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The Fish Pond

In 1885 (perhaps 1884), Ike Becker, brother Reuben and I made the Ice Pond. About that time, and before that, different ones around had fishponds. Enos and I started out to get some carp to put into the pond. We hitched up the spring-wagon and went down east of Shiloh to Wampler's, where they had a fishpond, but they didn't have any carp. We then drove up close to New Carlisle, to people by the name of Senseman, who had a fish pond, where we got two or three dozen altogether and put them in a lard can. Some were small, about the length of a pocket knife, and a few were larger, about ten inches long, for the purpose of spawning. We brought them home and put them in that little pond west of the trestle where the larger ones laid their eggs. This was in the spring. The eggs hatched out and then that fall we took them out and put them in the Big Pond. That was the start of the carp. They turned out to be not so tasty as at first thought. They had dark meat and too much of a "mud" taste. Perhaps six or eight years later we began to get rid of the carp, taking small ones up to the reservoir for bait, and began to get other fish, Bass, Goggle-eyes and Sunfish.

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