Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . reservoirs, lakes, or sloughsthroughout the State, where the temperature of the water rises to apoint that trout could not exist nor the small-mouth bass flourishtherein. Following the policy of the United States Fish Commission, which isnot to plant black bass in waters adapted to trout, we have devoted ourefforts in the past two years to stocking suitable waters of these lowerelevations. The work has extended from Modoc and Siskiyou countieson the north to San Bernardino and L
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . reservoirs, lakes, or sloughsthroughout the State, where the temperature of the water rises to apoint that trout could not exist nor the small-mouth bass flourishtherein. Following the policy of the United States Fish Commission, which isnot to plant black bass in waters adapted to trout, we have devoted ourefforts in the past two years to stocking suitable waters of these lowerelevations. The work has extended from Modoc and Siskiyou countieson the north to San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties on the have placed one shipment in the Colorado River at The Needles, andmade liberal assignments to the great interior valleys—the Sacramentoand San Joaquin. Many of these lowland lakes and reservoirs aboundin carp and catfish. These fish furnish an abundant food-supply forthe bass, which soon gain the ascendancj^ in point of numbers. The SaltSpring Valley reservoir, in Calaveras County, six years ago contained i REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FTSH COMMISSIONERS. 31 1:1^ a-. ... -?;;. 32 KErOUT OK STATE liOAUD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. nothing but carp imd catfish. To-day it is fairly alive with black fish for distribution during the summer of 1901 were all taken fromthis reservoir. Learning that the bass had increased in a small lake or reservoir,known as the Daly pond, about seven miles from Folsom, in El DoradoCounty, we decided to operate from that point for the distributionduring 1902, especially as it could be done more economically than fromany other waters that had been stocked by this Commission. In June,1897, there were placed in this small body of water 19 fish, averagingone pound in weight. During the past season two men in a boat havetaken as high as 150 fish, ranging from five to twelve inches in length,in a single day, with hook and line. We planted no fish less than fiveinches in length and made plants varying from 50 to 100 of fi
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