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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
GUT BAY, STREAM, AND LAKE. 
On the eastern side of Baranof Island, 31 miles north from Cape Ommaney, a 
long, narrow bay makes to the westward for a distance of 4 miles. It opens on 
Chatham Strait and at its entrance is less than half a cable in width. At the head of 
the bay, on the southwest side, is the mouth of a small redfish stream, a lake outlet, 
which was examined by a party in charge of Ensign Kemp if on August 6. 
The stream flows from the lake in a general northerly direction for about 2 
miles, in a channel marked by easy curves, over a bowlderous bottom, having in the 
lower reaches intervals of sand and gravel patches. At its mouth it broadens into a 
tidewater pool, largely bare at low water, and then widens to a narrow inlet which 
leads to Gut Bay. The stream is about 25 feet wide, G inches deep, and flows with a 
strong current, though there are no marked rapids or falls. The water is clear and 
Sketch of Got Bay, Lake, and Stream, Baranof Island, Alaska. 
had a temperature of 51° E. There are two small wooded islands in the upper reaches, 
one near the head and the other one-half mile below. One-fourth mile above the 
tidewater pool referred to at the mouth, the stream widens into a pool 200 feet in 
diameter, with an average depth of 6 inches. Below this pool, on the western bank, 
were all the materials for a barricade, but the stream when visited was free from 
obstructions that would prevent the ascent of salmon. The wooded valley through 
which the stream flows is strewn with large bowlders. The mountains rise abruptly 
from the eastern side, while on the western side a wooded and bushy flat, about one- 
fourth mile in width, intervenes between the stream and the mountains. 
