Sunday, February 5, 1956, Section B, Page 7 HODGES FISH PROJECT A SHOCKING SIGHT By Rolla Williams A man can develop a massive revulsion to rotenoning a fishing lake just watching the Lake Hodges project. It's a shocking sight: Fish by the thousands, perhaps millions, popping to the surface, gyrating in macabre dances, stiffening in the posture of death. It hurts more when you're in the prow of a skiff keeping this death watch, and five and six and seven pound bass, their scales glinting with hues of bronze and silver, float silently by. These are the bull shouldered, great hearted kings of our fresh water, Inch-for-inch and pound-for-pound these are the ones who'll outfight any of our other species. A bulldog bass like this on the end of a line is thrill enough to warm the fisherman for a lifetime. And now they're dead. It's a cruel thing which will continue till science produces a selective fish poison which destroys carp only and does not harm bass. The carp had to go, they ruined Hodges as a fishing hole. Well, that's behind us. Next comes the restocking of the lake with game species and then reopening to the fishing public in another 18 months. But those giant bass floating on the surface at Lake Hodges, a terrible, shocking, heart-wringing sight.