there 

 had been something in the bottles? (Laughter). 



Mr. Leary : I expect I would — I just tied those beer bottles 

 at intervals along that bottom line and got plenty of fish. 



Mr. Clark : The last papers are certainly very interesting, 

 and this is a subject that has interested me very much, as I am 

 seeking information on the bass question. We have at N"orthville 

 a natural place for bass ponds, and we can make any number of 

 nice bass ponds in connection with our trout work. Mr Bower 

 and Mr. Lydell both say that nature has done for us what they 

 have hunted for nearly a year to find. Some few months ago, 

 or in the winter perhaps, I received instructions from my chief 

 in Washington to prepare for the culture of bass, and was asked 

 to suggest plans for the ponds. I made same sort of sketches 

 and they were forwarded to Washingtmi, and the architect and 

 engineer prepared plans which were forwarded to me to work 

 upon in the building the ponds. You have been talking about 

 the food and the size of your bass, and what you arc going to 

 distrilmte, etc., and I am not up to that, although I might say 

 in passing, I did hatch bass fifteen or twenty years ago. just 

 hatched a few, but not to make a business of it; so that I do not 

 claim to be a bass man at all, and I am an infant h^ tlie matter. 

 Now the question that 1 want to know is, are your bass ponds 

 Tight? Is the bass pond at ^lill Creek wliere Mr. Lydell and Mr. 



