6. Cutthroat trout, Salmo olarkil 



?• Char or Dolly Varden trout. Salve linus malma 



8'. BasB, largemouth blaok, Mioropterui salaoides 



9, Bass, smallmouth blaok, Mioropterus dolomieu 



One sportsman was observed fishing for oray fish near the 

 Colville River. 



Tom Houston of Northport, ffashington, who has fished the Columbia 

 River and tributaries in the area for about 40 years, stated that 

 large oatches of prixe fish were oaught when few people lived in the 

 area but that fishing became progressively poorer as more fishermen 

 came to the area. Occasionally Mr. Rouston catches rainbow, brook, 

 euid Dolly Varden trout; but shiners, whitefish, 8c[uawfish, carp, and 

 suckers are more common, however* 



Harvey Broderious, also of Northport, complained that whitefish 

 seemed to have almost disappeared since the impotmdment was established. 



According to another old time local sportsman, Frank Hines of 

 Keller's Ferry, Washington, bass and occasionally kokanee are oaught 

 in the Seua Foil River, but catches of fish other than sorapfish have 

 been small. He also reports that a run of kokanee ascends the San 

 Foil River to spawn every fall. A large specimen was oaught by him 

 in a sttinned condition this spring, and he saved the head, which was 

 seen by the writers. Judging from the head sise the fish must have 

 weighed between three and four poimds or as muoh as a Colvnnbia River 

 sea-run blueback. There is poor fishing in the slackwater of the 

 San Foil River, but in the upper portions of the stream there is 

 fair fishing for trout and the stream is still heavily fished, 

 Hines reports. 



A large number of kokemee were observed spawning in the San Foil 

 River in 1948, by Clifford J. Burner of the Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 He reports spawning land-locked salmon from the first riffle above 

 slack water to fifty miles upstream. 



Every year numerous kokanee are found below Grand Coulee Dam, 

 of which many are dead and others are injured. What causes the 

 land-looked blueback salmon to migrate from Hoosevelt Lake is not 

 known. Specimens found below the dam apparently had not been starved. 



Interviews were made with sportsmen who had fished the following 

 areas : San Foil River, Gif f ord, Colville River, Sheep Creek, emd Northport. 

 Undoubtedly other areas are fished, although not as extensively. As 

 nearly as could be determined by the surveys, very little fishing is 

 carried on in the reservoir at the present time. Only a few fishermen 



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