
HOOD RIVER AND WASCO COUNTY NOTES 
By WARDEN W. O. HADLEY, of The Dalles, Oregon. 
for the sportsmen by restocking the streams and lakes of Oregon, 
I am taking for example Waddam’s Lake, situated in Hood River 
County at tle head of the east fork of Eagle Creek, about 11 miles south 
by trail from the Herman Creek ranger station. This lake is a beautiful 
body of water about one mile long, one-half mile wide and very deep. 
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a SHOW what is being done by the Fish and Game Commission 
On July 14, 1915, the Oregon Fish and Game Commission shipped a 
carload of Eastern brook trout to Hood River, and out of this carload 
the Hood River Game Association packed into the lake 22,000. This 
being a landlocked lake, there were no fish in it up to this time. ~ 
Since the first planting of fish in this lake District Forester C. C., 
Hon has packed in additional trout from the Central Hatchery at Bonne- 
ville by way of the Herman Creek trail. 
The result of the planting of this gamey fish has been that all 
anglers who go to this lake are more than repaid for the trip. Many 
fishermen have enjoyed good sport there during the last few months, 
among them Messrs. Russell Field, J. C. Cole, Ulman Weller and Marion 
Kerr, of Mosier, who during their stay of several days landed many 
12-inch trout which were from the 1915 planting. Mr. Cole says he had 
some of the best fishing he ever enjoyed. 
When the new trail up Eagle Creek to this lake is completed this 
will make a very popular outing place. At this place and around Mud 
Lake there are an abundance of huckleberries, which will be an addi- 
tional attraction to campers. 
New York furnishes Oregon with one very good sportsman, in the 
person of H. W. Shuttuck, who makes my district twice a year. This 
morning I sent him out on the Deschutes with two congenial sports—R. J. 
Gilbert and Clarence Hedges, of The Dalles. 
It was hard for me to turn this trip down, but other work would 
not permit my going. When it comes to lazy men around town, Hedges, 
who is editor of The Dalles Chronicle, takes the bun, but when he gets 
on a good fishing stream there is a marked difference in his actions. 
A short time ago I wanted to make a trip to the Deschutes, so I sug- 
gested that he get out his ‘‘gas wagon.’’ He said he wanted to reduce 
a little and would go, On our return to The Dalles he weighed in and 
claimed he had lost 18 pounds on the trip, so the reader may know that 
he goes some when on a fishing trip. 
J. A. Epping, better known as ‘‘Dad,’’ is the proudest fisherman 
in the Hood River Valley, having caught a 27-inch steelhead in the upper 
Hood River, and is going around telling his friends all about it and how 
long it took him to land it. In fact, he hardly has time to attend to 
his farm work. 
