28 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



miles, by putting a line through the sides of their mouths and fastening 

 it to a toggle of wood; these fish pulled back with the strength of a 

 donkey; they were not ripe, and were put in the settling tank. On the 

 following day, when Will was away on the steamer to Taylor Creek for 

 spawn, six of these large fish were stolen. 



The gill net was set every night afterwards for awhile, but the run 

 was over and only a few more were caught. Some of the fish were 

 spawned, and turned out about five thousand of fine looking eggs each. 



The past winter was the hardest ever known here, and the snows the 

 deepest. Those who lived at Tahoe said that it snowed almost continu- 

 ously all the winter. The streams have been booming with icy water 

 all the summer. For some cause but very few fish run up the streams. 

 The fishermen said that the season was a month late, and that the fish 

 would run up by and by; but it was not to be. They all said that the 

 fish must have spawned in the lake. Lake Tahoe was as low as ever 

 was known last fall, and since then it has risen about six feet, being 

 about as high as ever was known; it has also been unusually rough this 

 summer. 



A new wharf has been built near the hatchery; a second-hand boat 

 has been bought, and also a scow for seining and for shipping cans of 

 fish. A great many tourists have visited the hatchery, and expressed 

 their admiration of what they see outside of the hatchery as well as 

 inside. 



BLACK BASS, 1890. 



About August first Will Shebley left the Tahoe Hatchery to go to San 

 Francisco to begin shipping Black bass, leaving Mr. Hunt, who has had 

 charge of the Tahoe Hatchery, with Joe Shebley to distribute the trout 

 now on hand there. After the Tahoe Hatchery is closed for the season, 

 Mr. Hunt will go below and help distribute the Black bass and trout 

 from the Sisson Hatchery. Mr. Richardson will ship trout till the 

 salmon hatching season opens, in the last of September, when he will 

 be stationed at the Sisson Hatchery. The Black bass which we are 

 catching now from San Andres reservoir are from six to nine inches 

 long; these will probably spawn next spring. Seventy-five to one hun- 

 dred of this size is all one man can conveniently and safely handle on 

 a long journey. 



This year, 1890, shipments have been made as follows: One to the 

 Del Monte reservoirs, at Monterey, for the railroad company; one to the 

 Blue Lakes, in Lake County; one to Clear Lake (two shipments were 

 made to this large lake last year); one to the Pajaro River, near Sar- 

 gent's Station; and one to a lake near San Luis Obispo. 



Black bass distribution will continue this fall till as late as possible. 



RAINBOW TROUT AT SHOVEL CREEK HATCHERY, 1890. 



Trapping in Shovel Creek continued till about the first of July. The 

 water was unusually high, on account of the deep snows on the mount- 

 ains. About one million six hundred thousand eggs of the Rainbow 

 trout were taken and eyed there; of these, one hundred and thirty 

 thousand were hatched out and distributed in Shovel Creek — this was 

 to give back the seed for the future from the harvest of eggs which we 

 had gathered there. 



One hundred thousand eggs were shipped to the North Pacific Game 



