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  REPORT 
  OF 
  COMMISSIONER 
  OF 
  FISH 
  AND 
  FISHERIES. 
  

  

  Ill 
  parts 
  of 
  Missouri 
  the 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  distributed 
  from 
  the 
  ISTeoslio 
  

   hatchery 
  are 
  doing- 
  well. 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  J. 
  Barrows, 
  game 
  aud 
  lish 
  warden, 
  

   writing 
  from 
  Wayiiesville, 
  Mo., 
  June 
  13, 
  1890, 
  states 
  that 
  on 
  February 
  

   17, 
  1805, 
  he 
  placed 
  1,000 
  young 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  in 
  Eoubidoux 
  Creek 
  at 
  

   that 
  place 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  now 
  biting 
  well, 
  some 
  weighing 
  a 
  pound 
  

   being 
  caught. 
  In 
  Hickory 
  Creek 
  and 
  Crane 
  Creek 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  adults 
  

   were 
  taken 
  in 
  18i>0. 
  

  

  The 
  liarainie 
  iiiver, 
  in 
  AVyoming, 
  has 
  been 
  very 
  successfully 
  stocked 
  

   with 
  rainbow 
  trout, 
  from 
  eggs 
  sent 
  from 
  the 
  McCIoud 
  IMver, 
  California, 
  

   in 
  1895 
  and 
  1890, 
  and 
  from 
  Neosho, 
  Mo., 
  and 
  the 
  State 
  hatchery 
  in 
  

   recent 
  years. 
  Mr. 
  Custav 
  Schnitger, 
  fish 
  commissioner 
  of 
  Wyoming, 
  

   reports 
  in 
  letters 
  dated 
  October 
  10 
  and 
  December 
  4, 
  1895, 
  that 
  the 
  Big 
  

   and 
  Little 
  Laramie 
  rivers 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  waters 
  of 
  the 
  North 
  Platte 
  

   Iiiver 
  have 
  proved 
  excellent 
  for 
  rainbow 
  trout, 
  and 
  that 
  some 
  are 
  

   reported 
  as 
  weighing 
  as 
  much 
  as 
  9 
  ])ouuds. 
  By 
  use 
  of 
  a 
  seine, 
  Mr. 
  

   Schnitger 
  ascertained 
  the 
  presence 
  of 
  many 
  tine 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  in 
  holes 
  

   in 
  the 
  Big 
  Laramie 
  Eiver, 
  and 
  forwarded 
  to 
  the 
  Commission 
  a 
  photo- 
  

   graph 
  of 
  13 
  thus 
  secured 
  ; 
  the 
  largest 
  was 
  24^ 
  inches 
  long- 
  and 
  weighed 
  

   over 
  7 
  jjounds, 
  several 
  others 
  weighed 
  pounds, 
  and 
  the 
  smallest 
  

   weighed 
  over 
  4 
  pounds. 
  It 
  is 
  reported 
  that 
  over 
  100 
  were 
  taken 
  from 
  a 
  

   hole 
  at 
  one 
  haul 
  of 
  the 
  seine. 
  In 
  Wyoming 
  the 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  is 
  regarded 
  

   as 
  "truly 
  a 
  fine 
  food-fish, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  an 
  excellent 
  fish 
  fur 
  anglers." 
  

  

  Mr. 
  J. 
  I). 
  Phipps, 
  of 
  Longs 
  Gap, 
  Grayson 
  County, 
  Va., 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  

   young 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  deposited 
  in 
  Peach 
  Bottom 
  Creek, 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  

   the 
  New 
  River 
  (which, 
  in 
  turn, 
  is 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Kanawha), 
  have 
  

   grown 
  and 
  propagated 
  as 
  fast 
  as 
  any 
  fish 
  he 
  ever 
  saw, 
  min-h 
  faster, 
  in 
  

   fact, 
  than 
  the 
  brook 
  trout. 
  The 
  stream 
  was 
  posted 
  and 
  no 
  fishing 
  

   allowed 
  for 
  four 
  years 
  ; 
  in 
  1895 
  the 
  creek 
  was 
  full 
  of 
  the 
  finest 
  trout, 
  

   examples 
  22 
  inches 
  long 
  having 
  been 
  caugbt. 
  Their 
  fiavor 
  is 
  fine 
  and 
  

   they 
  are 
  the 
  gamiest 
  fish 
  Mr. 
  Phipps 
  ever 
  met 
  with. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Holstou 
  River, 
  in 
  Smyth 
  County, 
  Va., 
  the 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  is 
  

   abundai\t. 
  The 
  reports 
  received 
  from 
  this 
  stream 
  several 
  years 
  ago 
  

   announced 
  excellent 
  line 
  fishing. 
  One 
  24 
  inches 
  long 
  and 
  weighing 
  

   Of 
  pounds 
  was 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  river 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  Staley 
  Creek 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Coalson, 
  of 
  Marion, 
  in 
  1892; 
  and 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Gibboney, 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   place, 
  has, 
  with 
  a 
  friend, 
  taken 
  110 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  from 
  Staley 
  Creek 
  in 
  

   two 
  days' 
  fishing, 
  the 
  fish 
  averaging 
  a 
  foot 
  in 
  length. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Frank 
  N. 
  Clark, 
  superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Fish 
  Com- 
  

   mission 
  station 
  at 
  Northville, 
  Mich., 
  writes 
  as 
  follows 
  regarding 
  the 
  

   rainbow 
  trout 
  in 
  parts 
  of 
  Michigan: 
  

  

  The 
  Au 
  Sable 
  River 
  was 
  first 
  planted 
  with 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  about 
  seventeen 
  or 
  eighteen 
  

   years 
  ago, 
  I 
  think, 
  from 
  eggs 
  forwarded 
  from 
  the 
  collecting 
  station 
  in 
  California 
  to 
  the 
  

   Michigan 
  Fish 
  Commission, 
  hatched 
  at 
  their 
  hatchery, 
  and 
  planted 
  by 
  them. 
  Since 
  

   that 
  time 
  there 
  have 
  been 
  several 
  plants 
  made 
  at 
  different 
  times, 
  but 
  not 
  in 
  large 
  

   numbers. 
  The 
  success 
  of 
  this 
  river 
  is 
  probably 
  the 
  most 
  marked 
  of 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  rivers 
  

   of 
  Michigan 
  Avhere 
  rainbow 
  trout 
  have 
  been 
  planted. 
  In 
  certain 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  river 
  

   large 
  rainbows 
  are 
  taken 
  with 
  hook 
  and 
  line, 
  often 
  weighing 
  from 
  .5 
  to 
  7 
  pounds, 
  and 
  

   in 
  our 
  net 
  fishing 
  for 
  brook 
  trout 
  during 
  October, 
  1895, 
  the 
  trout 
  caught 
  would 
  run 
  

  

  