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"Since that time, however, several of the rivers into which they had been intro- 

 duced have furnished excellent rainbow trout fishing, and are apparently favorable 

 streams in which to liberate these fish. Considerable numbers of these fish are now 

 taken in those streams every summer; many individuals are taken of large size, and 

 this fish has become deservedly popular with sportsmen. When these facts became 

 manifest, we decided to again enter upon their propagation. It is our present inten- 

 tion to carry a sufficient stock of these fish to maintain good fishing in streams for 

 which they are suited. 



"There are but few streams in the State where the liberating of the young of this 

 fish has been successful, and those are the larger streams lying in the grayling belt in 

 which the log running has practically come to an end." 



Referring to the rainbow trout the following account is given in the Pennsylvania 

 Fish Commission report, 1895, pages 253-254 and 357-358: 



"When this far-western game fish was first experimented with in the East the 

 mountain streams were tried, but for some reason they did not generally seem to 

 thrive. In Van Camp's stream in Pike county; Hollister's creek in Wayne; Newville 

 in Cumberland, and a few others elsewhere, there was greater or less success, but on 

 the whole the experiment was disheartening, and except on local applications the work 

 of stream stocking with rainbow trout has been practically abandoned. The reason 

 for this failure has not been satisfactorily explained. Placed in waters apparently 

 suitable, they often entirely disappeared almost immediately to turn up in another 

 creek some distance away, the waters of which seemed not nearly as favorable for 

 their habits of growth. A notable example of this was near Erie a few years ago. 

 Here a certain stream near the city of Erie was plentifully planted with rainbow trout 

 and for a time they seemed perfectly satisfied with their new home, but suddenly not 

 one was to be found in the waters in which they had been deposited. A couple of years 

 later fishes of this species were caught in great numbers in a stream two or three miles 

 distant, where no fish of their kind had been placed. Both brooks emptied into Lake 

 Erie, and it is supposed that not being satisfied with their first home they abandoned 

 it for the lake and made their way into the waters where they were subsequently 

 found. In this connection it is noteworthy that some of this fish must have remained 

 in the lake, for recently they have been caught there in some numbers and they seem 

 to be increasing. 



"When the experiment of stream planting with rainbow trout proved generally a 

 failure, lake planting with this fish was attempted. In this, as remarked above, some 

 success has been met with, probably because in bodies of this character they cannot 

 indulge in their seemingly migratory inclinations. Many mountain lakes of the State. 



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