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tributary to Lake Tahoe and other waters of El Dorado, Placer and 
Sierra counties from Tahoe and Tallae stations. In 1916, the streams 
ef Humboldt County received 132,000 black-spotted fry from the Fort 
Seward Hatchery. 
Mount Whitney Hatchery received a quarter of a million black- 
spotted eggs from Tallac, which were given a wide distribution in the 
streams of the high Sierra section of the San Joaquin Valley and Inyo 
County in the summer of 1917. 
During the spring of 1918, approximately 3,000,000 black-spotted 
eggs were taken at Tallac Hatchery, and after ‘‘eyeing,’’ these were 
distributed to the different hatcheries as in previous seasons. 
Steelhead Trout. 
The seasons of 1916 and 1917 were banner years for the production 
of steelhead trout, 5,213,000 and 6,699,000 fry being planted in the 
streams and lakes of the state during the biennial period. 
In an endeavor to ascertain the value of the steelhead trout in inland 
waters, it was decided in 1915 to experiment with them by stocking 
some land-locked barren lake in the high Sierras. After a careful 
investigation, Juniper Lake in Lassen County was selected. Juniper 
fuake is located on the Lassen-Plumas County line, southeast of Mount 
Lassen, on a high plateau, at an elevation of 6,000 feet. The lake is 
deep and beautiful with sloping shores and sandy beaches, and is 
nearly two miles long, by a mile and a quarter wide, with an abundance 
of aquatic insects, and being barren of all fish life, it offered a most 
excellent site for the experiment. On October 15, 1915, a shipment of 
25,000 steelhead trout fry was made from the Mount Shasta Hatchery 
in charge of a special messenger, who planted them in the lake on the 
following day. Despite the fact that the transportation of the fish was 
made under difficulties by railroad to Red Bluff, by auto truck from 
that point to Crescent Mills, and thence by pack train to the lake, the 
fish were planted in excellent condition. On July 21, 1916, eleven trout 
were caught from Juniper Lake, weighing about ten pounds. The 
largest of the fish weighed one and a quarter pounds. Since that date, 
considerable numbers of steelhead trout, averaging from two to four 
pounds, have been caught by anglers visiting the lake. It has been 
demonstrated, therefore, that the steelhead will thrive in the inland 
waters of the state, and the commission is desirous that they be planted 
in ever increasing numbers to supplement plants of rainbow, Eastern 
brook, Loch Leven and black-spotted trout fry. By the addition of 
steelhead trout to the planting of the other varieties, the streams and 
lakes of the mountain districts will receive an additional variety of 
food and game fish, equal as to fighting qualities to any fish that swims. 
