116 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Such ready acoossihility is by no means tlie least of its charms and it 

 liolds a hriuht future as further flood control and reservoir projects 

 materialize. 



Such success has attended the introduction of bass in certain of the 

 San Diego city water service reservoirs that a well warranted plea for 

 an entire removal of the -\nnter closed season upon these fish is being 

 made to the present leii'islatur(> liy those who argue correctly that the 

 fish are best for the table in winter ami have so increased that in the 

 present open season the anglers cannot hold their numbers within the 

 limits of desirability. 



The efi^orts witli game have not been relaxed during the biennial 

 period. By stricter legislation and by steadily increasing the measures 

 toward enforcement of law, the state has ])een Imilding its best against 

 the certainty of increases in demand each year. Propagation of game 

 is to be reinforced by wholesale importation as soon as the experimental 

 work has demonstrated the right si)ecies with which to win. 



Nor have the activities of the California conservation commissioners 

 been comprised entirely by limitations of sportsmen. Rather, the aim 

 has been to stimulate field-sports, to encourage a wider use of our wild 

 life resources by a greater number of outdoor exploiters every succeed- 

 ing season. In every practical way, this object has been advanced. 

 Information has been distributed broadcast through all available chan- 

 nels, and always hand in hand with the most direct aims of conservation 

 that there may be more fish for which to angle and more game to hunt. 



Last summer, after several conferences with leading sportsmen and 

 business men of the Owens Valley, where the attraction value of fish 

 and game are appreciated at par. Commissioner Connell succeeded in 

 organizing a movement for the building of a trail into the now virtu- 

 ally inaccessible "Sixty Lake Basin" above Mount Whitney Hatchery, 

 in which wonderful wealth of previously barren waters, the Fish and 

 Game Commission has {)lanted and built up such a stock of trout, two 

 miles above the sea, that until additional feed was introduced, the fish 

 had increased beyond the capacity of those high lakes to fatten them. 

 This last year, exploration parties found tlieiii in prime condition 

 awaiting the flies of the sportsman. As a result — partly of the success- 

 ful acclimatization of the fish, partly of the organization of local senti- 

 ment in favor of making this entirely new vacation ground easy of 

 access another summer — an excellent trail is being surveyed. Thus, the 

 present top-heavy demand of southern California sportsmen upon 

 the Mono Sierra will be diversified by this virtually virgin counter 

 attraction one hundred miles nearer the center of population. 



Such linking up of all the otherwise diverging lines in behalf of a 

 direct, straight-from-the-shoulder policy of encouraging, regulating and 



