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Sierra Club BuUeiin . 



TROUT PLANTING. 



The following correspondence gives evidence of the important work that 

 has recently been accomplished in the High Sierra in the planting of trout 

 in ashless lakes and streams. The Club took up this work several years 

 ago, realizing its value, and it is deeply indebted to the California Fish and 

 Game Commission for most effective co-operation. In a very few years the 

 regions planted will become a veritable "fisherman's paradise." Members 

 of the Club and all lovers of sport are urged to refrain for a period of 

 three years from fishing in the lakes and streams noted as having been 

 planted this past year. — The Editors. 



Transplanting Adult Trout in the Southern Sierras. 

 During the past two years special attention has been given to 

 stocking barren lakes and streams on both sides of the higher 

 Sierras in Inyo, Tulare, Kern, and Fresno counties with adult 

 fishes — golden, Kern River rainbow, and Loch Leven trout. The 

 two last-named varieties were taken from waters that had been 

 stocked some years before with fry raised at our Sisson Hatch- 

 ery and which had been transported as far inland as it could 

 be done with safety. The golden and Kern River trout were 

 taken from streams where they are abundant and placed in other 

 waters barren of fish life in the same general locality. 



The sum of $1,250.00 was appropriated for the work, which 

 enabled us to equip two pack trains with specially built cans, and 

 other necessary apparatus. Deputy E. H. Ober, assisted by 

 Sheriff Naylor of Inyo County, had charge of the work on the 

 eastern slope, and in the face of many difficulties successfully 

 transferred a large number of golden trout into waters hereto- 

 fore barren of fish life, but rich in fish food. 



District Deputy A. D. Ferguson of Fresno, assisted by Deputy 

 S. L. N. Ellis, directed the pack train work in 1909 and 1910 in 

 the Kern River, Kings, and Kaweah basins on the western slope. 

 Adult golden trout were captured in very satisfactory numbers 

 and successfully transported and planted into Crabtree Fork of 

 Big Kern, North Fork of Kaweah River, and Whitney Creek. 

 Adult rainbow trout were planted in four tributaries of Sugar 

 Loaf Creek and other tributaries to Kings River in 1909. In 

 1910 Huckleberry Ellen and Spotted Fawn lakes, in Tuolumne 

 County, received 1,400 adult rainbow trout. Adult Loch Leven 

 trout were placed in Rock Creek; Loch Leven fry in eighteen 

 cans distributed by pack trains in Pitman, Coyote, Red Mountain 

 Bear, Shaver, and seven Dinkey lakes. 



Adult rainbow trout were taken and distributed in consider- 

 able numbers into South Fork of the San Joaquin above Jackass 



