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Reports. 



REPORTS. 



Report Concerning Trout of Kern River 

 Region, California. 



San Francisco, August lo, 1908, 

 Honorable Board of California Fish Commissioners, Mer- 

 chants Exchange Building, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Gentlemen: On June 17, 1908, your Honorable Board granted 

 me a permit to take and transplant golden trout in the vicinity 

 of Mount Whitney. I beg to subm.it this, my report, concerning 

 such transplanting, and also venture to make general sugges- 

 tions, which I deem for the best interests of the fish in that 

 region. 



At our own expense, the Outing Party which visited the Kern 

 River and vicinity was provided with two of the ten-gallon Buhl 

 cans, with air holes in covers, to use in connection with the 

 transplanting. 



First Planting of Golden Trout. — On July 7 we were camped 

 at the head of Long Meadow on Golden Trout Creek, and with 

 the assistance of a dozen or more members of the party we 

 caught with hook and line, in a very few minutes, on a limited 

 stretch of the stream in Long Meadow, about no golden trout, 

 averaging from four to six inches in length. These were 

 divided between the two cans. I started out with two pack 

 horses and two packers to take this lot over rather a rough 

 route to a lake in Rocky Basin, at the head-waters of one of 

 the branches of Golden Trout Creek. It took about three hours 

 of continual traveling to reach the lake, and when the fish were 

 released only one was found to be dead, it having been too 

 severely hooked. All the others were in splendid condition, as 

 is attested by the fact that within five minutes after being placed 

 in the lake we saw them leaping for flies and feeding on the 

 innumerable water beetles and other insect life with which the 

 lake abounds, there having been no fish living in it previous to 

 our planting. 



Second Planting of Golden Trout. — The evening of July 15 

 I arrived at Rock Creek in company with Mr. J. Robinson, our 

 head packer, and his wife, who assisted us, having left Crabtree 

 Meadows, at the base of Mount Whitney, that afternoon. We 

 had with us the necessary pack outfit, intending to transplant 

 trout from the head of Golden Trout Creek, taking them back 



