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THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



steelhead trout and the rainbow. As a matter of fact, there 

 is mo scientific difference between the steelhead and the 

 rainbow. They are one and the same species. However, a 

 steelhead is a rainbow that during a part of the year fre- 

 quents the salt water. It apparently goes to sea for a while in 

 search of food and then returns to fresh water to spawn.- 

 It may well be called a "sea-run" rainbow. A good example of 

 the steelhead is the fish that runs in the mouth of the 

 Kogue River in the winter and spawns in the early 

 spring. A similar run of fish enters Tillamook Bay and 

 tributary streams, especially the Trask River, also the Colum- 

 bia River and such tributaries as the Willamette, Clackamas 

 and Sandy Rivers. 



A rainbow or red-side, strictly speaking, may be called 

 a fish that stays in fresh water practically the entire year. 

 Perhaps the best example of these fish are those that live 

 in Klamath River and run up Spencer Creek and other such 

 tributaries to spawn. Some of the best rainbow eggs secured 

 in this state are also taken from the fish that live in Odell 

 Lake and Davis Lake, headwaters of the Deschutes River. 

 These two lakes are joined by Davis Creek and in one case 

 the fish run out of Odell Lake down stream to spawn, and 

 from Davis Lake the fish run up stream to spawn. During 

 the past year, 1,212,000 rainbow eggs were taken at the 

 station at Spencer Creek, while 614,700 eggs were taken at 

 Odell Lake station. ~\ 



Eggs From Wild Fish. i 



The trout eggs that are taken in this way from the wild 

 fish are the very best that can be secured for stocking pur- 

 poses. The effort of the Fish and Game Commission has 

 been to secure such eggs from wild stock in every available 

 place. Yet the experience of three years shows that on ac- 

 count of natural difficulties arising, such as washing out of 

 racks by high water, it is impossible to secure enough eggs 

 from wild trout. In fact, during the past three seasons, the 

 Commission has been compelled to purchase a large number 

 of trout eggs from Colorado, Montana and other states. The 

 purchase of outside eggs has been unsatisfactory, especially 



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