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REPORT OP THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Report Trout Planting 1915. 



The fish planting operations of the Frasno office during the 1915 

 season were confined to extending to new waters in the same general 

 locality the plants formerly made in an important part of eastern 

 Fresno Connt3^ 



In the month of August, with a ten-mule pack train, Deputies A. D. 

 Ferguson, in charge of Fresno Division, S. L. N. Ellis and F. A. Bullard 

 proceeded to Dinkey Lake to complete some transplanting work first 

 undertaken in that vicinity several years ago. The expedition was 

 accompanied by Hon. L. B. Gary, chairman of the House Committee on 

 Fish and Game in the legislature of 1915. Mr. Gary was given an 

 opportunity to observe the methods of the Fish and Game Commission 



Fig. 88. Deputies of the Fresno Division do fish planting along with patrol duty. Note the 

 cans of fish on mule-back. Photograph by A. D. Ferguson. 



in establishing trout in available waters which had been theretofore 

 barren. With rainbow trout and black-spotted trout secured from 

 Psalter Creek, plants were made as follows : In the creek which heads 

 on the divide west of "Mining To^vn, " the streams which feed from 

 various directions. Dinkey Creek, the upper main Dinkey Creek, the 

 stream which comes from Cutts Meadow and the streams which are 

 crossed by the trail from Cutts Meadow to Mining Town; all being 

 tributary to Dinkey Creek. 



Thereafter, with eastern brook trout secured at Dinkey Meadows, 

 where they were planted by Deputy Kenneth Hughes in 1910, the upper 

 waters of the main fork of Dinkey Creek were well stocked. 



After fini.shing the stocking of all the main tributaries of Dinkey 

 Greek, the fish planting operations Avere transferred to the north fork 

 of Kings River. At upper Maxon 's Meadow a plentiful supply of rain- 

 bow trout were found, being the result of a plant made in 1910. 

 Drawing on this supply and using fish from 8 to 14 inches in length, 

 the following barren waters were stocked: The lake known as The 

 Devil's Punch Bowl, the south fork of Fleming Greek and two small 



