6 FISHES OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 



MADISON RIVER AND BRANCHES. 



Firehole River, Gibbon River below the Falls, Nez Perce Creek, Little 

 Firehole River, etc. Native blackspotted trout, whitefish, and gray- 

 ling are abundant, as are also Lock Leven and brown trouts. Eastern 

 brook trout and rainbow trout are numerous in Gibbon River. Mr. 

 Clark wrote : 



The junction of Yellowstone and Lamar Rivers is noted for fine fishing. If you find 

 the waters high, swift, and roily, you will probably try your flies in vain. Put on a 

 spinner or a little spoon and watch the fish rise to it, almost touch it, and then go away. 

 They are after live bait and wont touch anything else. The grasshoppers are abundant; 

 catch a few, bait your hook carefully, and let it float down with the current. A large 

 trout will rise to it, and if you are not very careful he will steal it from you. 



SHOSHONE LAKE AND CREEK; LEWIS LAKE., 



Lock Leven and lake trouts are abundant, and eastern brook trout 

 abound in Shoshone Creek. Mr. Clark wrote that the Shoshone and 

 Lewis Lakes region was probably the best fishing in the park: 



These two lakes and their outlet, Lewis River, are full of native trout and have been 

 stocked with Mackinaw and Lock Leven trout, which are increasing in size and num- 

 ber most successfully. These fish will not rise to the surface and take the fly as do the 

 regular native trout, and it is necessary to go down into the water for them . In the lakes 

 you can catch them by trolling, if you can find the particular cove where they happen 

 to be running. However, in spite of the uncertainty of the lake trolling, there is one 

 place where you can troll with assurance of success, and that is in the canal between 

 Shoshone and Lewis Lakes. This is a natural body of water with little or no current 

 and not very wide. In Lewis River just below Lewis Falls, in the deep pools where the 

 eddies are covered with foam, you are sure to find good fishing. 



Duck Lake (near Thumb of Yellowstone Lake}. Blackspotted trout 

 are abundant, but landlocked salmon planted in 1908 have not since 

 been observed 



MINOR WATERS. 



Pelican Creek. Stocked with blackspotted trout from the Yellow- 

 stone Lake hatchery. Mr. Clark says: 



One mile east of Yellowstone River outlet is Pelican Stream which rises in the cold 

 snows of the" mountains and empties its waters into the lake. Here you catch quanti- 

 ties of uncontaminated trout, large, beautiful, fat, and gamy, as free from worms as the 

 fresh cold waters they swim in are free from pollution. 



Clear Creek, Eleanor Lake, Middle, Crow, and Jones Creeks, and 

 Sylvan Lake. All of these are stocked with blackspotted trout from 

 the hatchery. 



Small lake near Sepulchre Mountain. Eastern brook trout were 

 planted in 1912, but the results are as yet unknown. 



Swan Lake, (connects with Glen Creek and upper Gardiner River}. 

 The planted eastern brook trout seem to have left the lake for the 

 small streams, as they have never been found in the lake. 



