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... -3- the dam to Ticaboo Creek, about 20 ;11:2.C3 below t:le Hite Ferry Crc.3si!1G. At its high point, at the end of the ,;~.~dj see:::.ent, Lake Pov!ell c:xtc.nd'~d 2..Qcut 170 miles from the dam to a point ~4 miles a::Jove the Kite Ferry Crossing. STOCKING The initial fish stocking of Lake ?o~ell was made in the Spring of 1963 by the Utah Department of Fish and Ga:Tle. Su'Jsequent stocking \,;as carried out under a cooperative effort by the Utah Department of Fish and Game, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, a~d the U. S. Fish and ;~ildlife ,.. , wcrvlce, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. S',. ..l..... . ~L't-:i. thousa;ld fingerling kokanee salmon, 3}200,OOO fingerling rainbow trout, 60D,000 fingerling kamloop, and 1,000,000 fir..gerling cass \,ere planted in 1963. A total of 5,735,734 fish were pla:1ted in the reservoir during 1964. The plants were co:rlprised of large::-.::)Uth bass, rainboio/ trout, koka:1ep s'.),l,;;on, and crappie. Fish stocking ',Jas agai:1 a coo?erative effort by the age::cies mentioned above. Air drops were used to stock 2,000,000 approximately one a::d one-half to h'o ir.ch largemouth bass and 3, O:JO, 000 three inch fingerli::g rainom,' trout througl-.out the reservoir durinG April arld Nay (Table 1). The UtJ.h Department of Fish ar:d Game used trucks to stock an additional 691,379 rainbow trout between five and eight inctes in length in October a~d November, 1964. Approxinately half of these trout Here planted at the Hite Ferry site, and the rer.,ainder at HClh'..;eap. The Arizona G:l:r.C .:Lr,d Fis~'l Depar-'c:r.ent planted 9,355 cr:.:.ppie in AU!;Jst ar:.d 35, O(JO finGcrl L1g kol\.L~nC'c~ salmon in July at ',.Jah'vleap. 'The kc~a~1ee pla::t \o;a3 a shore plant ;:;ade during a period of high water te::.perature (800 F.) -;J12cause of Latc:1ery 11:71i to.ti,x;s at the time. Because of these conditicns the SclCCeSG of this plCln-:iq; is uClcertain.