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shoveling' out the suow and opening the station was an arduous one and 

 one fraught with danger from the threatening snowslides. ]Mr. Doney 

 and the foreman, Justin Shebley, after studying the conditions carefully 

 recommended that after this season's operations, the temporary equip- 

 ment be moved to a site at a lower altitude on a site easier of access to 

 the railroad. 



During the spring of 1922, 750,000 rainbow and steelhead trout eggs 

 were shipped to the hatchery, but the work of getting the eggs from 

 Johnsville and Blairsden over the deep snow on hand sleds was a very 

 hard task. The eggs hatched in excellent condition and all the fry were 

 planted in good condition. A suitable new site was found on the 

 property of William A. Adams, on Sulphur Creek, where the snow does 

 not fall so deep and where there is no danger of snowslides wrecking 

 the building. A lease for this site was procured from the owners of the 

 property and during the fall the cabin, troughs, tent frame, flumes and 

 foundation will be moved to the new site and set up for next sea.son's 

 operations on a temporary basis. If the new site proves suitable, as it 

 appears to from our study of conditions there, a permanent hatchery 

 will have to be constructed with a capacity sufficient to furnish trout fry 

 for the district mentioned above. 



BEAR LAKE HATCHERY. 



The new hatchery at Green Spot Springs, is known as the Bear Lake 

 Hatchery. We have distributed from this station in Bear Lake and in 

 the streams of San Bernardino County during the last two years, 

 2,228,000 trout fry. The eggs, in 1920-1921 were collected at the egg- 

 collecting stations on the small tributary streams flowing into Bear 

 Lake; viz., Metcalf Creek, North Creek, and Grout Creek. During the 

 spring of ]922, owing to conditions prevailing at these stations, caused 

 by extremely cold weather and low water, the spawning fish did not 

 enter the creeks when they were ripe and ready to spawn, but congre- 

 gated in schools off the mouths of the creeks where they remained until 

 maturation had taken place in the ovaries, and when they did enter the 

 creeks only a small percentage of the eggs could be fertilized, owing to 

 the over-retention of the eggs. The average number was collected but 

 owing to the small percentage fertilized, we were compelled to ship 

 eggs from our northern California stations to furnish the Bear Lake 

 Hatchery Avitli its capacity number of eggs. Fishing has continued good 

 in Bear Lake all season and if conditions are favorable, the usual num- 

 ber of eggs will be collected. 



Reports have reached us several times during the last two seasons 

 that someone had introduced black bass into Bear Lake without a permit 

 from the Pish and Game Commission which is a violation of the la\^^ 

 Xo proof of this was had until a large mouth black bass was taken from 

 the lake this summer. This is to be deplored, as the bass and trout will 

 not thrive together in the same waters. In a few years, if the bass 

 increase, they will gradually destroy the trout, and trout fishing in 

 IVar Lake will be greatly diminished. The fisliing for black bass will 

 not take the place of trout fishing as bass will not bite in high altitudes 

 except when the weather is favorable. The law against the introduction 

 of fish into the waters of this state by pfivalc pai'ties, without a permit. 



