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point; the pickerel depositing their eggs as they pass up the 
river, paying no attention to hatching or caring for their 
young. Sturgeon are caught while rolling around their 
spawning beds, or guarding their young. The bed of the 
river and following the channel far into the lakes is lit- 
erally alive with suckers of all sizes and kinds. ‘There is 
no spot on the chain of lakes equal to this clear, rapid 
river for small-mouthed black bass and other game fish > 
to spawn and thrive. The flavor of fish caught in this 
magnificent body of water isworld known. It is also an 
admitted fact, and well known by the writer, that the 
channel in Sandusky Bay, winding, as it does, through a 
broad expanse of shallow water, is the best protected 
body of water along the lake shore, and while other bays 
and tributary rivers formerly abounded with the beautiful 
white bass and are now almost extinct, this channel 
leading up the Sandusky River is alive with this clean- 
looking fish from June until late in the fall; and further 
inland, among the bends and narrow channels lined with 
blooming lilies, can be found in great numbers the finest 
large-mouthed black bass grounds in the world. Re- 
ferring to pickerel, bass and other food species, the ma- 
jority of fishermen agree that all channels leading to and 
from the lake through the bays and rivers proper should 
be kept clear of nets particularly in the spawning sea- 
sons, for eventually the net fishermen must be actually 
benefited by allowing a large number of fish to cast 
their spawn in waters above the roving egg-destroying 
marauders, for as the country with its drainage toward 
the lake is being tilled to an extent beyond belief the 
creeks and rivers rise so rapidly and so high that fish are 
found in great quantities in ditches miles inland from 
the lake. 
While the general public believe that unless some de- 
cided and effective measures are adopted to enable a 
large mumber of fish to safely reach their spawning 
grounds, there is great danger of extermination of our 
