Nature Bulletin No. 15   May 19, 1945
Forest Preserve District of Cook County
Clayton F. Smith, President
Roberts Mann, Superintendent of Conservation

****:FLOODS

Fish thrive on floods. Then they can gorge themselves on worms, slugs 
and insects from the inundated bottomlands, or on food washed in from 
the fields and woods.

The recent heavy rains have put the DesPlaines river far out of its 
banks. Fish from tributaries and bottomland ponds or lakes where they 
escaped suffocation under the ice last winter, are moving about actively 
and restocking those stretches of the streams where thousands perished 
They may even come upstream, over the dams, from the lower river, 
Very few fish are ever swept downstream over dams.

Within the past few days, bullheads, minnows, bluegills and other kinds 
have been caught, and found to be fat and plump with food.