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them in bacon grease and serve them with a little bacon. Dutch-oven 

 biscuits with fish and coffee at night, and flapjacks with them in the 

 morning, are camp meals de luxe. 



Have you ever heard of a "ranger sandwich"? It is made of the 

 left-over supper biscuits, the left-over morning hot cakes, the left-over 

 bacon and fish from both meals, a little butter, and, if eggs were left 

 over, put them in too. This combination sounds terrible, but next day 

 about noon, if one is walking, fishing, or riding horseback in the fine 

 fresh air, a "ranger sandwich" will taste better than the best meal the 

 hotel can put up. Besides, it is economy in the use of food, an important 

 factor in the mountains. 



The lure of trout fishing isn't entirely in the catching of fish. It is 

 in the uncertainty of it, the sporting element, the gambling of time and 

 wits against the habits of the trout. Sometimes it would seem that an 

 glers are greater fish than the trout. They will bite on anything ! They 

 will trudge miles upon miles, with nary a grumble, because somebody 

 has told them of seeing whopping big trout in a certain remote lake. 

 That recalls a fishin' story. One time when a newspaper writer was 

 visiting Yellowstone he noticed a big club near the cabin occupied by a 

 ranger stationed at Slough Creek. 



"What's the club for?" asked the writer. 



"Aw, that's my fishin' club," explained the ranger. 



"Fishin' club?" 



"Yeah, fishin' club. I take it when I go fishin' down the stream. 

 There's a big trout in there that's grabbed every fly I had but one and 

 bit the leader in two. I take the fishin' club along to whang the big 

 devil over the head and drive him away so I can catch some of the 

 other fish." 



That story soon appeared in the papers, and during the rest of the 

 summer Sagebrushers kept dropping into the office to ask the location 

 of the stream with that big fish in it that had to be hit over the head 

 with a club. Some of them displayed 



the double, extra-heavy deep-sea tackle / \ 



they had brought along with which to / \ 



drag the "big devil" out of the water. 



At that, deep-sea tackle is hardly too 

 heavy for some of the big fish occasion 

 ally caught in the parks. In Glacier and 

 Yellowstone parks, lake or Mackinaw 

 trout twenty pounds in weight have been 

 caught from the deep waters, while in 

 Yosemite they occasionally catch Ger 

 man Browns that weigh almost that 



