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Catch: Yellow perch, about 150; straw bass, 95; bluegill, 

 about 200; small-mouth black bass, 36; grayback minnow, 113; 

 skipjack, 13; straw-colored minnow, 12; log perch, 9; blunt-nosed 

 minnow, 29 ; Notropis heterodon, 1 ; rock bass, 8 ; Johnny darter, 

 10 ; Iowa darter, 6 ; pumpkinseed, several ; long-nosed gar, 6 ; creek 

 chub, 2. 



July 8, 1 :40 to 3 :00 p. m. Stations 53 to 71, beginning at sta- 

 tion 11 and working north to Arlington station ; 15-foot seine. Air 

 about 73 ; water 76 to 78. Hauls all in shallow water, near 

 shore, and most productive where bottom was free from Scirpus. 



Catch: Yellow perch, 185; straw bass, 121; skipjack about 

 500 ; grayback minnow, 209 ; Johnny darter, 61 ; small-mouth black 

 bass, 36; Notropis heterodon, 21; log perch, 33; Iowa darter, 13; 

 rock bass, 2 ; bluegill, 24 ; straw-colored minnow, 1 ; in the last 

 five or six hauls the skipjack was quite abundant, most of the indi- 

 viduals being young-of-the year. 



July 10, 1 :05 to 4 :05 p. m. Stations 72 to 90, in southeast part 

 of lake at station 52 and proceeding east and north to Norris's 

 pier, omitting about 200 yards at mouth of Norris Inlet where the 

 softness of the bottom made seining impossible. The bottom at 

 the first stations was sandy with some slight growth of Potamog- 

 eton in places. Nearing the Inlet the bottom becomes more and 

 more composed of decaying vegetable matter and very soft, until 

 finally for a few rods adjacent to the Norris Inlet on either side 

 it is too soft for seining operations. Near the Norris Inlet the 

 bottom was full of deeper mud holes 3 to 10 feet in diameter. 

 Here also occur small patches of lily-pads mostly Nympha3a, but a 

 few Castalia. The 15-foot seine was at first used, then a 45-foot 

 seine was utilized. At station 82 near the little green boathouse 

 40 gar-pike (Lepisosteus osseus) were secured. Depth 6 feet or 

 less; air temperature 80 ; water temperature 78 to 82. 



Catch : Bluegill, about 400 ; yellow perch, 269 ; grayback min- 

 now, 101 ; straw bass, 102 ; long-nose gar, 41 ; blunt-nose minnow, 

 40 ; log perch, 14 ; skipjack, many young ; pumpkinseed, 14 ; small- 

 mouth black bass, 9; straw-colored minnow, 23; rock-bass, 5; yel- 

 low cat, 1 ; Johnny darter, 9; brook stickleback, 1 ; mad torn, 1. 



Young skipjacks were taken in great numbers at stations 76, 

 77 and 78, but only a few in any other hauls. Yellow perch were 

 usually abundant at every station, especially at No. 80. Bluegills 

 were common in nearly every haul, especially at No. 79. 



There were added to the list in this series of hauls three species 

 which had not been previously taken, namely, the yellow cat (sta- 

 tion 77) ; mad torn (station 81), and the stickleback (station 89). 



