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the daily catch of golden trout to ten in number per day. This 

 will enable tourists who pass through this region to satisfy their 

 curiosit3% and,, for the present at least, will not have any serious 

 effect on the number of the trout in the stream. This law should 

 apply to Golden Trout Creek, Rock Creek, and Whitney Creek, 

 as well as other streams where the Roosevelti variety of the 

 golden trout may be planted. I do not know that it will be nec- 

 essary to have so small a limit placed on the other varieties of 

 golden trout in the South Fork of the Kern and Cottonwood 

 Creek. I would also suggest that if such a law be passed, that 

 it will be most desirable to have a number of strong cloth signs 

 printed, setting forth in brief the law, and these should be 

 placed in conspicuous places by nailing to trees along the trail 

 and at stream crossings. This can easily be done and will 

 doubtless be attended to by some interested persons in Visaha. 

 Then no one will have the excuse that he is not correctly 

 informed as to the law. 



I would further suggest that the entire plateau or drainage 

 area of the streams which rise along the main crest of the Sierra 

 and flow to the west and into the Kern River Cafion be reserved 

 for the pure variet}'- of golden trout. (See page 30 of Dr. Ever- 

 mann's report on the golden trout.) All of these streams enter 

 the Kern River in steep caiions, up which the Kern River trout 

 cannot ascend. They are similar in their characteristics to 

 the Golden Trout Creek, in which the golden trout are native, 

 and they will thus present an extensive territory in which these 

 trout can be found and caught. There are also manj^ lakes 

 in some of these drainage basins, which will aid in making the 

 fishing as fine as could be wished. We found it a comparativel}'- 

 easy matter to catch these trout with hook and line, and with 

 two of these large cans, to make many successful plantings. 

 In many places it would be possible for the camper to catch a 

 dozen or twenty trout and carry them in a bucket of water only 

 a short distance and place them in adjoining streams and lakes, 

 which now have no fish. 



It will be eminently desirable that the trout which we planted 

 in Whitney Creek in Crabtree j\Ieadow should be afforded 

 further protection if possible. Every party which comes to 

 climb Mt. Whitney (and parties arrive almost every day during 

 the summer season) camps in this meadow, and these trout are 

 so easily caught that they may be taken before they have a chance 

 to propagate. I would suggest that some legislation be recom- 

 mended protecting these trout in Whitney Creek until they have 

 multiplied so that there will no longer be any danger of fishing 

 out the stream. As soon as trout are placed in the lakes at 



