Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1916 — Cedar Lake Fishing Ground to Be Restored. [ARTICLE]

Cedar Lake Fishing Ground to Be Restored.

Crown Point, Ind., April 26. — Cedar Lake, once famous for its fine fishing, is to be restored to its original estate. The preliminaries—the weeding out of undesirable fish such as carp, buffalo, dog fish and gar was begun yesterday by a gang of seiners under the direction of George Horst of Crown Point, who has been commissioned by State Game Warden Eugene Shireman to do the work. When this work of seining is completed after several weeks, the lake is to be restocked with game fish, and in two or three years it is hoped Cedar lake will again teem with the life of game fish.

The movement to clean out the lake had its origin among Crown Point and Cedar Lake fishermen who want to see the lake restored to its original fame for fine fishing and with the work in the hands of Mr. Horst, fishermen feel confident that the work will be conscientously done. To meet the requirements of the law Mr. horst gave a $5,000 bond, entered into an agreement with the state fish and game commission to turn over one-third of the seining profits to the commission. Mr. Horst is to sein only such fish out of the lake as are detrimental to the multiplying and development of the game fish. While there is a market for the undesirables they bring a very low price, but -with thousands of pounds to be seined it is believed Mr. Horst can do the work with some profit.

At any rate he has the thanks of sportsmen in the county and it is hoped that the good work of eliminating the undesirable fish will be continued from spring to spring until all trace of them vanishes. Work of cleaning out small lakes in other states is also reported.