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14 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1921 SPLENDID FISHING FOUND IN OREGON TROUT STREAMS ijmiiimrimiinmiimiinmiimimmLmiiiimmiHiiiiiiiimiiimniiiitnmmmimimwH 'Artificial Hatching Supplements Natural Spawning Grounds 185 Lakes Which Formerly Boasted of No Finny Denizens Now Stocked with Game Trout to Untold Delight of Fishernfen 7, yj jm Iff By LarUe Saundera. iISHY. (lshy in the brook, papa catch him with a hook," says the ola nursery Jingle. Pop, If he Is wise enough to follow the Walton sport in Oregon, almost al ways Is lucky and there are enough Tishles" left to pass around to the neighbors. There is an underlying reason for fishermen's luck In this state and when the vacationist re turns from some mountain stream or lake with stories of his wonderful catch, a little credit may be due to his sltlH- as a caster, but in the main it belongs to the stats game com mission. Since 1907 the department has been planting trout and restocking favor ite haunts or introducing fish to bod ies of water where hitherto there had been none. At least 185 lakes for merly entirely devoid df such water life have been converted into favorite fishing retreats. To carry on this work men of stam ina are selected men who are not afraid to undergo real hardships, to fight snow storms and work In freez ing weather. There are perhaps 60 men engaged in this the year round, dividing their time between egg-taking stations and hatcheries and car rying on the planting. Oregon boasts two very wonderful natural spawning grounds for trout. Diamond lake and Elk lake, the first the home of the rainbow and the lat ter prdvlding all of the eastern brook for this section. There are about a dozen other places where eggs are being taken each season. The plan at present Is through establishing brood lakes to be able within three or fouryears to control the egg take and know definitely in advance its size. This will aid In the efficiency of the hatcheries and, according to State Game Warden Berghduff. wll enable his office t3 place them on a budget system. Diamond Eake Ideal. Efforts will be made to distribute the fish as far as possible by auto truck from the nearest lakes and do away with carrying them around on the state fish car. Thus each ha.tch ery superintendent will be familiar with his trout and they will be reared more nearly under the natural" con ditions they are to mature In. They will be acclimated from the time of their hatching. Diamond lake, ideally situated midst lush green slopes a,t the foot of Mount Thielson in Klamath county, this year furnished 2,226,000 rainbow eggs, and Seven Mile creek near Fort Klamath gave up 4,000,000. The eggs are taken at hese points and from Spencer creek, Woods river, Sprague river and Odell and Crescent lakes in March and April. Cutthroat come from the coast streams in the fall. The greatest number are taken on the Alsea aid at Squaw lake. Five years ago wonderful Diamond lake in the heights of southern Ore gon had no fish. Its outlet, the Ump qua river, was attractive to the' finny denisons only as far as Steamboat falls, which, because of their height, barred the upper portion of the stream to the fish. The possibilities of cultivating a spawning ground at Diamond lake became apparent, and 25,000 rainbow spaywn were planted there. Some ot these 3-year-old fish now weigh as high as 20 pounds. Their excellent growth here Is due to the gently sloping shores of the lake, which provide much fish food in the shallower waters, and to the nu merous small streams flowing in. In 1917 considerable consternation was felt because, after all the work of planting, no one had caught any of the trout In the lake. Commis sioner Stone put up a standing offer of $100 for anyone who could produce a' rainbow taken from Diamond lake. The prize remained unclaimed, and Carl D. Shoemaker, state game war den at the Uipe, himself Investigated and after riding around the body of water reported a fruitless journey. Region Fisherman's Paradls. The next' year no one needed to search long, for trout--the lake was teeming with big ones, and no longer did anyone fear that all the fish had gone down over the falls. The region Is a veritable fisher man's paradise, for the lake has stocked the whole I'mpqua river above the falls. its Inaccessibility has made it less attractive to the motorist and the waters have barely been fished. It is 100 miles from a railroad, and automobiles can go clear tiirougn only a. few months in the summer Formerly the year round it was nec essary to pack supplies uphill over 30 miles of trail. Even now eggs are taken out by means of snow shoes 'and bob sleds. To Its isolation may also be attrib uted the good fishing in Elk lake, 60 miles southwest of Bend, at the foot of the South Sister and Broken Top. This lake also was stocked five years ago,, but with eastern brook trout, and as a result 9,000.000 eggs were taken from It In the winter of 1919. Springs bubble up on the north shore over a quarter-mile stretch in the lake bed, and in October the fish gathejr there to spawn. As they come In they are seined and put in a pen, where they are robbed of their eggs, and these are taken in over the snow to an eyeing station a few. miles distant. ', Snow cornel before the eggs are taken and it Is necessary for the men to travel on snow shoes or skis, for the white blanket that covers this mountain country in midwinter is from eight to ten feet In depth, some times 20 feet. Specially designed cans resembling milk containers are used to take the fish to the hatchery cabin, adhere they'are held, in wire trays until February. The eggs are returned to the cans at the proper season and loaded on sleds, then pulled out to Laplne, 25 miles distant, where they can be reached by teams. The journey "but is no easy one and men making It have frequently been lost. Constant care must be given to prevent the cargo from freezing, for the temper ature is considerably below aero. Eastorn brook trout taken from Elk lake are now being placed In the numerous land-locked sand lakes along the coast as an experiment. The planting of these will be com pleted in 1921. Trout planting began in 1911 when R. E. Clanton was- first placed in charge of the work, but the artificial reproduction of salmon antedated that by good many years. As far back as 1877 the United States bureau of fisheries conducted hatchery opera tions on the Clackamas river. ' In 1895 the salmon pack had readied Its peak on the Columbia river, when 635,000 cases had been put up. Then it began to fall off rapldfy until In 1918 there were but 266.000 cases. Since that time the state fish com mission has borne the burden of bringing back the run, and In seven seasons has succeeded In maintaining It In all of the coast streams. This meant the establishment of a vast system of hatcheries, a system that In 1920 handled 22,000.000 salmon eggs. In addition to numerous egg taking stations there are 14 salmon hatcheries In the state, at the follow ing points: Bonneville, Clatskanle, Tillamook. Alsea, Coos, Coqullle. Umpqua, Willamette, Mackenzie, San tlam, Siuslaw, Nehalem and two un der government supervision on the Rogue river. 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