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FOREST AND STREAM 
Sept. 20, 1913. 
Restocking of Trout Streams Under Way. 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
The fish car of the California Fish and 
Game Commission is now busily engaged in 
transporting fry from the various hatcheries 
operated by the State to streams in proper shape 
for fish planting. For a time it was feared that 
the hatch of fry would be light this season, but 
the late take of eggs was large, and the usual 
number of young trout will be liberated. Re¬ 
cently the fish car made a visit to the San Fran¬ 
cisco Bay section, and 200.000 fry were liberated 
under the direction of the California Anglers’ 
Association. A large number of anglers were 
on hand to assist in planting the fish, and mov¬ 
ing pictures were taken, showing the transpor¬ 
tation of the fry from the car to the streams 
where they were liberated, as well as the proper 
method of releasing the young fish. Early in 
the month about 200,000 trout fry were planted 
in Big Chico Creek, Butte Meadows Creek and 
the west branch of the Feather River, the work 
being done by sportsmen residing in the Chico 
section. A little later the fish car visited the 
Santa Clara, and heavy planting were made in 
streams there under the direction of Game War¬ 
den I L. Koppel. Many of the streams of the 
State are the lowest they have ever been since 
the white men came here, and fish planting is 
I cing limited to those whose flow of water 
pr: mises to continue through the season. The 
official water gauge in the Sacramento River at 
Sacramento shows that there is but three feet 
of water in that stream. 
California Striped Bass. 
Chicago, Ill., Aug. 23.— Editor Forest and 
S.ream: I am inclosing for your use a letter 
1 eceived from my friend, Frank P. Warner, of 
: tockton, Cal., describing the capture of a fish 
which appeals to me as an unusual performance. 
• r. Warner is recently from Muskogee, Okla., 
as also am I, where he was a successful angler 
for black bass. 
I believe I may feel a reflected glory from 
Franks latest feat because years ago I taught 
him the rudiments of bait-casting with modern, 
light tackle. p AUL h. Byrd. 
Siockton, Cal.. July 4.— My Dear Paul: 
\ our patriotic celebration of this date two years 
when you landed the big channel catfish on light 
tackle, and which made you the “catfish king” 
' f Oklahoma, has been made a toy pistol to my 
cannon, although with a California striped bass 
instead of a catfish as the medium. My heart 
has scarcely yet stilled nor my hand steadied 
from the resultant excitement of the terrific 
1 attle, but I hope I am sufficiently normal men¬ 
tally to tell of the happening in a manner that 
will conform to the Kodak pictures I am send¬ 
ing you. One of them may look like the ex- 
aggerated scenes depicted on post cards from 
fishing resorts, but I hasten to assure you that 
there is no mechanical fake in making the nega¬ 
tives. 
Leaving Stockton at. 6:30 o’clock of the 
morning in my uncle’s car, my father, my uncle, 
-Eg L. Warner, his wife and myself drove about 
twenty-seven miles to the Stanislaus River, ar¬ 
riving there some three hours later. As scratch 
man in the event, Lee Hahn, a young attorney 
of this city, rode his motor cycle and won the 
elimination because he acted as his own path¬ 
finder and didn’t follow the course. This nearly 
1 esulted in his failure to witness the big event 
of the day through our being lost from him, but 
that horrible electric alarm on his machine dis¬ 
covered him, as it would have done from the 
remotest spot in Southern California. 
Arrived, our rods were quickly assembled 
and the peaceful bosom of the Stanislaus was 
being disturbed at five different points, for I 
want you to know that Aunt Daisy is some fisher- 
woman ; also she on this occasion being the 
first to land a medium size “stripe.” Father soon 
duplicated the act, and Uncle Joe followed with 
two. Father soon duplicated the act, and Uncle 
Joe followed with two. I then pulled out two 
and father varied the monotony by capturing a 
big-mouth black. But out here we do not con¬ 
sider these performances of unusual merit, and 
a consultation resulted in a decision to adjourn 
to Striped Bass Lake, a distance of a mile and 
a half from where we were at a point on Con¬ 
nor s Ranch. During the mid-day dinner of 
fried chicken, raspberry pie and many other 
delicacies appropriate on picnic festivities, but 
not conducive to physical activities, Uncle Toe 
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