. American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. The Buffalo Fishes. Common Buffalo Fish Ictiobus cyprinella (Cuvier & Valenciennes) This species reaches a length of 3 feet, and a weight of 50 pounds or more. In certain lakes in the Mississippi Valley (notably Lake Washington, Minnesota and the Okeboji lakes in northwestern Iowa) extraordinary runs of very large buffalo fish occur occasion- ally. These runs take place in the spring
. American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. The Buffalo Fishes. Common Buffalo Fish Ictiobus cyprinella (Cuvier & Valenciennes) This species reaches a length of 3 feet, and a weight of 50 pounds or more. In certain lakes in the Mississippi Valley (notably Lake Washington, Minnesota and the Okeboji lakes in northwestern Iowa) extraordinary runs of very large buffalo fish occur occasion- ally. These runs take place in the spring at the spawning time of the fish, and usually at the time of a heavy rain when the tribu- tary streams are full and the connecting marshes are flooded. Then these fish come up from the lake, in great numbers, crowding the inlets and spreading over the flooded marshes. They remain only a few days, and soon disappear as suddenly and mysteri- ously as they came; but their brief stay has been long enough to permit great slaughter by the farmers of the surrounding country, who kill great numbers with pitchforks, clubs and other primitive weapons, and haul them away in wagon loads. After returning to the lakes nothing more is seen of them until the next spring, or possibly not for several years. In these northern lakes these fish rarely or never take the hook, nor can they be successfully gilled, but in the lower Mississippi Valley they are frequently taken on set-lines baited with balls of dough. In Louisiana, where they are known as the gourdhead buffalo, they are of considerable commercial interest. The flesh, though 39. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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