THe. OREGON SPORTSMAN 165 

FOUR MILE LAKE, KLAMATH COUNTY 
By COMMISSIONER C. F. STONE, Klamath Falls 
AVING just returned from a trip to the already justly famous 
Four Mile Lake, I might add a few items of interest to what 
has been written concerning the multitudes of fine rainbow trout 
in that body of water. In the first place, in making a trip to that 
beautiful lake at the base of Mount Pitt, it is a necessary precaution 
to secure a sufficient number of anglers of established veracity to 
vouch for the facts you may state upon your return. To be sure of the 
necessary corroborative evidence this year, I selected, or rather thrust 
myself upon Dr. George A. Cathey, Jack Slater, W. B. Parker and 
Henry Stout. These are all good sportsmen, enthusiastic hikers and 
will conveniently vouch for anything a friend of theirs may write that 
pertains to fishing or hunting. There was a time when, to relieve the 
pack horses of the burden of carrying liquid refreshments, these nim- 
rods would halt under a yellow pine tree and apply themselves to the 
task of reducing the bulk of such burden so effectively that it would 
be apparent at once how indispensable was their presence to a well 
equipped fishing expedition. But, as stated above, they yet have a 
place in a trip of this sort. 
We arrived at Four Mile Lake about noon, June 20, and while the 
sights were not so sensational as a year ago at same date, owing. to 
extreme lateness of the season, we were soon amply repaid for our 
rather tiresome effort to reach the lake. We were informed by the 
man in charge of the state’s egg-taking station that the rainbow had 
started to run about a week before, but that the fish were coming but 
slowly. A small section of Four Mile Creek, at the outlet of the lake, 
has been prepared as a fish trap. This is arranged by racks placed in 
the creek below the outlet, used in connection with a gate at the dam 
erected by an irrigation or power company to control the flow of water 
from the lake. There were at least twenty-five fine rainbow in the 
traps. These had been captured within the preceding twelve hours. 
In the stream between the lake and the dam I counted about one hun- 
dred fine trout. I did not include the one-year-old fish, of which 
