22 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OP FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



After the spawn was all taken, about the first of August, I sent Mr. 

 Richardson to the city to begin shipping Black bass from the Spring 

 Valley Water Company's lakes. 



Mr. Hunt stopped at the hatchery till most of the young trout were 

 shipped in the latter part of September. He then went to the Sisson 

 Hatchery to receive the first lot of salmon eggs from the United States 

 Hatchery on the McCloud River. I had already been up there (August), 

 and painted the troughs with asphalt varnish, and turned on the water 

 to soak them in readiness for the September run of salmon eggs. 



I stopped at the Tahoe Hatchery, working on the house and flume 

 most of the time until both were finished. 



The fish being all shipped, the house and flume finished, several cords 

 of wood got into the house for the next spring work, the hatchery was 

 closed up on the last of October, 1889. 



The distribution of this season's trout (1889) at Lake Tahoe will be 

 seen on reference to the tables. 



BLACK BASS. 



Seth Green brought the first Black bass to California. These were 

 brought out at the expense of a sportsmen's club, and placed in Temes- 

 cal Lake, near Oakland. A few waters have been stocked from the young 

 of these bass. 



The second lot of Black bass was brought out by B. B. Redding, for 

 the California Fish Commission, and planted in the Crystal Springs 

 reservoir, near San Mateo, with the permission of the Spring Valley 

 Water Company, for breeding purposes, with the privilege of shipping 

 the progeny of these fish to stock the waters of this State. 



The Black bass is a splendid game fish, fighting bravely and fiercely for 

 its liberty, many anglers claiming that there is more sport fishing for 

 them than for trout. They are also a delicious fish to eat. They will 

 do well in almost any of our fresh waters, either rivers or lakes; they 

 multiply very rapidly, and require no aid from artificial .propagation. 

 When waters are once stocked with them, they are to stay, if fair play 

 is shown them. They should be protected for several years till the origi- 

 nal stock has had a chance to breed two or three times, and afterwards 

 no fishing should be allowed for several months during the spawning 

 season. Like any other live stock, if breeders enough are not reserved, 

 the stock will become diminished. 



The Black bass, like Striped bass are ravenous feeders; they will devour 

 the Sticklebacks, which almost all fish avoid on account of their spines. 



Not many of our public waters have been as yet stocked with these 

 fish. They should be, for when once they become stocked with Black 

 bass it is done for all time. 



Clear Lake, in Lake County, will make, when it has been well stocked 

 with Black bass, a splendid and extensive resort for anglers. There is an 

 inferior fish there which breeds in myriads, which will give grand feasting 

 for Black bass. 



It was thought to be high time that some systematic work should begin 

 to stock all the waters of our State that are proper to plant with bass: 

 Clear Lake, the Blue Lakes, Tulare Lake, Goose Lake, and many smaller 

 lakes in our State, and perhaps the great Klamath Lakes. Probably it 



