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A local high school kid was hired to operate it, cutting the seaweed along the lake shores, and after - throwing in a rake on a rope and dragging the cut wet dripping green weed onto the orange metal barge - the first metal boat I had ever seen and was surprised that it floated.
One year and it all happened while I was at school. They seined the lake for Carp and put them into large submerged wood barred cases. What will happen to the carp I asked? They will be sold to the Chinese in Chicago I was told.
On a summer morning seems like a sunny Saturday - I walked out the door and around the front of the house lakeside the back door channel side, and it was fish of every kind: Bluegills, Sunfish, Crappies, MudPuppies, Bullheads, Catfish, Carp, Perch, Northern Pike, Large Mouth Bass, Pickerel, the rarely seen Dog Fish and the never seen Garfish with long and thin snout like a Swordfish; and the only ones I had ever seen before were stuffed on the wall at the Lumber Yard UpTown until that day: I saw actual live Garfish.
It was masses of oxygen starving fins near finished, for a distance of forty to fifty feet from shore, all around the lake. Fish so thick one could walk on them all gulping and gasping. The lake had an improvement association, and they had decided to put a chemical in the lake to kill the algae and this was the result. It took the oxygen out of the water.
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