Show lampreys in the rivers and lakes of now new york state there is a bandit fish that roams at largo large and makes its living by robbing the gentlemen fish it even attacks such vigorous fish as the black bass and the pickerel fastening itself to them and encking their blood until they are dead the name of this bold bandit is the lamprey professor gage of cornell university has seen 12 of these lampreys lamprey preys spawning at one time in the outlet of cayuga lake alone and he has estimated that they kill more fish than all of 0 the fishermen of the stats state put together the lamprey is about the size and has somewhat the appearance of an eel professor gage advises some manner of killing them by means of traps in the streams as they go up in tho the spring to spawn |