160 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
President Clark: While I hate to prolong the discussion, 
I want to say a word or two on the bass question, because there 
are some things that our old bass culturists like Mr. Stranahan 
and Mr. Lydell have not touched upon at all. We have only had 
this one year’s experience with bass, and small-mouth at that. I 
have some notes on the matter but nothing in the form of a 
paper, and I will just refer to them occasionally. 
We placed twenty-eight pairs of adult bass in our ponds, and 
from these we succeeded in finding eighteen nests, out of which 
thirteen produced fish. We did not find the eggs and the nest 
until after we went over to the station of the Michigan Fish 
Commission and examined the beds there, then we came back 
and found the eggs—we did not find them before—whether they 
spawned during those eight or ten hours while we were gone or 
not I could not say. Possibly we did not know what to look for 
exactly. However they hatched out and we screened the fish at 
the proper time when they came up from the bottom of the nest, 
and we took some of the young bass out of the nest and placed 
them in another pond. Previous to the spawning, however, we had 
sorted the bass, as Mr. Lydell says, and placed in one pond these 
twenty-eight pairs, as we supposed, and took a surplus of seven 
males, as we supposed, and placed them in another pond. In 
that pond we counted and placed 8,500 fry of a certain size and 
took 9,700 out—I do not think any of you can beat that. (Ap- 
plause.) The only way I can account for it is that the seven sup- 
posedly male bass were not all males. However, when we drew 
the pond down there was no indication whatever of any old nests. 
We took 9,700 ‘out and the fish culturist estimated there were 
still 2,000 to 4,000 left in the pond. After we reached that point 
I told him the experiment was ended. | 
Another thing that has not been touched upon by the bass 
culturists is the movement of the fry and baby fingerlings. We 
had an experience this year that I have never heard anybody 
touch upon. After the screens were lifted and we let the balance 
of the fry go, in perhaps twenty-four to thirty-six hours, the bulk 
of those little black fry were all around the edge of the pond. 
This pond is about 175 by 200 feet. They stayed there until 
about forty days old and grew very rapidly. 
We have a growth here in the specimens presented, of five- 
