Work at Fish Camp in McFarland demanded endurance, toughness, and long hours in wet, cold conditions, with crewmembers working 5½ days a week in all weather for decent wages. Many later moved into fisheries work with the Conservation Department and then the Department of Natural Resources. Recreational pastimes included euchre and the risky practice of "riding the keg" during winter seining, when workers cut ice blocks to reach open water and sometimes rode the blocks as a truck pulled them away. The Corn House, built in 1937 by the WPA, stored milk cans of kernel corn used to feed carp in the holding pond until the fish were sold, often under the care of a netman who also repaired seine nets and monitored oxygen levels in the pond during hot summer days or still water. A third main building, a metal structure with a garage, office, and small bunkroom, stood near the parking lot entrance until it was removed after Fish Camp closed. Jobs included camp supervisor, foreman, conservation aide, and seasonal worker, with duties such as catching fish year-round, traveling to other lakes and rivers to harvest fish, sorting and returning sport fish to the lake, feeding carp, loading fish into trucks, transporting carp to railroads in Madison and Janesville, maintaining nets, repairing equipment and vehicles, patching waders and gear, and playing cards in spare time. Former workers recalled arriving covered in carp scales after Saturday fish loading and never fully removing the tar from their fingernails, while netmen earned higher pay because torn seines often needed major repairs.