There is a small diversion about $00 yards below the outlet 

 of Payette Lake which provides water for a fish hatchery. 



Untreated sewage from the town of McCall is discharged into 

 the stream about a half mile doTmstream from the outlet of Payette Lake, 

 but pollution is not extensive. 



The North Fork together with the lakes in its headwaters 

 formerly supported large runs of chinook and blueback salmon, Payette 

 Lake still has a large population of land-locked blueback salmon, 

 called "Little Redfish". This region is now completely inaccessible 

 and of no present value to salmon, 



3G-(1), Clear Creek , — (August 19, 1938; Parkhurst and Morton,) 

 Clear Creek enters the North Fork of the Payette approximately 29 miles 

 above the mouth. The stream is about 16 miles long, of which 6 miles 

 were surveyed. It is of no possible value above the terminus of the 

 survey because of its small size and steep gradient. It was 12 feet 

 wide at the mouth and discharging about 10 c,f,s. The water tempera- 

 ture was 5U,0Fe The gradient is mostly slight, but becomes fairly steep 

 in the upper section. There is little spawning area, the stream bed 

 being coaposed chiefly of sand. There were 2,100 square yards of 

 suitable spawning area, constituting approximately U percent of the 

 total bottom in the portion surveyed. Several beaver dams in the 

 lower section were barriers to fish. There were two small, iinimportant, 

 unscreened diversions for irrigation and stock watering. The stream 

 has a large population of rough fish. It is completely inaccessible, 

 and of little potential value to migratory fish. 



3G-(2). Big Creek , — (August 18, 1938; Parkhurst and Morton,) 

 Big Creek enters the North folic of the Payette approximately 32 miles 

 above the mouth. The stream is about 19 miles long, of which h miles 

 were surveyed. It was 18 feet wide at the mouth and discharging 

 about 30 c,f,s» The water temperature was 6U,0 F, The gradient is 

 slight. There was no suitable salmon spawning area in the section 

 surveyed, the stream bed being composed almost entirely of sand. A 

 series of beaver dams and log jjams were considered impassable to fish 

 at low water, ^ere is an irrigation diversion dam located at the 

 terminus of the survey. This obstruction is 25 feet high, has no 

 fishway, and is a total barrier to fish. About 15 c,f,s, were being 

 diverted into an unscreened ditch. The stream is completely inaccess- 

 ible, and of no present or potential value to migratory fish. 



3G-(3). Gold Foiit Creek ,— (August 17, 1938j Hanavan, Parkhurst, 

 Wilding, and Morton, ) Qold Fork Creek enters the North Fork of the 

 Payette approximately $8 miles above the mouth. It is about 28 miles 

 long, of which 19 miles were surveyed. The stream divides into fovir 

 or five small branches above the terminus of the survey. In the 

 lower part it had an average widtjj of 2k feet, and was discharging 



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