This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... in the density of the water, is apparently beneficial. SUMMER RESIDENTS IN THE RIVERS." General account.--In the upper portion of the Sacramento River there yet remained, after the winter and spring migration in 1898, a large number of young salmon. In the vicinity of Sims we found from 700 to 1,000 in the various ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... in the density of the water, is apparently beneficial. SUMMER RESIDENTS IN THE RIVERS." General account.--In the upper portion of the Sacramento River there yet remained, after the winter and spring migration in 1898, a large number of young salmon. In the vicinity of Sims we found from 700 to 1,000 in the various pools. We found them common in the McCloud at Baird in September, and in Fall River in August. These summer residents, as they may be called, are confined to the headwaters--the clear streams with rocky bottoms. They do not stay much of the time in the very swift current or riffles, but remain in the more quiet pools. Here they feed on aquatic insects and take the angler's fly the same as trout. Most of the data concerning the summer residents was obtained from investigations near Sims, in Hazel Creek, and the river below its mouth. Hazel Creek is a small mountain stream, with many pools and gravelly riffles, and is a favorite spawning stream both for salmon and trout. The two lower pools, which are about a quarter of a mile from the mouth, were seined several times during the summer and fall, and it was from this work that we learned much that wc know of the habits of the fry remaining in the streams during the summer. In the table below one of these pools is called the upper and the other the lower. The Sacramento River in the vicinity of Sims is about 40 or 50 feet wide, and during the summer has an average depth of about 3 feet. It is very swift except "These notes on the "summer residents " are given largely as a matter of record. While the conclusions drawn in some cases are scarcely warranted, yet the available data point toward them, and too many of the estimates closely approximate each other to be the result of mere ...
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