REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 35 
heretofore' inaccessible sections, we believe every effort should be put 
forth to meet it. This beautiful fish finds a congenial habitat in waters 
where neither the rainbow, cut-throat nor Loch Leven trout will remain. 
The cut-throat prefers the calrii waters of a lake altogether, while the 
rainbow is essentially a fish of the swift-running streams of large volume. 
Both the Eastern brook and Loch Leven possess a decided advantage 
over our native fishes with reference to their breeding habits. They 
mature one year earlier, and are known as ‘"fall spawners”; that is,, 
they seek the spawning beds the latter part of October and November. 
That being a time when the summer tourists and stockmen have left the 
mountains, they, can perform that function of nature unmolested, con¬ 
sequently we believe through natural propagation a larger percentage 
of eggs are fertilized and hatched than of the native fishes. During 
the past two years, in addition to renewing the plants made in previous 
years in sections where the fishing had been heavy, substantial plants 
have been put into barren waters beginning at a point as far south as 
the Giant Forest region in eastern Tulare County and extending north¬ 
ward to Siskiyou County. 
Through an exchange for the eggs of cut-throat trout, we were able 
to procure 5,000 of these fish ranging from four to eight inches in 
length, from Messrs. Morrill and Denton, at Verdi, Nevada, of which 
number about one half were sent to our Sisson Hatchery to cross with 
our pond fish, with the view of bringing together unrelated stock and 
overcoming the effects of interbreeding. The remainder were pi anted 
in Donner Lake, a magnificent body of water, but with no well defined 
inlet that could afford a spawning ground for cut-throat or rainbow 
trout, but which has weedy shoals and sandy beaches suitable for the 
Eastern brook. We hope to make this one of the banner lakes of the 
Sierras for these fishes. 
We have also been able to stock liberally suitable waters with both 
Eastern brook and Lock Leven trout in Inyo County, a region hereto¬ 
fore neglected through lack of transportation facilities. Our fish dis¬ 
tributing car has made two trips in the past two years to that section of 
our State, carrying in a liberal supply of rainbow, Eastern brook, Lock 
Leven trout, and also substantial plants of black bass. We have found 
Inyo County has waters specially adapted to all these varieties, besides 
it is rich in game, and will undoubtedly soon be known as a “Sports¬ 
man’s Paradise,” which title it already deserves. The people generally 
are most appreciative of our efforts and have shown unbounded hospi¬ 
tality to our representatives. Public sentiment being so strongly devel¬ 
oped in favor of fish and game preservation, we have sent in a liberal 
supply of pheasants and Hungarian partridges, that were distributed 
in different sections of the county and from which excellent reports 
have come, showing a substantial increase in the wild state, which indi- 
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