152 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
Now just a few words regarding the fish cultural value of 
this golden trout. In the first place, as I have already said, it 
is an exceedingly beautiful trout. In the second place, it is an 
exceedingly game fish. Unfortunately it will take any sort of 
lure, and therein lies the danger of its extermination. Many 
camping parties go into the Kern River canyon every season. 
While I was on the creek a period of two or three days, there 
were several parties, composed of from two to eight people, en- 
camped on the creek. They were fishing all the time, and I 
was sorry to see in the “Outlook” that one man, who should 
have known better, as he is professedly a friend of game and 
fish protection, admitted that his party of three ate sixty of 
these fish for supper. That is more than our entire party of ten 
people took in three days for table purposes and for specimens. 
Secretary: What is the temperature of the water? 
Dr. Evermann: About 53° to 55° F., when we were there, 
just a year ago to-day. 
The golden trout is a hardy fish. Some years ago the Cali- 
fornia Fish Commission took a number of specimens out by 
pack train from the creek, a long day’s pack down the Lone 
Pine, and then by rail around to San Francisco, to the hatchery 
at Sisson, and they reached there with scarcely any mortality. 
But soon after the fish reached there they died on account of 
defective water supply. 
Last spring a Sportsman’s Association of San Francisco, 
which was having an exhibit, sent a man to Cottonwood Creek, 
and he got forty or fifty specimens of the closely related species 
found there; and they reached San Francisco without the loss 
of a single individual, and remained in the aquariums there for 
several weeks, without loss, and finally were taken to the hatch- 
ery at Sisson, where some of them still remain. The Bureau of 
Fisheries made an attempt last spring to get trout out from 
Voleano Creek for the Portland Exposition, but an accident 
happened to the fish after leaving Lone Pine, and the attempt 
was unsuccessful. But everything that we do know about the 
golden trout, indicates that it is a hardy fish and can be trans- 
ported easily, and no doubt would do exceedingly well in our 
smaller mountain streams, particularly in various places in the 
west. I do not know if it would do so well in any of the New 
