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HUNTING AND FISHING IN MONTANA 



Install Screens and Save the Fry 



traps for capturing the fish have been improved, the increased collec- 

 tions and the quality of the eggs proving them superior to the old 

 traps which have been torn out. The new traps have a natural gravel 

 bottom and green fish ripen as well in them as though they were 

 lying in the poos of the stream. The eastern brook trout is being 

 gradually removed from this lake and rainbow trout being introduced. 

 It is believed that the grayling, native and rainbow will thrive to- 

 gether, and within a short time rainbow trout eggs can be collected 

 along with the eggs of the grayling and native trout. 



Dojirborii : This was once a private hatchery and has been leased 

 by the state for a nominal sum and for a period of several years' du- 

 ration. The hatchery is very small and is in need of improved equip- 

 ment. A large quantity of eggs were shipped to this station but due 

 to lack of proper equipment and inexperienced men nearly all the eggs 

 were lost. A second lot of eggs were taken to this station; they were 

 hatched and the fry doing nicely when the industrious beaver con- 

 structed a dam across the source of the water supply for the hatchery 

 and most of the fry were smothered. There will be several thousand 

 lusty yearling native trout available for distribution from this station 

 next spring. There is a good system of ponds at this station and the 

 fry hatched this season were liberated in them; there is abundant food 

 available in the ponds and no doubt the fry will be of good size by the 

 time the ice is out of the Dearborn river. 



FmiuTaiit: At the present time this station consists of a hatchery 

 containing twelve hatching troughs, a tw(>nty-five jar grayling or 

 vvhitofisli battery and a small four-room modern cottage. The grounds 

 have never been fenced and no ininrovements have been made except 

 cutting brush along the creek in the hatchery grounds. A Delco Light 

 plant has been installed in the basement of the house and is of a size 

 large enough to supply light for all the l)uil(lings necessary for this 

 station. At the present time bids are being advertised for the erection 

 of an ice house, and another building which will contain a garage, 

 work simp and store room. There is enough ground available at this 



