T a X11f/ I I JJ eJ f r. r c r r r. yt C Sr 5 1 Y \ W t v r wIwra: au 1 tin '- ' " ' yy yLi in u d 5,.. ' s 1;e 5 S, a +Kr i ®rl c r.r ,rYF - a a e y - a { r x , ,_xwh . 1 .u+ x .c.. y 61 Y {+y s x a x "°nk;. cs r 9t ^r r"'$: .7v ' "r,' T .. '¢ i., "' .. 'M 4 ?nt'Sf x R 9F' c } t 1, '3 _ C x ; k '} r q s ,~ a x l. ;; ' , . fir. - x ? rf . "' as ty x z- _ MAY 1959 20 CENTS OUTDOOR INDIANA HAROLD W. HANDLE Governor CRAWFORD F. PARKER Lieutenant-Governor and Commissioner of Agriculture INDIANA CONSERVATION COMMISSION James M. Tucker, Paol Chairman Dr. Harry J. Reed, Lafayette Kenneth M. Kunkel, Ildianapols ;, . William Shaw, Knox Kenneth Marln, Director Division-Directori Division-Director State Parks - Kenneth R. CouII Geoiogtal Survey - Dr. Charles F. Deiss Fish and Game - Hugh Gra Entomogg- John J. Favinger State Forest - Ralph F. W'i co Engineer - Henry C. Prange Water Resources - Charles -i.. >..H.. i asin.Wm C. Burnsge Public Relations - John V. Seller rs m. Enforcement - John D. Rawlins Ac caubtin- Iarold B. Smith Oil and Gas - Homer R. Brown State Park ,Ins - lone F. Harrington CONTENTS GOOD FISHING LOCATIONS ......-.-.. ........-. 1 ADVICE TO ANGLERS ON KEEPING BAIT WORMS .......4 INDIANA DUNES STATE PARK- DUNELAND_ .-........ 6 MAPLE SUGAR CAMP. ..........................-............... 10 MUSKRAT DAMAGE -PREVENTION AND CONTROL-.- 11 BOATING SAFETY ..............---------------------------------- 16 NEWSOGRAM --------------..................----------------------- 18 ELMER --------............--------...........----------------------------- 20 FLATBOATING: CIRCA 1830.............------------------------ 21 "A NEW LEASE ON LIFE" - BROWNSBURG CONSERVATION CLUB ------------ 24 CONSERVATION IN THE NEWS ......----------------------. 27 EDUCATION: CONTEST WINNING ESSAY.... .....-------------- 28 FIELD TRIALS AT VERSAILLES STATE PARK ............------------30 FILE 13 ----------------.......--------------...---- ---------- 32 W. L. THOMPSON, Editor MARJORIE J. GROVER, Associate Editor MAC HEATON, Art Editor RIA ZOOK, Circulation Manager HERMAN MACKEY, Photo Editor OUTDOOR INDIANA COVER Branta canadensis, the Canada Goose, na- Vol. II, No. 11 May, 1959 tive to North America from the Arctic to Published monthly by the Indiana Department of Mexico. A migratory game bird known for Conservation, 311 W. Washington St., Indianapolis its judgment, strategy and fidelity. Mates 9, Indiana. Subscription price $1.50 a year. for life and will protect mate and brood Second-class mail privileges authorized at Indian- apolis, Indiana. with its own life. Preparing for a swim, the Permission for reprinting material from this issue is wary gander will lead the month-old gos- hereby given with a request that proper credit be lings and the watchful goose will guard the given. flock from the rear. Color photo by Frank Wallace, State Entomologist Emeritus. FISHIINIl LOCATIO NS fever that has been HAS COME to do something about that fishin' T buildingHE TIME up during the long, cold winter months. Poles ready? Gear in A-1 order? Got your favorite fishin' hole picked out? If the answer is "No," to the last question, here's a list of spots you might try. They were good last season and there is no reason to believe they won't be again this year. If it is impossible to get to some of these good spots, don't be discouraged. Have you tried the deep holes in the creek that runs through your back forty? Above all, don't neglect the 42,000 farm ponds that dot the Hoosier landscape. To further your fishing success, the Indiana Department of Conservation, through its state fish hatcheries, has released more than one and a quarter million warm water fish, including about 50,000 trout and 460,000 wall eyed pike. The pleasure's all yours! NORTHEAST silver bass, channel cats, perch, cisco net- ting. Wawasee Lake: largemouth, small- ELKHART (COUNTY)* mouth, rock bass, bluegills, red-ears, perch, northern pike, crappies. Webster Lake: Hunter Lake: bluegills, red-ears in spring. largemouth, bluegills, red-ears. Winona St. Joseph River: rock bass, smallmouth, Lake: largemouth, bluegills, silver bass. northern pike, channel cat, walleye pike. Tippecanoe River: Elkhart River: largemouth, smallmouth, rock bass, small mouth, rock bass, channel cats, northern largemouth, northern pike, bluegills from pike. millpond south of Goshen to intersection of LAGRANGE* St. Joseph River at Elkhart. Atwood Lake: largemouth, bluegills. Cedar Lake: largemouth. Dallas Lake: large- KOSCIUSKO* mouth, smallmouth, northern pike, cisco Caldwell and Spear Lakes: bluegills in sum- netting. Fish Lake: cisco netting. Big mer. Chapman Lakes: largemouth, blue- Long Lake: bluegills, largemouth, perch. gills, perch. Dewart, Hoffman, Palestine Royer Lake: largemouth, bluegills, crap- and Wabee Lakes: for largemouth and blue- pies, red-ears. Little Turkey Lake: large- gills. Pike and Ridinger Lakes: northern mouth, bluegills, northern pike. North Twin pike, largemouth, bluegills. Syracuse Lake : Lake: largemouth, smallmouth, bluegills. largemouth, bluegills, red-ears, perch. Tip- South Twin Lake: largemouth, northern pecanoe Lake: spring and fall for large- pike. Wall Lake: largemouth. Westler mouth and smallmouth, bluegills, red-ears, Lake: crappies. May, 1959 OUTDOOR INDIANA * Pagel NOBLE* NORTHWEST Baugher Lake: bluegills. Bixler Lake: crappies-spring and fall, largemouth- LAKE* AND PORTER* spring and summer. Bushong Lake: blue- gills year 'round. Gordy Lake: bluegills Lake Michigan: smelt with nets and seines. and largemouth-summer. High Lake: LA PORTE* largemouth. Jones Lake: crappies. Knapp Lake Michigan (off Michigan City): jumbo Lake: cisco netting. Lower and Upper Long perch with minnows. Pine Lake: large- Lakes: largemouth, bluegills. Port Mitchell mouth bass-spinning and casting; bluegills Lake: northern pike, largemouth, bluegills, with live bait. crappies. Smalley Lake: largemouth, blue- gills. Sylvan Lake: largemouth, bluegills, MARSHALL* AND FULTON crappies. Tippecanoe River: northern pike, small- STEUBEN* mouth bass and rock bass. Lake Mixin- kuckee: bluegills and bass. Brown and Jimerson Lakes: largemouth, blue-gills, red-ears. Clear Lake: largemouth, NEWTON smallmouth, bluegills, red-ears, perch, cisco Willow Slough: bluegills and crappies with netting. Crooked, Fox and Pleasant Lakes: worms, minnows and flies. largemouth, bluegills, perch. Eaton Lake: buegills in summer. Golden, Otter and Sil- STARKE ver Lakes: largemouth and bluegills. Ham- Bass Lake: silver bass with minnows and ilton Lake: largemouth, bluegills, northern casting baits. pike, crappies. Hogback Lake: northern ST. JOSEPH* pike, largemouth, bluegills. Gage Lake: northern pike, walleye pike, largemouth and St. Joseph River: smallmouth bass by fly smallmouth bass, eisco netting. Lake and bait casting. George: northern pike, largemouth, blue- gills, perch. Lake James: northern pike, EAST smallmouth, largemouth, bluegills, perch, UNION crappies, cisco netting. McLish Lake: cisco Whitewater Park Lake: bluegills, crappies, netting. Big Otter Lake: largemouth, blue- largemouth. Blue, East Fork, White, Mus- gills, cisco netting. Pleasant Lake: large- catatuck, Driftwood and Whitewater Rivers mouth, bluegills. Snow Lake: northern pike, and Big Indian Creek: all good for small- largemouth, bluegills, cisco netting. Big mouth and largemouth bass and early Turkey Lake: largemouth, northern pike, spring sucker fishing. bluegills, crappies. WHITLEY* CENTRAL Blue, Goose, Loon and Shriner Lakes: all HAMILTON good for largemouth bass and bluegills. Morse Reservoir: smallmouth and pan fish. Cedar, Crooked, Round, Troy Cedar and Wilson Lakes: for largemouth, bluegills and MARION red-ears. Geist Reservoir: bluegills, crappies, channel catfish. NORTH CENTRAL JOHNSON AND SHELBY HUNTINGTON* Flatrock and Blue Rivers: catfish, crappies Wabash River: channel cat. Salamonie and smallmouth. River: channel cat, largemouth and small- mouth. WEST CLAY MIAMI* Strip mine pits: very good for largemouth Wabash and Mississinewa Rivers: channel and bluegills. Eel River: channel cat and cat. Eel River: rock bass, smallmouth, large- most native species. mouth. PARKE WABASH* Wabash River: trotline for channel cats, Long and Round Lakes: bluegills, large- also largemouth and smallmouth bass. Big mouth. Luken's Lake: northern pike, large- Raccoon, Little Raccoon and Sugar Creeks: mouth, bluegills. Salamonie River: channel fine smallmouth, rock bass, channel cats, cat. suckers, crappies and sunfish. WHITE* AND CARROLL PUTNAM Lakes Shafer and Freeman: channel catfish, Big Walnut, Little Walnut, Deer Creek and and silver bass with worms, minnows and Mill Creek (below Cagle Mill Dam): early soft crawfish. Tippecanoe River (from Lake stream fishing for smallmouth, rock bass, Freeman to Wabash River): channel catfish channel cats, crappies, flathead, carp, suck- with live and prepared baits, and small- ers. Albion Lake and Quarry Pit: red-ears, mouth bass. largemouth, bluegills and crappies. Page2 * OUTDOOR INDIANA May, 1959 VERMILLION SPENCER Strip pits (around Blanford) : bluegills, Lake in Lincoln State Park: nice small- crappies and bass. Wabash River: trotline mouth and pan fish. for channel, flatheads, largemouth and smallmouth bass. WARRICK Strip pits: largemouth bass, bluegills and VIGO erappies. Izaak Walton Lake (West Terre Haute) : very good crappie fishing. SOUTH CENTRAL *TROUT STREAMS AND GREENE LAKES IN INDIANA West Fork and White Rivers: trotline and hand line for channels. Strip pits (in Lin- (Dept. of Conservation, 1959 Revision) ton area):