Construct Ditch to Fish Lake Allowing Fish to Reproduce
Due to seasons of unusual drought it was found impossible to maintain a flow of water in Meadow Creek, the outlet from Lac Le Jeune (Trout or Fish Lake). No other stream being available, the fish were unable to reproduce their kind. It was therefore decided to construct a ditch from a point below outlet of Walloper Lake into the main lake and to use this as a spawning ground in future.
Completed in Snow
Immediately the necessary water license could be secured, construction was commenced and the job completed in a foot of snow last fall.
The amount of available water being limited necessitated the ditch being kept fairly small and on as flat a grade as possible (one-tenth of one per cent was used). Running water has to be kept over the fertilized eggs until they hatch and the fry are grown big enough to be returned to the lake.
The ditch was 6000 feet in length mostly on a step side hill.
Flume 375 Feet
Some trouble was experienced with bad ground and it was necessary to flume about 375 feet of this at the outset.
It is too early to see the results of this work, but it is expected that lots of young fish of this year’s hatching will be seen in the lake next season.
It is reported that since the adult fish of the lake have been able to resume their natural habits, all those being caught now are of good color and in good condition.
(Reprint – Kamloops Sentinel – 15 June 1928 – p. 12 – Friday)
(Newspaper read at Thompson Rivers University or Kamloops Museum & Archives)
Submitted by Neil Burton
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