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On the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, among other varieties 

 of trout are found the Dolly Varden or Bull trout. These trout, like the 

 eastern brook, spawn during- the late fall and ea^rly winter. They attain 

 enormous weight, some speciments as much as thirty pounds. On account 

 of the cannibalistic traits, they have not been classed as game fish under 

 our laws, and there is no restriction as to the number or weight that may 

 be caught each day. All other varieties of trout and grayling are classed 

 as game fish and a limiit of twenty-five pounds per day is fixed by law. 



To specify the best trout fishing in the state of Montana would be 

 presumption and more than that — it would be largely a guess, there are 



so many steams and mountain lakes in which abound 

 these gamy specimens of the finny tribe. The Still- 

 water, Big Boulder of Sweetgrass County, the Upper 

 Yellowstone, the Gallatin and tributaries, the Madi- 

 son, Red Rock River and Lakes, The Big Hole, 

 Silver and Georgetown Lakes, Flint Creek, Rock 

 Creek, the Big Blackfoot River, Clark's Fork, the 

 Flathead, Stillwater river, of Flathead County, the 

 Big River, the Kootenai, the Yakti, the Swan and 

 the lakes of Lincoln and Flathead counties, all afiford this 

 most alluring pleasure, dear to the heart of every disciple 

 of the famous old Izaak. 



In short, no other state in the union affords the di- 

 versity and quantity of game and fish that today is to be 

 found in Montana. 



