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All of these traps should be constructed with concrete toe walls across 

 the bed of the creeks and permanent racks built. The traps made of 

 light material and built on temporary cribs or make-shift affairs are 

 damaged whenever there is a flood on the creeks and consequently we do 

 not get as many eggs as we should. All of this kind of work sliouUl 

 be made permanent whenever funds for permanent work can be 

 obtained. 



TAYLOR CREEK TRAP. 



During the fall of 1921, a trap was constructed in Taylor Creek near 

 Tallac Hatcher}- as it was estimated that it would be cheaper to operate 

 a trap than a seining crew at the mouth of the creek, until the scat- 

 tered run of fish would be attracted to the creek by the overflow of 

 Fallen Leaf Lake which had held the water of Taylor Creek back for 

 several years during the period of drought. The management of tlie 



Fig. 13. Fi.'^h pond Xo. 3 at the Fall Creek Hatcher.v, one of the ponds utilized a.s a 



nursery for young salmon. 



Tallac Hotel liad been storing the water in tliis lake for liydro-electric 

 purposes and caused the flow of water to be so low in the creek dnriiig 

 the spawning season that the fish were not attracted to the stream as in 

 former years and consequently the take of eggs fell olf. 'i'liis i)ast 

 spring, the melting snow and the early rains last fall caused the lake 

 to fill and there was an abundance of water in the creek. The water 

 was so higli that the trap was damaged, but the crew managed to 

 collect approximately 250,000 eggs. With the return of the average 

 seasonal rainfall and snow storms, the creek will have its normal flow 

 and in a year or two the same good run of trout will be found in the 

 creek as during the past twenty-five years, witli the exception of the 

 years when the water was being stored in the lake ; then seining opera- 

 tions will be the proper means of collecting eggs at the mouth of Taylor 

 Creek. 



