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sary 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 heretofore 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 success¬ 
fully 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 tribu¬ 
taries to Kings River in 1909. In 1910 Huckleberry Ellen and Spotted 
Faun lakes, in Tuolumne County, received 1,400 adult rainbow trout. 
Adult Loch Leven trout were placed in Rock Creek; Loch Leven fry 
in 18 cans distributed by pack trains in Pitman, Coyote, Red Mountain 
Bear, Shaver, and seven Dinkey lakes. 
Adult rainbow trout were taken and distributed in considerable num- 
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bers into South Fork of the San Joaquin above Jackass Falls and four 
other headwater tributaries of the same stream. Sixteen tributaries 
of the Kings River, including lakes and streams in Granite Basin, 
received liberal plants of adult fish. All are ideal trout waters, but 
heretofore barren of fish life. It is confidently believed that this vast 
region will in a few years become a fisherman’s paradise. 
Much credit is due to the officers and members of the Sierra Club, 
who, under the skillful directions of Secretary Wm. E. Colby, have at 
their own expense, but under the authorization of this Board, success¬ 
fully transplanted during the past two years more than 400 adult golden 
trout in the vicinity of Mount Whitney. 
In July and August, 1910, more than 1,800 large golden trout of the 
two varieties were taken with hook and line by our deputies and dis¬ 
tributed among 23 lakes and streams in which no fish have heretofore 
existed. In suitable places—meadow streams—seines were used to take 
the fish, but by far the larger number were taken with hook and line. 
Some idea of the arduous character of the work is shown by the plants 
made in Deadman’s Canyon, which occupied six days of pack-horse 
travel over a very rough country. The fish were true type, Salmo 
roosevelti, taken with seine at Whitney Meadows and planted with the 
remarkably low loss percentage of six fish out of 183, all adults. 
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