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-52- 11. DISTRIBUTION OF OTHER SPECIES G_ ILA RO® WERE FOUND IN MANY OF THE WARMER STREAMS IN THE. STUDY AREA. DIS- TRIBUTION WAS USUALLY SPOTTY WITH CONCENTRATIONS OF THE SPEC;Z3 FOUND IN SOME POOLS, WHILE BEING ABSENT IN OTHER POOLS A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY. FOR''THIS REASON, A MAP ON DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SPECIES WAS NOT PRACTICALo .RNYNt NTHYS NUB1 US WERE FOUND IN MOST OF THE STREAMS INHABITED BY TROUT IN THE STUDY AREA.. FIGURE 37 THEIR NUMBERS VARIED WITH STREAMS AND THEY SEEMED TO BE WELL ADAPTED TO VARIOUS TYPES OF NA84TATo THIS SPECIES 18 TAKEN FOR BAIT FROM SEVERAL STREAM8. A®A CHRYSOGA8TER WERE GENERALLY FOUND IN THE WARMER WATERS OF THE GILA R#vER9 WHERE THEY ARE TAKEN, TO SOME EXTENT, FOR USE AS BAIT MINNOWS. A VERY SMALL, NUMBER OF TTIM GA COs 81 WERE FOUND, USUALLY IN WARMER WATERS OF THE AREAo • (VOA,TTROP_ LUTE RENSI8 WERE FOUND IN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE NUMBERS IN WALL LAKE, MHVW THEY ARE TAKEN FOR BAIT MINNOWBo I HA ES P`LAS ARE ALSO FOUND IN CONSIDERABLE NUMBERS IN WALL LAKE, AND A FEW WERE TAKEN IN THE EAST FORK OF THE GILA RIVER. THIS SPECIES 13 PROBABLIP PREFERl - ABOVE ALL OTHERS IN THIS AREA FOR BAIT MINNOWS. A FEW CAMPOSTOMA ANO.. LUM'WERE TAKEN FROM, WALL LAKE DURING DRAINING OPERATIONS IN 1952. THEY WERE NOT FOUND IN, ANY OTHER WATERS IN THE STUDY AREA. LE_DA Ft1?LG. IDEA OCCURRED I* SEVERAL PLACES IN THE GILA- RIVER AND IN. WARM MATER TF"BU, TARIESS BUT WERE NEVER FOUND IN LARGE NUMBERS. THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED AN FMPORT"T BAIT MINNOW IN THIS AREA, THE GA?MBUS 1 A AFFF I NCI S 18 WIDELY DISTRIBUTED IN WARM WATERS THROUGHOUT THE G i LA DRAINAGE. THE SPECIES IS CONSIDERED OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE AS A BAIT MINNOW. ACCESSIBILITY AND FISHING PRESSURE MANY OF THE BEST FISHING. STREAMS IN THE GILA A b MIMBRfS RIVERS DRAINAGES ARE VERY INACCESSIBLE, AS NOTED ON THE ACCESSIBILITY MAP. FIGURE 49) A FEW OF THE STREAMS ON THE EDGE OF THE GILA WILDERNEgs AREA CAN BE RE-AGHED BY ROADS, BUT A LARGE PERCENTAGE MUST BE REACHED BY A PACK TRgP OF SEVERAL MILES, FROM THE ROADS, GOOD FOREST TRAILS LEAD TO MOST OF THE STREAMS IN THE AREA. SOME OF THE. STREAM BOTTOM TRA.1LS SHOWN ON THE ACCOMPANYING MAP CANNOT BE TRAVERSED SAFELY W1Tm A HORSES AND THE MOST PRACTICAL METHOD OF FISHING THEM I8,BY HIKING. A GOOD HARVEST OF TROUT FROM- THE INACCESSIBLE STREAMS IS 1 MPOSS ° sLE U14DER- PRESENT COND 1 T I ONS AND IT 13 UNLIKELY' THAT FISHING PRESSURE W 1 LL INCREASE AFFREG I ASLY ON THESE: STREAMS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. TO REACH MANY OF THE STREAMS FROM SILVER CITY9 THE NEB EST CENTER OF POPULATIONS REQUIRES A by TO 90 MILE TRIP BY AUTOMOBILE OVER MOUN,AIN- OUT ROADS; THEN A PACK TRIP OF 10 TO 15 MILES. THE TIME AND EXPENSE REQU&RED .AtRE3 UNDOUBTEDLY, THE FACTORS L I M I T I N G FISHING PRESSURE ON THE 1 NACCESS ; BLE STREAMS. BEAR CANYON RESERVOIR AND WALL LAKE ARE READILY ACCESSIBLE BY AUTOMGGiLr AMD, 00N- SEQUENTLY, FISHING PRESSURE IS H-IGH ON THESE LAKES.