THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



v^H|/(|^ROM Lake Superior to the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 ^KTIT Mountains, there is a belt of territory about three 

 ^'i2)^\r hundred miles wide, extending through Minnesota 



oi^^ and Dacotah, and westward, which seems to have 

 ^-^ been segregated to the black bass {Gristes nigri- 

 cans). Few trout are caught between the Minnesota or St. 

 Peter's Eiver, and the northern boundary of the United 

 States ; but the country abounds in lakes which swarm with 

 bass. This glorious game-fish exists here in its full perfection 

 .of size, beauty and activity. It is taken with the troll or fly. 

 Within a radius of twenty-five miles around the new town 

 of Brainard, Minnesota, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, 

 are numerous lakes, easily accessible from Duluth, which 

 afford the very best of sport, though waters equally well 

 stocked are found all through the country. 



The Rocky Mountains are traversed everywhere by trout 

 streams ; and the overland tourist who is inclined to spend 

 the months of July and August among their peaks and 

 defiles and magnificent upland parks, can hardly cast his 

 line amiss in any of them. In the vicinity of Sherman, on 

 the line of the Union Pacific Railway, 550 miles west of 

 Omaha, the trout-fishing is equal to any on the road. Dale 

 Creek, a tributary of the Cache-a-la-Poudre River, and other 

 streams in the immediate neighborhood, abound in trout of 



