The Big Fish In Crystal Lake

Conductor W. R. Hibbard, oí the Arm Arbor road, is known to be a very reliable man. Within the last ten days he spent a day at Crystal Lake, which is ten miles this síde oí Frankfort. He, with five other gentlemen, one of whom was D. Kiley, the Ann Arbor oomnieroial agent, went out on the lake on a sruall steamboat. '"In two hours time," said Mr. Hibbard, "we caught 617 perch, weighing 412 pounds. Some percb weighed almost three pounds. The greatest irouble we had in catohing the big felows was to get them. The big peren ay in 30 feet of water. About them ;here was a great shoal of perch 8 and 10 inohes long. The only way to get to the big ones was to throw out a line with a sinker as far as possible, and draw in imrnediately, and a big perch was on the line every time. The water s very olear in Crystal Lake. In lookng over the side of the boat lots of bass veighing 15 pounds could be seen wimming along the bottom. They are ïard to catoh. There are also ruany white flsh in the lake, but they cannot be cáught by a hook and line. I imagine there must be some fly thatwould attract them, bot what it in has not vet )een discovered. "