128 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



becoming very scarce in the Fulton Chain of lakes, and 

 Foreman Burke thinks the bass are destroying them because 

 the lakes which contain no bass yield as many frostfish 

 eggs as ever. 



We have, near Albany, a number of very nice little 

 fishing lakes, among them Nassau Lake, 16 miles distant, 

 which is a great resort for fishermen. I happened to be 

 there during the time when the lake was in bloom, and 

 pushing around in a boat hunting for the bass, I discovered 

 that it was useless to go into any portion of the lake in 

 which the bloom had accumulated. Wherever I could find 

 a lee shore from which the wind had swept off the bloom, I 

 could catch bass and nowhere else in the lake during that 

 period. 



