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SAN DIEGO COUNTY NOW HAS 
TROUT FISHING. 
The lack of year-round streams has 
driven San Diego County anglers to other 
localities in the past, but now all is 
changed. Cuyamaca Lake, bone dry in 
1913, is now the scene of some of the 
best fishing in the state. 
The results of the present trout season 
at Cuyamaca Lake clearly demonstrate 
the value of the hatchery work of the 
Irish and Game Commission. In 1915, 
2500 trout sent from the State Hatchery 
were planted in the lake. This was 
Fig. 76. 
left to right: Mr. Webb Toms with 3-pounder, Mr. Jack EK. Thornton with 3 and 4 pounders, 
and Mrs. J. 
purely an experiment and the anticipated 
results were doubtful. Thousands of 
trout from the State Hatchery and some 
furnished from the exhibit of the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries at the Expo- 
sition have been added in the last two 
years. Now the fish crop is ready to be 
harvested. On the opening of the trout 
season in May, two limits were taken. 
One bag contained a six and one-half 
pound rainbow trout which was twenty- 
two inches long and seven inches wide 
and took twenty-five minutes to land. 
All other trout taken here have been 
steelhead, weighing from one and one-half 
to six pounds, and good catches have 
Trout caught on opening day of season in Cuyamaca Lake, San Diego County. 
CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 
been made all during the season. The 
larger fish had roe nearly developed and 
the males contained milt. Since no 
schools of small fish have been found near 
the shore it is believed. that the trout are 
spawning in the lake. 
Cuyamaca Lake has been fed solely by 
‘ains and snows which drain into the 
basin. Due to dry winters, the lake be- 
came dry in 1918. Since that time a 
dam has been built and it is very unlikely 
that it will dry up again. 
Due to effort on the part of anglers and 
intelligent and effective work of the State 
From 
E. Thornton with 634-pound rainbow, the largest catch of the day. 
Hatcheries every county in the state may 
now boast of trout fishing. Ideal water 
and food conditions have produced splen- 
did large fish within a short time, and 
Cuyamaca Lake will henceforth be a 
favorite camping place for San Diego 
anglers. ‘These unlooked-for results have 
shown the efficacy of the state’s method 
of augmenting the fish supply by propa- 
gating trout in hatcheries. 
SQUIRREL CAMPAIGNS AND QUAIL. 
Several complaints that quail had been 
poisoned in the squirrel campaigns being 
instituted in many counties have reached 
the Division of Rodent Control of the 
