THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



more could well have been turned loose there. The limited number of 

 fish on hand at the time, however, necessitated leaving this work for a 

 future date. The present inaccessible position of the lake insures the 

 complete stocking of the place, so that a thousand fish may answer the 

 purpose just as well. 



Eigdon lake, located one mile south of Taylor's butte, is another lake 

 which was stocked with 1000 fish. It is similar in size and other respects 

 to Torrey lake. 



The remainder of the shipment of fish was reserved for the five 

 unstocked lakes in the Big Cultus district. Four of these lakes are located 

 at the base of Irish mountain, and near Cultus lake and the mountain by 

 the same name. The largest of these are Eowland and George lakes. They 

 are all in craters of extinct volcanoes or blow-outs. 



Eowland lake is of an elliptical shape and has an area of forty acres 

 or more. A rough formation of huge boulders and steep pinnacles are the 

 remnants of ancient volcanic action. Many deer roam among the high 

 meadows near the lake. In this lake 500 rainbow trout were planted. The 

 fish were carried in buckets from Big Cultus lake, which is about four 

 miles from Eowland. 



Another deep crater lake similar to Eowland lake and about a mile 

 away received a like number of trout of the same variety. A feature of 

 Lake George is its rocky, tree-covered island. The fish put there were 

 also carried in buckets from our camp at Big Cultus lake. The two other 

 lakes in the same locality that were stocked are much smaller. 



The fifth lake in the Cultus district to be stocked is known as Connolly 

 lake. It is a land-locked lake of about fifty acres. A rocky rim extends 

 nearly around the shore. It is five miles southeast of Pack Saddle moun- 

 tain, and the same distance from Big Cultus lake. 



FINGKERLINGS CARRIED FOR EIGHT DAYS. 



Eight days and eight hours elapsed between the time we received the 

 fish at Oakridge and the time we released the last part of the shipment 

 in Connolly lake. During all this time we lost less than fifty of the finger- 

 ling trout. The distance traveled was over fifty-five miles, not including 

 the side trips in reaching the outlying lakes. 



The number of lakes stocked in 1912 was eighty-three, and the number 

 this year was thirty-three. The places planted this year were harder to 

 reach, hence the smaller number. It is estimated that there are in the 

 Cascade mountains in Oregon upwards of three hundred lakes suitable for 

 trout culture. This does not include shallow lakes, ponds, or otherwise 

 undesirable lakes. One hundred and sixteen were stocked in 1912-1913. 

 Many others already had fish in them, and others which are south of Waldo 

 lake have been stocked during the past summer. 



Certain people have been skeptical about the stocking of mountain 

 lakes. The lakes planted in 1912 and revisited in 1913 prove that the 

 work has been a marked success. Reports have come in, to the effect 

 that the fish in Olalla lake are a foot long. Lake Margery and Santiam 



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