348 Third Annual Report of the 



Angling for Tullibee 



Mr. Dan E. Miller writes as follows concerning the capture 

 of tullibees with hook and line in Oneida Lake: 



" I think it was earl}' in September, 1913, that Fred Houser, 

 of Cleveland, jST. Y., was fishing for perch one afternoon off Wick- 

 ham's Point. He had a great desire to know what it was that 

 was nibbling at his hooks, and having a small trout hook, he took 

 off the larger hook and put the small one on baited with a small 

 piece of worm. The hook had hardly sunk three feet under water 

 when he saw the tullibees darting around the bait. He caught 

 seven, and said if he had known what they were, he could have 

 caught 100. The fish taken were from six to nine inches long. 

 Mr. William Gallagher and Mr. O'Connor, of Cleveland, saw 

 the fish when Mr. Houser came ashore, and Mr. Gallagher told 

 Foreman Miller that they were the same fish we were stripping 

 here in Xovember, 1012. 



Chateaugay Lake Whitefish 



Mr. Milo F. Otis furnishes the following notes under date of 

 January 15, 1913: 



" These whitefish are found in great quantities; there are mil- 

 lions of them there, but we have never found any of them in any 

 other waters in which we have fished. The people who reside on 

 the shores of the lake say these fish have always been there; they 

 very seldom take the hook, but occasionally one is taken in this 

 manner. The female will produce on the average about one ounce 

 or 3,600 eggs. They spawn in about 20 feet of water, which is 

 much deeper than most any other fish spawn in. 



We have never noticed any little pearly tubercles on the scales, 

 but occasionally find a fish which has a small sore spot on its side 

 resembling the spots found on the whitefish in this locality. 



The eggs from these little fish do not do very well. I run them 

 in the glass jars and give them the same care as the regular 

 whitefish, but a large number are dying. Fp to the present time. 

 I have not 'been able to see any eyes or other signs of life in these 

 eggs. While taking the eggs last fall, we had some difficulty in 

 fertilizing them : although we had any number of males there was 

 a scarcity of milt, as each male yielded so small a quantity. I 



