INLAND FISHERIES 



Conductinq a creel census on /he Sacramento River near Ball's Ferry. Fisheries Biologist Bill Van Woerl measures an angler's catch. 



(Fish and Game Photo by John E. Riggs) 



Inland Fisheries activities during the biennium \\ ere 

 stepped up in nearly every phase of fisheries manage- 

 ment. Certain activities needed to cope with the ever 

 increasing water utilization projects received special 

 emphasis, but increased emphasis was also placed on 

 the many programs designed principally to maintain 

 or improve sport fishing in the face of intensified 

 angling pressures. 



Special fact-finding investigations, coupled with ex- 

 tensive negotiations between department fisheries per- 

 sonnel and water development agencies, resulted in 

 adequate protection measures for the fisheries threat- 

 ened bv \\ ater developments, as well as plans to take 

 advantage of any new^ fisheries possibilities the\' pre- 

 sent. 



Listed on page 46 are some of the major new 

 public fishing waters created during the biennium. 

 The Folsom Reservoir in Sacramento, Placer and El 

 Dorado Counties, Pine Flat Reservoir in Fresno 

 County, and Isabella Reservoir in Kern County are 

 three of the most important new reservoirs. 



Good Fisheries Developing 



Eff'orts to create good fishing in these waters have 

 been an added burden, but have been highly success- 

 ful in most instances. A splendid smallmouth bass fish- 

 erv is developing rapidly in Pine Flat Reservoir, and 

 it may well attract state-wide attention by the spring 

 of 1957. 



An initial planting of more than 1,000,000 warm- 

 water fish in Folsom Reservoir created some excellent 

 fishing in the spring and summer of 1956. It, too, 

 should develop rapidly into one of the best warm- 

 water fishing waters in the State. 



The department's inland fisheries investigations, 

 aimed at learning how- to improve and regulate im- 

 portant fisheries to best advantage, provided the basis 

 for all changes in regulations. 



Thev also provided the basis for other management 

 activities such as fish stocking and rescue, rough fish 

 control, flow maintenance dams, construction of 

 screens and ladders, and the installation of other 



.33. 



