The morning call., 1891-07-05

inches long" Underneath the cut the law
regarding the length OF the fish to be legally
taken was printed, with the further infor-
nation that the league would prosecute all
violations of the law and that complaints
be sent to the officers named.
a letter was received few days ago by a
gentleman of this city from a friend in
Oamaru. New Zealand, saying that an
angler living there had caught trout
weighing over twenty-one and half
pounds. His own bag for the season was
134 fishes, averaging five and half pounds,
and several of them weighing over ten
pounds. They were all taken in the Waitaki
River, which runs between the provinces of
Otago andsCarterbury, and with artificial
bait. 1t is only a very short time ago that
there was not q trout In any river IN New
Zealand and now the waters are nearly all
stocked.
The introduction of striped bass into this
State began in 1874. when $50 young fish,
from one to one and half inches. were
placed in the Sacramento River. In 1882
another shipment of the same species OF
fish, ranging from five to nine inches in
length, were brought from the Shrewsbury
River at Red Bank, \. j., and deposited in
Suisnn Bay at Army Point Although
anglers who have tried for these gamey fish
have failed to catch any, the net fishermen
have been fortunately successful. and of
late years bass weighing as high as twenty
pounds have been exposed for sale in the
markets. The passage of an ordinance
some time ago by the Board of Supervisors
prohibiting the catching of striped bass IN
der eight pounds WAS for short time OBJ
served by tisll-dealerS and fishermen. 1t is
now stated on good authority that in several
of the markets on Clay street bass can be
purchased that will not exceed two pounds
in weight.
The Eastern brock trout was first Intro
duced from New Hampshire in 1876 They
were Matched at the first California hatch
cry at Berkeley. Their Introduction and
Matching were continued for some years,
and 1t is said that several thousands of
young fry we're planted i'll the streams of
Alameda. Marin. San Maieo. Santa Clara,
Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, also in
the high Sierra Mountains. above the falls
Of the Yosemite Valley. on the headwaters
of the 1uba and North Fork of the Ameri-
can River, Prosser Creek Ia branch of the
Truckre) and in Cold Creek al Sisson q
small branch of the upper waters of the
Sacramento River. In all those short coast
streams, which become narrow and diminish
IN volume as the summer advancrS, they
have not reproduced, but in all the high
Sierra streams where they W. re planted
they eau now be found quite plentifully. A
number of them we're caught during the
summer In BlackwOod Creek, near the Ia
hoe.
About four years ago few were placed in
small lake on the mount ,in side back of
Mchlnnty pace on Lake lance. Last
year Mr.. Mckinney stated that a number
of these trout had been caught in the little
lake, one of them weighing three pounds.
lie said they were fierce fighters and had a
delicious favor. In the winter of 1889 and
1890 100000 Eastern brook trout eggs, Oh
tanned from Mr. Livingston Stone of Charles
town, \. H. were hatched at Ssson and
yielded $4,000 fry, which were planted in
small tributaries of the Upper McCloud, in
Deer Creek and in various tributaries of the
Klamath and Sacramento rivers.