354 Third Annual Report oe the 



Rescue of Game Fish 



The following report on the rescue work at the western wide 

 waters of the Erie Canal, in Rochester, was made by Foreman 

 Frank Redband, November 22, 1912: 



" I have been fishing at the western widewaters in Rochester, 

 and find it pretty hard work. It is all full of snags so that it is 

 impossible to haul seines. We tore the net all to pieces every 

 time we made a haul. We secured only 225 black bass. The men 

 who were hauling the seines were disgusted and said they would 

 not fish there any longer. Peter Knobloch, of Lyons, was with 

 me, and he thought it would not pay to stay any longer. We 

 fished during two clays. We had fishermen from Irondequoit 

 Bay to haul the seine, and they had a good one. If there- had 

 been any fish there, I think they would have taken them, for they 

 did their best to try to catch them." 



Foreman Wallace D. Rhines, of the Linlithgo Station, was sent 

 by the Conservation Commission to Nassau Lake, October 23, 

 1012, to rescue from a little cove connected at high water with the 

 lake, but cut off from it when the waters are low, the food and 

 game fish known to be imprisoned in the cove. If the fish had 

 not been removed they would all have been killed by freezing. 



Mr. Rhines has just reported the transfer of the following fish 

 to the live waters of the lake : 



Bullheads 50,000 



Pickerel 100 



Calico bass 500 



Sunfish 1,000 



Large mouthed bass 50 



Yellow perch 250 



The cove is very muddy and seining operations worked up the 

 mud so much that the work had to be suspended temporarily; 

 but, if possible, Mr. Rhines will go to the place again before ice 

 makes and take out the remaining fish which are chiefly bullheads. 



The fish filled ten thirty-quart cans almost solidly. 



The presence of these fish in Best's Cove was discovered by 

 Game Protector James A. Colloton who assisted in their rescue. 



