I02 GAME AND FISH HESOJiTS. 



ducks, rabbits, and brook trouL in all the small streams in abundance. Next to 

 Hope Valley, this aflFords the best shooting^ to be found in this State. 



The best fishing is found in the Truckee River, the lake of the same name, and 

 Pyramid Lake. The waters of the Truckee River extend from Lake Tahoe (the 

 head of the Truckee), to Pyramid Lake, the sink thereof. It is a great resort for 

 tourists, situated on the line between Nevada and California, in the Sierras. The 

 Truckee River flows from its north end, and is its only outlet of importance, but 

 the river is fed, all alone its course, by mountain streams of melting snow, till it 

 debouches in a basin, where is built Reno. The river leaves the basin, after an 

 easterly course through it by a caiion, and passing a little northerly, empties 

 into Pyramid Lake, a large body of water within the confines of the mountains, 

 but not quite so picturesque as Tahoe or Conner Lakes. The country around it 

 affords excellent grazing ranges. Pyramid Lake abounds with feathered game, 

 swan, geese, ducks, etc., the latter of several species, and is the winter quar- 

 ters of the trout. As soon as the river begins to rise in the spring, they start for 

 Tahoe in such vast schools that it is no trouble to get as many as one wishes by 

 simply going to the river. Fish are taken any where along the river, but usually 

 where it runs deepest and smoothest, whereas the brook trout of the east is taken 

 from foam of cascade and rapids, and by concealed anglers. Concealment is not 

 necessary here. The bait is thrown out as far as pole and line will cast it and let 

 float down with the current, properly leaded to cause it to sink near the bottom, 

 just to escape the rocks and sunken logs, and when all the line is out, is pulled up 

 and thrown again out and up stream. The trout takes it freely, and is easily 

 landed, not by jerking the fish out of the wet. but by playing him ashore. Some 

 fly hooks are used, but they do not seem to be a favorite bait. Spawn or min- 

 nows are preferred. Hooks are used from number four to larger. The grab 

 hooks are much larger. The Kirby hook is preferred to the Limerick- The lines 

 used are the ordinary linen lines or grass lines. Cane poles, or any that are 

 strong enough, and the longer the better, to get the bait cast out to the middle of 

 the stream, or as near as possible in the deepest channel of the river. Those who 

 go to the Truckee River trout-fishing will do well to be careful about their bait, 

 if they wish to have any success. The only bait with which they can succeed at 

 certain seasons of the year, is a worm that is found in the greasewood. This worm 

 cuts a ring around the main stalk of the greasewood, and is easily found by ob- 

 serving that the tops of the greasewood bushes are dead. The trout will bite at 

 these worms when they will touch no other kind of bait. The Piutes and a few 

 old settlers know how to find this peculiar bait, and are successful^ fishermen 

 when all others fail. The dead leaves on the tops of the greasewood bushes 

 show where the worms are, and all that is necessary to be done is to kick over 

 the bushes to find the bait, as the shrubs break off at the point where the worms 

 have ringed them. 



Wadsworth, Trout fishing in the Truckee River and in Pyramid Lake, eigh- 

 teen miles. Humboldt Lake, forty miles, near the line of the railroad, is a good 

 shooting ground for ducks, geese, swans, curlew, snipe, etc., though owing to the 

 absence of cover, the approach to the gaine is difficult. Mountain quail, sage 

 hens and grouse are found in the mountains. Eight miles west of Wadsworth, 

 with a few mountain sheep and black-tailed deer, jack rabbits abound in every 

 direction. Good trout fishing in Independence Lake. Reached via the Central 

 Pacific Railroad. 



Washoe City. Deer, bears, grouse, sage hens, mountain quail ; excellent fish- 

 ing in Ophir Creek, and Washoe and Marlette Lakes. Reached via Virginia and 

 Truckee Railway. Board $7 per week. Country very mountainous and rocky ; 

 the foot-hills covered with sage brush. 



Franktown. Geese, ducks, grouse, quail, snipe, rabbits, hares, a few deer. 

 Reached via the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Hotel $1. MountaLnous 

 country.' 



Verdi. Deer, rabbit, grouse, quail ; trout in the Truckee River. Reached 

 via the Central Pacific Railroad. Private accommodations $1 ; guides $3. A 

 mountain country. 



Wliite Pine County^ 



Hamilton. Deer, wLd ^eese, ducks, pinnated grouse, snipe. Good trou; 

 fishing. Board $3. Mountainous country. 



