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The town-frame fish record is a lake record, because the lake is the water the record watches. Worster Lake — 327 acres, man-made, named for Darcey (Darcy in some carriers) Worster, the conservation-club advocate who first pressed for a park on Potato Creek in the late 1930s, on the DNR brochure's telling — carries a published fish list in the Visit South Bend Mishawaka park guide read first-hand: bluegill, crappie, largemouth bass, hybrid striped bass (wipers), channel and bullhead catfish and perch, fished from boats under electric trolling motors only, with ice fishing in winter on the general park accounts. The river frame prints separately: the South Bend build's great fish, the lake sturgeon, belongs to the St. Joseph River between its dams, and no sturgeon record for Potato Creek or Worster Lake was found or is claimed here — a negative printed at its true size. No trout or salmon ladder count of the river kind applies to this creek; the managed-river article the baseline requires for river cities has no township counterpart, and that absence is the finding. Potato Creek's own pre-lake fish list — what the mill-era creek held — was not found in the carriers reached and stands as a named gap, its settler the early Indiana fish-commission reports.