FISHES OF THE YELLOWSTONE N^ATIONAL PARK. 7 



recently stocked with redthroat trout for the first time are various 

 lakes in the southwest section of the park. 



PRINCIPAL FISHING WATERS. 



The fishing season in the park does not ordinarily begin before 

 July, by which time, according to one of the angling writers here- 

 after cited, "the plethora of water has disappeared and the streams 

 flow swift, clear, and cold. At this season of the year trout fishing 

 is at its best." 



Information regarding the fishing in various localities may be 

 found in the annual reports of the superintendent of the park, 

 particularly the report for 1897, and in the annual circulars of in- 

 formation issued by the National Park Service. The following 

 Eublications pertaining wholly or partly to fishing in the park may 

 e consulted for detailed or special data: 



Fish in the National Park and tributaries of Snake River. By J. E. Curtis. Bul- 

 letin U. S. Fish Commission, vol. iv, for 1884, p. 33.'>-336. 



A reconnoissance of the streams and lakes of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., 

 in the interest of the United States P^ish Commission. By David Starr Jordan. 

 Bulletin U. S. Fish Commission, vol. ix, for 1899. p. 41-()3, with map and many 

 plates. 



A reconnoissance of the streams and lakes of western Montana and northwestern 

 Wyoming. By Barton W. Evermann. Bulletin U. S. t^sh Commission, vol. xi, 

 for 1891, p. 3-GO, with plates and maps. 



A woman's trout fishinoj in Yellowstone Park. By Mary Trowbridge Townsend. 

 Outing, vol. XXX, no. 2, May, 1897, p. 163-164. 



A list of the fishes of Montana, with notes on the game fishes. By .Tames A. Hen- 

 shall. Bulletin of the University of Montana, No. 34, Biological series no. 11. 1906. 



Wyoming summer fishing and the Yellowstone Park. Bv Ralph E. Clark. Out- 

 ing, vol. Lii, no. 4, July, 1908, p. 508-51]. 



Fly fishing in womlerland. By Klahow^-a (O. P. Barnes). 56 p. 1910. 



The Yellowstone National Park. Bv Iliram Martin Chittenden. Fishes, ]>. 210- 

 212. 1915. 



The following annotated list of park fishing waters is based partly 

 on information kindly furnished by Col. L. M. Brett, United ^States 

 Army, formerly acting superintendent of the park; partly on notes 

 taken from the works before cited; partly on observations by A. H. 

 Dinsmore, of the Bureau of Fisheries, in 1919 and 1920; and partly 

 on the senior author's observations in 1914 and 1919. 



YELLOWSTONE LAKE. 



Yellowstone Lake is one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. 

 It and some of the tributary creeks abound with the native or red- 

 throat trout. There appear to be no other game species in the lake. 

 Landlocked salmon planted in 1908 and 1909 have not been seen 

 since. The rainbow trout, planted at the same time in some of the 

 affluents, have shown no evidence of establisliment, exooptin<; on the 

 statement of Mr. Croley, a hotel fisherman for 12 years, to the effect 

 that he had seen only one fish other than the blackspotted trout. 

 This fi.sh 'looked diflerent and had a broad side band" and was 

 thought to be a rainbow. 



In 1919 the senior author found the water of Flat Mountain Arm, 

 though shullow, distinctly colder than in the lake, evidently owing 

 to the inflow of springs and the creek at its head. Near the head ot 



