Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1952 — Page 15

, 1952 SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1952 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

=. | Here Is Why Hoosier Anglers Have Good Luck

got anm the 2- By TED KNAP | ) {don't know fish also have per- * A p TENN OY $9 ard ape. SIX HUNDRED THOU. sonalities. 9 h - No: dvi by Oe from SAND youngster _| A largemouth bass is friendly. a hg ve Kot- in te gsters began leav-|,¢ Mr. Hay feeds them through pl ng their sheltered nursery the summer, they get’ to know ity. life here last week to embark him and follow him around the mr into the cold, fast world. pond. Some even swim up and SPECIALLY The youngste |eat out of his hand. gsiers are fingerlings, Not a smallmouth. Mr. Hay | is born last spring in the Riverside could provide crawfish pi ge) . pie three Park nursery and protected since|times a day, but they still will by the State Conservation D | DI'® «0 0 n Depart- keep their distance. ment. A largemouth bass, although In schools of several thousand;|You could match him with Rocky NEW the fish now are being taken from Graziano, is not as much a fighter

their sheltered ponds and plunged a8 his smallmouth cousin. LeapInto Hoosier streams and lakes/ing churning and biting, the NG Where they'll take their knocks Smallmouth is pound-for-pound Just like any other finny fellow. the fightingest critter in water, Fish have personalities and are Mr. Ray said. ‘ NOMY nearly as much fun as people, ac-| $a = cording to John Hay, veteran SMALLMOUTH BASS are fin- “ superintendent of the Riverside icky about food. Unlike the NACE Site Fish Hatchery on Cold largemouth, who will eat fresh ig Ra He's been chummy filets of dead fish, the smallmouth em 30 yeats, | won't eat anything without the — 8 2 8 ‘kick of life in it. CITRIC SOME FISH are nice people, | Channel catfish will chomp on others are cads. Some are friendly almost anything. That's why

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ee enough to cuddle, while others are they're good eating only while RMS! told-shouldered as well as cold-|small. : blooded. Some are vulturous and| The Spoonbill catfish, big ugly L 8167 cannibalistic, others fastidious! guy whose bill matches an ele- Your Own Bedroom sew enough to please Emily Post. phant’s trunk, is not a game fish : : Mr. Hay learned all this by liv-| and lives in dirty old bayous. But 3-Pe. Suite ETAL Ing with the millions of fish he youll never catch him swilling o Bed - 50 faised—his home is on the hatch- like a sow. He eats only live iR-1930 " Sroune. insects (daphnia) - which he * Chest *- lake those We and his helpers catches by swimming around with ? a———y raised this year — 400,000 Pe his big mouth oe * Dresser 18 Mo. to Pay . bluegills and sunfish. Most were] The Riverside hatchery keeps day born in May and now have grown several spoonbills. for showing at SOLD MAPLE Batre Sone re sion to an average of four inches. {the State Fair and sports shows. oun AN Sule foe 1s Ever 2a | ? top quality. Bere is @ with y day, Mr. Hay and his Their nine display ponds also rim gh Bou Saciate recuse and men seine one or more of the 33( house trout, garfish, dogfish, buf- - Hy

spawning and rearing ponds. Sev-|falo, silver bass, shad, northern eral days a week, fish are trans- and walleye pike, eels and several ferred to tanks in a Conservation other species.

Department truck and taken to Granddaddy of all fish at River-

almost an aiid : ww vi hoo : $ : ws HN FURNITURE y Sovnty " the state. |gide is a channel cat, 4% feet long : La ® a ak Wabi, ' {and 50 pounds. Its pond is kept } : IANCES “THE SCHOOL of hard knocks! secret because Mr. Hay doesn’t A : 4 ? , Times photos by John R. Spicklemire : ! & PPL doesn’t hurt our _ graduates| want ‘any ambitious poacher try- PARADISE LOST—Several hundred baby bass lose their happy home as conservation crew seines willow-lined pond in Riverside hatchery. uch, Mr. Hay said. “Some may |ing to hook it. [the young man’s fancy, turn to/larity is concerned. In fish life (get a craving for’ “horseburgers,” be legal size when bass season 80 hungry awhile and I figure a| About 150 adult fish are kept [thoughts of love. It’s the warm |it's the male who guards the nest|a commercial feed made of ground opens next year,

few get lost, but it doesn’t take at the hatchery through winter water that does it, Mr, Hay said.|and watches over the fry. He's horsemeat. | So when you cast out next 3302 E. 10th St.—IM. 4427 them long. Fish are not so dumb.” | for breeding. Warm water is to a fish like like a lioness for about 10 days| Some bass born in May have spring, chances are you'll hook id Ssermaan who. Das re- s = a moonlight to a coed. {until the fry grow to Balt ine Sop ou to 8-inch size, while one of Mr. Hay's friends. Till 9 p M. an empty string willl THE LIFE CYCLE at Riverside Male fish usually take the lead length and swim off. 10 ers, just as healthy, are only; Maybe that’s why Mr. Hay testify fish are smart. But most begins in spring, when fish, like in underwater Soni But| Fish are prolific procreators. two inches. The bigger ones willldoesn’t go tishing any more. Open Monday Thru Friday ede

{just like among people, when fe- The female largemouth lays 250,-| {males outnumber males, the she-/000 eggs, and the male fertilizes| fish will go out courting. (about 98 per cent of them. That's {the hatchery average, much high-| Seldom are male fish bigamists.| than in a lake or stream. i

But when there are more she's|™ n.. ciate's nine hatcheries willl than he's, the male will succumb|,, i "out 18 million fish in the

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Hay said. “If you put 10 males] WHILE they're fry, hatchery and three females together, you'd fish feed on insects produced in find a few dead males after athe ponds by loading the water couple days of fighting.” lwith fertilizer. Then they proAfter the courtship, people and gress to crawfish, frogs and minNearing adulthood, they

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