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FISHES OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 



another is its delicacy of flavor, which is hardly surpassed by any 

 other fish. 



The brook trout may be taken by almost any method known to 

 anglers. In open streams fly fishing is the method par excellence. 

 In streams where overgrowth prevents fly casting, angleworms, grass- 

 hoppers, or almost any bait will be taken when the trout is feed- 

 ing. Everything will be disregarded when it is not feeding. The best 

 flies to use in any body of water must be learned by experience, but 

 the brown hackle is seldom a failure anywhere. Professor, queen of 

 the water, Montreal, coachman, and many others are usually quite 

 successful. Gauze-winged flies will sometime.-; succeed when others 

 fail. 



The best time to fish for this trout is in the morning and early 

 evening. It lurks in eddies and pools and at the foot of rapids, or 

 under overhanging banks, old stumps, or rocks. 



The plants of eastern brook trout by the Bureau of Fisheries have 

 been made in park waters as follows: 



1!)()7. Indian Creek 84,000 



1907, Willow ( Y>ek 03, 800 



1908, Indian Crock L'7. 0.00 



I 90S, S\v;ni Luke <). ()()() 



1908, Willow ("'reek 1>S. 000 



1909, Willow ( 'reek 20, 000 



1910, Glen Creek 5, 000 



1910, Indian Creek 15,000 



1910, Willow Creek L>0. 000 



1911, Lava Creek 5. 000 



1913, BlMi-khiil Creek.. . 22.500 



1889, Gardiner River ........... . !, 97f> 



1890, West Fork of Gardiner River 7, 875 

 1893, Shoshone Creek ............ 4, 500 



1901, Willow and Glen Creeks ..... 10, 000 



1902, Glen Creek ................ 9, 000 



1902, Willow Creek ............... 18, 000 



1902, Indian Creek ............... 1 1, 000 



1903, Tower Creek ................ 15, 000 



1905, Gibbon River above Vir- 



ginia Cascade .................. 17, 000 



1905, Willow Creek ............... 27.000 



1906, Willow Creek ............... 45. 000 



The brook trout now occurs in Obsidian, Indian, Panther, Winter, 

 Straight, Glen, and WillowCreeks; Grizzly Lake; upper Gardiner River, 

 Firehole River above Kepler Cascades and between its junction with 

 the Gibbon and the lower falls; Gibbon and Madison Rivers, Virginia 

 Meadows, streams along the road from Wylie Camp to Apollinaris 

 Spring, Shoshone Creek and Beaver Lake. The report of the super- 

 intendent of the park for 1897 calls attention to the fact that brook 

 trout were very numerous hi the Firehole River above Kepler Cas- 

 cades, evidently having been planted there through mistake for Loch 

 Leven trout, none of which had ever been observed. The same- 

 report stated that Shoshone Creek was literally alive with brook trout 

 up to 1J pounds in weight. 



10. LARGEMOTTTII BLACK BASS (Micro /tit /v/ 



There were two introductions of black bass in park waters. In 1 S03 

 Gibbon River received 250 and in 1896 ''lakes in Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park" are indefinitely mentioned as having received 500. 



