THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



never forget the wonders of the streams reached by the Eio Grande 

 road — the Gunnison, the Black Canon, the little stream near 

 Manitou, and others seen from the summit of the Eocky Moun- 

 tains, where in August I tramped in the snow, thirteen thousand 

 feet in the air ; again from the Sierra Sangre de Christo Moun- 

 tains. 



Of the native trout of Colorado the yeUow-finned McDonald 

 trout reaches eleven pounds in Twin Lakes, while the ' red fin ' 

 attains a large size. STo state in America has finer trout 

 fishing than Colorado. Travel which way you will over the 

 Eocky Mountains, nearly every stream abounds in trout, and has 

 an environment that is enchanting to the lover of nature. The 

 famous fly streams are : the headwaters of Bear Eiver on the west 

 slope, the Platte, Eio Grande, Arkansas, Middle and South 

 Boulder, Iforth Eagle, White, Laramie, Michigan, Grand, 

 Aimas, St. Vrain, Big and Little Thompson, Gunnison, Eoaring 

 Fork, Frying Pan, Coudre, Genevre Creek, I^ederland reservoir, 

 Jim Creek, Lake Stopps, Tumblesons, Touch Lake, Lake 

 Clear, Lake Ivanhoe, Cottonwood Lake, Sweetwater Lake, 

 Glenwood Springs, Falls, Grizzly Creek, Tonichi and Taylor 

 rivers, and many more. 



The angling season in general is from the first of June until 

 the first of If ovember. On my first fishing trip to Colorado I found 

 the river perfectly dry ; there was not a suggestion of water where 

 the wide stream made its way into the open near Pike's Peak. 

 I was riding over the plain when suddenly I heard a roar, as of 

 scores of engines letting off steam. I turned my horse in that 

 direction and presently came to the bank, where was a river a 

 quarter of a mile wide, a fierce and swirling torrent which 

 might have been there centuries. I was a tenderfoot in Colorado 

 and wondered proportionately until I learned there had been a 

 terrific rain, a cloudburst forty miles away at the ' divide,' and 

 the river was the result. The moral was, do not camp in a dry 

 river bed in Colorado. 



The State appreciates its trout fishing, and with the Federal 

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