FISHES OF TSfcEri WISCONSIN LAKES 11 



150 feet in the center, which was 2 inch. On being questioned 

 the four seiners agreed that from June 15 to November 15 their 

 catch per day would average about as follows: 



Carp, Cyprinus carpio and Carpoides, two or three species .... 500 Ibs. 



Dogfish, Amia calva (1000 Ibs. on some days in autumn) ...... 400 4 



Sheepshead, Aplodinotus grunniens ......................... 350 



Suckers and red-horses, Moxostoma; Catostomus .............. 200 ' 



Wall-eyed pike, Stizostedion vitreum ........................ 200 " 



Mooheye > Hiodon tergisus .................................. 100 * 



Pickerel, Esox Indus (catch greater in autumn) ............. 50 ' 



Buffalo, Ictiobus, three or four species ...................... 25 



Spoonbill, Polyodon spathula ............................... 25 ' 



Catfishes and bullheads, Leptopus olivaris; Ictalutus punctalus; 



Ameiurus (catch greater in autumn) .................... 25 



White bass, Roccus chrysops ................. , ............ 10 4 



Black bass, Micropterus, 2 species ......................... 10 ' 



Bluegill, Lepomis incisor ................................... 1 Ib. 



Crappies, Pomoxis ........................................ 1 ' 



While the writer was at Lake Pepin, the crew never seined 

 where the water was more than seven or eight meters deep. 

 When the water is low in the autumn, however, the fishermen 

 haul from the deepest part of the lake (17m.). 



On two days fishing was carried on with hook and line, and 

 "once with a trot line, in two coulees about a mile above the out- 

 let of Lake Pepin on the Minnesota side. The coulees are 

 little drainage basins with ponds at their bottoms. The ponds 

 are connected with the lake under the C. M. & St. P. RR. 

 bridges. Their borders are grown up with willows and they are 

 filled with aquatic vegetation. 



On June 6, fishing from 2 :00 to 5 :00 P. M. with three hooks 

 baited with earthworms and grasshoppers, a largemouth black 

 bass, a smallmouth blackbass, two bluegills, and a pumpkinseed 

 were caught. On July 8 from 9:45 A. M. to 12:00 M. fishing with 

 three hooks baited with worms the following fishes were 

 caught: 6 pumpkinseeds, 1 yellow bullhead, 1 carp, 1 bluegill. 

 A trot-line bearing seventy 2/0 Kirby hooks baited with earth- 

 worms was also set from 9:30 A. M. to 11:00 A. M. It caught 

 3 carp and 1 pumpkinseed. 



Forty-six species of fishes were examined from Lake Pepin 

 and from the slews near its outlet. Wagner (1908) records 

 forty-three species from the lake. The following ten species 



