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"The law, as might be expected, is being abused scandalously. The 

 summer months are time enough for fishing. Fish caught now are full of 

 eggs. A couple of seasons more of this and we shall have no trout left. 



"The local fish and game club and papers and sportsmen of central 

 Oregon should combine in petitioning a repeal of this law so far as it affects 

 the much-fished Deschutes." 



EASTERN BROOK TROUT IN UMATILLA COUNTY. 



Mr. C. K. Cranston, of Pendleton, Oregon, has furnished a very inter- 

 esting report in regard to the trout that have been planted in Umatilla 

 County. He says: 



"I believe the stock of Rainbow trout in Umatilla and its tributaries 

 is as good as I have ever known it within the past seventeen years. I have 

 been a very frequent angler on these streams during that period. 



"The only non-native species supplied has been Eastern Brook trout. 

 Plantings have been made for four successive years. This species has been 

 placed in all of the streams which were considered suitable. From personal 

 investigation and from inquiries which I have made continually from anglers 

 and others, it seems the result, as far as Eastern Brook trout are concerned, 

 is rather disappointing. Practically no reports of the presence of Eastern 

 Brook trout have reached me from observers along the Umatilla River 

 except that they have occasionally been found in some of the side channels 

 or sloughs separate from the main channel of the river. A number of 

 anglers report the taking of an occasional one of these fish, some of which 

 have been as large as one pound, or even a little better, but there is no 

 indication that the fish have increased to any extent, or that they are 

 even holding their own. A small planting made in Bear Creek seems to 

 have disappeared altogether. I have no reports of any having been seen 

 in McKay or Birch Creeks. 



"The only really hopeful result of our efforts is from two plantings 

 made in Camas Creek. Most of the fry for this stream were put in a small 

 stream on the farm of Frank Hilbert, near Ukiah, Oregon. The first season 

 following the planting of the fry in this stream it was reported to me that 

 they were very numerous, and that autumn a further report came in that 

 they were spawning. Since this I have had numerous reports that brook 

 trout of all sizes, up to better than one pound in weight, are abundant, 

 and, furthermore, that they are gradually working down into the main 

 channel of Camas Creek. 



"Camas Creek throughout much of its course is more placid than the 

 average mountain stream of this section. The success in this stream rather 

 than in others has strengthened my opinion that the meandering meadow 

 streams are better adapted to Eastern Brook trout than the rough, rapid 

 streams." 



Pag* four 



