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continuing the practice of planting fry, except in barren waters where 

 the fry are safe from older fish. In many of the parks rearing ponds 

 are being built, in which the little trout can be raised to fingerlings. In 

 these ponds the trout are fed on beef liver. They grow rapidly, and 

 within a year after they are hatched are well able to fight for themselves. 



Everybody, of course, wants to "catch the limit." The inference al 

 ways is that the angler could have caught a great many more if it had 

 not been for the limit. All anglers like to infer that. Limits in the na 

 tional parks have varied to conform to the regulations in the different 

 states. Most of the state limits have been too generous. Twenty-five 

 fish are too many for one person, yet when the limit is twenty-five the 

 sporting fisherman feels that he must catch the limit to be a good sport. 

 In Yosemite the rangers tried the experiment of holding the limit at ten 

 fish, though the state limit is twenty-five. The limit of ten proved en 

 tirely satisfactory to most fishermen. They wanted to be able to say 

 they caught the limit. One way to increase the sport of fishing for a 

 limit of ten is to fish with barbless hooks, from which the trout may 

 escape if the line is not taut. Barbless hooks do not injure the fish, and 

 if the limit is passed they may be thrown back. 



The greatest fishing spot in any of the parks is the Fishing Bridge 

 of the Yellowstone River, just below the lake of the same name. This 

 is the outlet of the lake, and here the cutthroats gather in great numbers, 

 working up the stream to the lake. On the bridge crossing the river one 

 can count as many as fifty fishermen at a time, and every one of them 

 seems to be catching fish. Sagebrushers love to camp by this spot so 

 that they can fish early and fish late, without being far from camp, and 

 recently the rangers laid out a large campsite there. Walk through it 

 any evening and you will find trout frying in the pan over almost every 

 campfire. 



Fishing in the Yellowstone brings some unusual thrills, with the 

 great variety of streams and lakes, the beauty of swift-flowing waters 

 of the big rivers and small creeks, and the thought that some of the cut 

 throat may have crossed the continental divide through Two Ocean 

 Pass; but the greatest of all thrills is "the music of the lakes." Ever 

 since the Yellowstone was discovered, on Lake Yellowstone and on Sho- 

 shone Lake, strange sounds, sometimes like moans, again like the low 

 humming of a tune, and again like sweet music, have been reported by 

 anglers. Curiously, the sounds are heard when the air is still, the sky 

 clear, and the water smooth as glass, and rarely ever except in the 

 morning. 



These strange sounds were first described in the early 'seventies. In 

 1891 Professor Edwin Linton of Washington and Jefferson College, 



