82 FISH CULTURE IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA 
streams on the Aberdare mountains, especially the Morendat. 
On the 28th of that month, Mr. Guy Baker, Forest Verderer, 
wrote : * There are a quantity of small trout now in the 
upper waters of the Gura river, where they were originally 
hatched. They run over 1 lb. in weight. I have seen no 
young fish in the lower stream. I have not fished farther down 
stream than the bamboo and I have never seen Rainbow, they 
have probably gone further down still. The Gura stream had 
previously only been fished by me twice when I happened to 
cross it on the way to Naivasha. In September 1909 I noticed 
the trout were spawning.’ 
By the end of August Mr. Guy Baker had attained definite 
results, and moved some twenty trout to the Morendat river. 
He had found the upper waters of the Gura river well stocked 
with trout. But he also found that a few of the larger ones 
were eating many of the smaller ones. The fish were caught 
with a hook and transferred, with little loss, to canvas buckets, 
in which, taking precautions to keep the water cool, they were 
distributed to other rivers on the Aberdare mountains. By 
the end of August twenty -nine fish (varying in size from four 
to fourteen inches) were turned into the Morendat. The 
average size of these twenty-nine fish was about nine inches. 
These were all selected fish ; the very large ones and some that 
were injured in the catching were turned back into the Gura 
river. They were all caught with a hook and bait, usually a 
worm. It was remarked that they appeared to be of different 
species : though most of them seemed to be the ordinary brown 
trout, some were very light in colour with thickly placed black 
spots on the back, and with red spots much the same as in the 
ordinary brown trout. One, Mr. Baker remarked, resembled 
no trout he had ever seen. It had no red markings and was 
thickly covered with large black spots. Its fins were a little 
larger than those of the brown trout, particularly the fin just 
over the tail. He noted that the fish spawn towards the same 
time of the year as in England, but irregularly ; one may be ripe 
now, the next not for two months. Their food consists chiefly 
of crabs. In the early days of fish culture here it was the 
crabs that ate the ova : the trout have now turned the tables 
on the crabs ! Mr. Baker added there are a number of large 
