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Creeks 7 and 8. — On the north shore about 1 mile west of Creek 6. These are 

 streams of size, the easternmost the larger, with their mouths only 200 yards 

 apart. The two are of the same general character, with fine bottom for 

 spawning beds and moderately rapid rise but no good places to dam nor good 

 hatchery sites near the lake. They are probably long streams, with perhaps 

 a common source farther inland. Heavy underbrush occurs all along the lake 

 and the creeks in this region. Spawning salmon are apparently as abundant 

 in proportion to size as in Creek (5, which is somewhat smaller. 



Creeks 9 and 10. — These small creeks are a few hundred yards west of the 

 preceding and one must steer close inshore to discover their existence. They 

 are near the base of one of the several long, narrow crooked peninsulas that 

 make out from the north shore and then bend and run parallel with the 

 shore, inclosing long, narrow bays. The region about Creeks 9 and 10 is in a 

 considerable bight. A few hundred salmon were seen in the larger of the two. 

 Creeks 11 and 12. — Creek 11 is a very small one on the neck of the peninsula 

 referred to above and discharges into the bight. There may be another little 

 creek on this neck nearer its base. In the bight is a secondary peninsula of 

 the same shape as and lying similarly to the first, inclosing a secondary bight 

 navigable for a small launch. Creek 12 discharges into this on the neck of the 

 little peninsula. No live salmon were seen, but there were several dead stranded 

 at its mouth. The neck of the larger peninsula is but a very few hundred 

 yards wide. The lake could be seen across it from a boat at anchor in the 

 head of the bight 



Creek 13. — A small stream about one-third of a mile west of Creek 12. It 

 was not examined. A few salmon were seen near its mouth. 



Creek IJf. — August 8, 1908. This is at the head of a bight made by another 

 small peninsula like those described above. Tt is small, with a mouth so shal- 

 low that salmon enter with difficulty. Fifty to one hundred had already en- 

 tered and about a dozen were dead at the mouth, but no dead were seen in 

 the creek. Only two or three live salmon were seen off the mouth. The stream 

 has good bottom. It bifurcates a short di-stance up and can not be very large. 

 West of Creek 14 is another peninsula of irregular shape somewhat like a T. 

 It has several small bays, which deliver no creeks. Several considerable 

 schools of salmon turning red were seen hereabouts. From this peninsula 

 westward for several miles there is fine gravel along the lake shore, but no 

 creeks. A launch can skirt the shore very closely. Many large schools were 

 .seen, in total many thousands of salmon, and some of them miles from the 

 nearest creek. They were not all in spawning color. The deep water in many 

 places along here comes close to shore, which shelves off abruptly into 15 or 

 20 feet of water, in some places at an angle of nearly 45°. Often the bottom 

 could not be seen at 30 feet from shore. Dead salmon were only occasional. 

 Native drying racks were seen on shore, and the shelving bank and shoi-e ap- 

 peared good spawning ground. The salmon seen had mostly turned red, and it 

 seems probable some may spawn here. Great schools, startled by the launch, 

 would be seen for an instant as they shot away from shore into deeper water. 

 Creek 15. — This is a little creek on a gravel point that was covered with 

 willow and alder. It has two mouths but is too small to carry salmon. There 

 are four small islands near. Opposite the easternmost of these soundings 

 showed 5i fathoms at 30 feet from shore and 15 fathoms at 100 feet. 



At places between the mouths of Creeks 15 and 16 strands of long grass on 

 the bottom of the lake showed the current was making gently toward the head 

 instead of the foot of the lake. 



Creek 16. Steep Creek. — August 8, 1908. It comes down from the west side 

 of the highest and westernmost of the flat top range of mountains and is 

 marked by the steepest gradient of all the tributaries of the lake. It affords 

 favorable places for a dam, but the volume of water is too small to maintain 

 a hatchery. Many salmon were present for so small a stream, and many eggs 

 were seen in the water. Some distance up its temperature was 42° F. The 

 shore region adjoining might furnish many spawning salmon. Between Creek 

 IG and the main inlet a sounding of 27 fathoms was made about 100 yards oflC 

 the point making out from the north shore. 



Creek 17, main inlet.— This stream drains the lakes above Aleknagik and 

 is by far the largest of all the tributaries of the latter. On June 12, 1908, 

 while ice still covered the lake west of the inlet, the flow in the latter was at a 

 high stage, the current swift, and the water very clear. Only with difficulty 

 could a boat have been pushed up the heavy riffles, which in places become 

 rapids. Some drift ice was constantly passing. Two hours' walk up the trail 



