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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />13 <br />Squawfish distribution in the reservoir after the first few months <br />following stocking is unknown, because few fish were caught after two <br />months, either near shore by seining or electrofishing, or in deeper <br />waters by gill netting. Although the reservoir was extensively sampled <br />with gill nets, which proved to be the only sampling device which caught <br />any age II Squawfish in the reservoir, only four Squawfish total, in all <br />years, were caught in their second summer (age II) in the reservoir (see <br />Table 3). <br />The age II fish were all collected in nets that had been set in <br />water 4.5 to 6 m deep near cliffs or very steep areas of the shore. The <br />average depth of the reservoir being approximately 9 m, and the nets 3.7 <br />m deep, nearly 1/2 of the water column was sampled each time the nets were <br />' set along the bottom, or floated from the surface. Virtually all areas <br />and habitats were sampled in efforts to locate the squawfish. Although <br />' many other fish similar in size and body form to the age II squawfish were <br />caught in the gill nets, particularly roundtail chubs and sucker spp., no <br />' squawfish were collected more than 46 m from shore, either in the upper or <br />' lower 1/2 of the water column. <br />Escapement, dispersal, and decline in CPUE <br />' It takes very little time for fish stocked into the reservoir to <br />find their way over the dam. Anglers regularly catch rainbow trout below <br />' the dam only a few days after being stocked in the reservoir. Stocked <br />squawfish were collected below the dam shortly after release into the <br />' reservoir. One squawfish, from the August 6, 1990 plant, was captured in <br />' a drift net two days after being stocked. <br /> <br /> <br />