THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 187 



LAKE TAHOE TROUT IN OREGON. 



The California Fish and Game Commission recently presented 

 the State of Oregon with 100,000 fry of the Lake Tahoe trout. These 

 were shipped from the hatchery at Sisson, California. About 20,000 

 of these were taken to the government station at Trail Creek on the 

 Rogue River to be held for liberation in Crater Lake. The remainder 

 01. the shipment was sent to the Central State Hatchery at Bonneville, 

 until they reach the fingerling stage, when they will be placed in 

 Wallowa Lake in the northeastern part of Oregon. 



Both of these Oregon lakes are similar in condition to the home 

 waters of this trout in California and the fish are certain to thrive 

 in their new home. It will be a new species for Oregon sportsmen to 

 angle for. 



Crater Lake, known throughout the world as a beauty spot, is 

 already well stocked with Black-spotted and Rainbow or Steelhead 

 trout. These fish were introduced tnere many years ago from the 

 government hatchery on Rogue River. They are now abundant enough 

 for the most inexperienced angler to catch. 



Wallowa Lake is a splendid body of water lying just above the 

 town of Joseph in Wallowa County. It is about five miles long and a 

 mile wide, and is one of the best known summer resorts in the state. 

 It contains as large a variety of fish as can be found in any other lake 

 in the West. It is the home of the Rainbow and the Dolly Varden. It 

 is perhaps best known as the home of the dwarf Redfish, Kennerly's 

 salmon, or a fish locally known as the "Yank." This is a fish ten or 

 twelve inches long and weighing half a pound, which lives in the lake 

 and runs up Wallowa River in great schools to spawn during the fall 

 season. In addition to these fish, during the past few years the 

 Fish and Game Commission has introduced Chinook salmon and Blue- 

 back into the Wallowa Lake. 



The Tahoe Lake trout spawns in the spring, much the same as the 

 Rainbow, entering the shallow water of streams for that purpose. It 

 grows to a weight of from three to six pounds and is a fish of both 

 food and game importance. Its habitat is western Nevada and the 

 eastern portion of California, especially the Truckee, Humboldt and 

 Carson Rivers, as well as many streams on the east slopes of the 

 Sierras. 



W. L. F. 



BOB-WHITE WHISTLE IS CHEERFUL. 



Mr. S. R. Oldaker, of Hermiston, Oregon, reports that the game 

 birds released by him near Hermiston had multiplied rapidly. He 

 recently saw three flocks of Valley quail, about sixty birds in all. He 

 says the Chinese pheasants are quite plentiful. Some of the old cocks 

 are so tame that they frequently get in a fight with the chickens. He 

 writes: "It sounds quite cheerful out on the farm to hear the whistle 

 of the Bob-White and the crow of the pheasant, and the landscape is 

 beautified by an occasional flock of these birds that are busy all day 

 long destroying grasshoppers and other noxious bugs and worms." 



Mr. Oldaker also reports that he saw two flocks of pinnated grouse 

 or prairie chickens, each of which contained about fifteen birds. These 

 birds had become very scarce in Umatilla County, but they now seem 

 to be on the increase. 



