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varieties of trout has been of great value and of universal popularity 

 with the public. It should be noted that some experiments of much 

 scientific value have been undertaken which give promise of interesting 

 results. Waters uninhabited ])y fisli have been available for such 

 experiments. Conditions have been favorable for testing the develop- 

 ment of steelhead trout fry when planted in waters where the fish can 

 not readily run to the ocean. Other experiments along similar lines to 

 observe what changes, if any, take place in the apparent characteristics 

 of golden trout have been undertaken and these experiments, as well as 

 the steelhead experiment, have been the subject of previous biennial 

 reports from the Fresno office. The time to draw conclusions from 



Fig. 86. Fishing for salmon with hook and line on the San Joaquin River at the Miller and 

 Lux weir at Mendota, Fresno County. Photograph by A. D. Ferguson. 



these experiments should be ripe in the summer seasons of 1916 

 and 1917. 



The following copies of reports cover the fish planting enterprises of 

 the Fresno office during the seasons 1914 and 1915. 



Report Trout Planting 1914. 



By reason of the magnitude of the operations, the distances over 

 which the fish were transported and the fact that golden trout alone 

 were used in the transplanting operations, the fish planting by the 

 Fresno office in the summer months of 1914, was the most important 

 undertaking ever inaugurated by that office. 



On July 1, 1914, Deputy Ellis left Fresno with a finely equipped 

 pack train of twenty mules, of which fourteen carried fish cans and six 

 carried provisions and horse feed. The fish planting crew consisted 

 of Deputies Ellis, Brownlow, Bullard and Smalley. Later Messrs. 

 Walter Williams, Ray C. Ellis and Tom P. Ferguson were engaged as 

 assistants in connection with the expedition. Mr. D. A. Williams, a 

 well known business man of Fresno, fell in with the expedition at 



