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The lists in appendix cover the distribution of all varieties, no effort 

 having been made to keep an accurate count of each variety, but the 

 following: list embraces all the varieties planted. 



Black bass. 



Strawberry bass, or black crappie. 



('raiipif (light). 



Striped bass. 

 Wliitf buss. 



War-nioutli bass. 

 Wall-eyed pike. 

 Suntish. 

 Pickerel. 

 White perch. 



In our collection for distribution we endeavor to get tisli as early 

 in the season as i^racticable in order that as many as possible may 

 hv carried in each shipment, for as the season advances and the fish 

 increase in size, the numbers carried in shipments necessarily de- 

 crease correspondingly. 



FISHING CLUBS. 



AMiile it would be impracticable for us to attempt to give a list of 

 the clubs that have been formed throughout the State for the pro- 

 tection and propagation of the fish in our various lakes, or to give 

 the names of those who have built ponds for the cultivation of fish, 

 yet we cannot refrain from citing the work of that nature which has 

 been accomplished in one section, viz: that adjacent to Waterloo, 

 111 , as an instance of what is being done and what might be done 

 throughout the State. We quote from a letter of Dr. Sennott. writ- 

 ten in compliance with a request for a summary of the clubs and 

 their work in his neighborhood. The Waterloo people have always 

 been firm supporters of the Commission and its work. 



'"Your request for a brief synopsis of the names and locations of 

 the various lakes and ponds in this vicinity, with a history of the 

 organizations controlling them has been received. I will comply 

 with your request as far as I can. Gilmore"s lakes are situated three 

 miles from Columbia and ten miles from Belleville, and are leased 

 by the Belleville people under the name of the Gilmore Lake Fish- 

 ing Club. 



The membership is limited to twenty, and is always full. The 

 lakes are two in number, known as Long Lake and North Lake. 

 Each covers an area of about four and one-half acres. The water 

 varies in depth from one to twenty feet. They are natural lakes, 

 surrounded by forest trees and have been well stocked with black 

 bass, crappies and sunfish. A good club house has been built at the 

 lake. During the past ten years the club has received several con- 

 signments of fish from the Illinois State Fish Commission and the 

 best of results have followed. Island Lake, two miles north of 

 Waterloo, is a natural body of water, crystal in its clearness, and was 

 the first lake leased and protected as a resort by the Waterloo sports- 

 men. It contains a little over four acres of water, and the fish taken 

 from it are noted for their gameness, beautiful color and fine fiavor. 

 The Waterlo3 Hunting and Fishing C^lul) have had this lake untler 

 their care for the last twenty years. It is now owned by a private 

 club of Waterloo citizens. 



