FISHING IN IDAHO 
Throughout the intermountain country trout 
streams are numerous and naturally good. The 
fishing in some of them, however, has been tempo- 
rarily destroyed owing to their waters being pol- 
luted by poisonous waste from mining camps, or to 
the depredations of railway construction gangs. As 
the railroads and the rivers in mountainous coun- 
tries often run side by side, it follows that the best 
fishing is obtained in remote and inaccessible 
streams. Here the inability to make use of the 
trout caught is a potent factor in their preservation, 
as the only thing to be done is to return the fish to 
their native element, and catching trout to let them 
go, robs the sport of half its incentive. In time, of 
course, the construction work being over, the rivers 
will be restocked, and as the contamination of 
streams by careless mining companies is no longer 
countenanced, the fishing will probably always be 
good. 
Laws have been enacted, and are being enforced, 
limiting the basket to so many pounds of fish per 
day, and as the sale of trout from public streams 
is forbidden in most places, this protects them 
greatly. Formerly only certain species of trout 
were caught in certain streams; in those, for in- 
stance, which flowed into the residual waters of 
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