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are found away below the point where brook trout are, 

 and during the spawning season, which begins about 

 February i, they go up stream, and all the way between 

 Wakeley's Point and Stephan's Point (which is a dis- 

 tance of about seven or eight miles) they make beds for 

 the purpose of spawning." 



Mr. W. de C. Ravenel, of the U. S. F. C, says : 

 "In response to your letter with reference to rainbow 

 trout in streams of the east, I regret that I cannot give 

 tou as definite information as I should like. I pre- 

 sume that by the east you mean streams east of the 

 Sierra Nevada — that is, streams in which the rainbow 

 trout was not indigenous. Commencing with Wyo- 

 ming, I would refer you to the reports of their State 

 Commission, which show that rainbow trout are nu- 

 merous in several streams, as a result of plants made by 

 their State Commission and by the United States Com- 

 mission. At one haul of the seine hundreds of fish 

 from three to eight pounds in weight have been taken. 

 In Colorado the rainbow trout is thoroughly established 

 in various branches of the Platte River, also in Twin 

 Lakes and a number of other lakes. In the Ozark re- 

 gions of Missouri and Arkansas numbers of streams 

 have been thoroughly stocked and the trout are doing 

 well. In Iowa, Mr. R. S. Johnson, the superintendent 

 of our station there, reports the collection of adult rain- 

 bow trout in several streams. In Michigan, in the Au 

 Sable River, trout weighing from five to seven pounds 

 are frequently taken. The Au Sable, many years ago 

 was a grayling stream ; but rainbow, brook and grayling 

 are now caught in the same localities. 



"In Eastern Tennessee, in the Jack River, rainbow 

 trout are thoroughly established, and are reproducing; 

 arid in a number of rivers in North Carolina the same 



