206 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



welfare of the better fishes there by eating the eggs of some 

 of them and feeding upon midge lan^se and entomostracans. 



Shoals with much varied vegetation are favorite feeding 

 places for the young of black bass, perch, sunfish, and 

 catfish. 



Rusii patches form good breeding places for black bass, 

 common sunfish, long-eared sunfish, and blue-spotted sun- 

 fish. The roots of these plants are used to hold their eggs. 



The pondweed zone is the most important region in the 

 lake as a fish habitat. 



Shoals with stony bottoms are preferred by darters and 

 some minnows, including the most abundant species in the 

 lake, the blunt-nosed minnow. This .species breeds upon 

 .shoals of this character. 



