Forest and Stream 
|3 a Year, 10 Cts. a Copy, 
Six Months, $1.50. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1913. 
VOL. LXXX.—No. 1.1 
127 Franklin St., New York 
The Kingdom of Eternal Hills 
T here may be places in the United States 
vv'hcre the trout fishing is better than in this 
region, but I doubt it. Montana, recollect, 
has a reputation for her trout fishing that reaches 
a top notch figure, and is sometmng to conjure 
with. The fishing in the park is an example 
of this splendid feature; one of its most attrac¬ 
tive points. There are the rainbow trout in the 
streams and the lakes, also the mackinaw trout 
for those who want something on a larger scale. 
The mackinaw trout in this region attain a good 
size, but take your heavy line, your large reel 
clamped down on a firm reel-seat, and be supplied 
with a good, stiff-backed rod, then go out in your 
boat, using as a lure a silvery glittering spoon, and 
if you do not have luck, then surely there must be 
something wrong. A sharp tug at the end of 
the line and you set the hook; then follows the 
fight. And it will be a fight that will stir every 
corpuscle in your body. Back and forth, this 
way and that, you will play him, and finally, luck 
admitted, you will bring him into the boat, the 
luck of a perfect day. It is well known and felt 
by all anglers that the surroundings have a lot 
to do with the pleasure of the fishing. Poor sur¬ 
roundings cannot but make for an ill completed 
picture. The sensations naturally derived through 
an application of body, mind and muscle to this 
enjoyment are but one-half of it; the other half 
is what you see, and the lessons you gain through 
an intercourse with nature. A clear, blue sky 
above, with a few fleecy clouds floating across 
it, just enough to make for variety; the stately 
trees near at hand to sigh and give out that won¬ 
derful essence we all love to drink long and 
deeply of; the towering peaks on all sides— 
these and a thousand other features serve to 
make each day worthy of the name. It is nota¬ 
ble of these mountain regions where civilization 
has but entered with its modern improvements 
and attendencies that fly-fishing has but partially 
been adopted. 
An old outdoor man told me that one is able 
to catch trout just as well, and a darn site better 
with an old cord on the end of a broom-stick, 
with an angleworm or bug or butterfly for bait 
than with a fly-casting outfit and the factory- 
made flies the usual book will contain. But of 
course the nature of two sets of people are dif¬ 
ferent. To catch a trout by aid of a fly is a 
hundred times more appealing and sportsmanlike 
and poetic than dropping a hook with a worm 
on it down into some innocent basin and there¬ 
after pulling out one of its speckle-sided inhabi¬ 
tants. Yet the usual rule among the mountain 
By ROBERT PAGE LINCOLN 
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men is to catch them entirely for eating pur¬ 
poses; the enjoyment side of it is not recog¬ 
nized. 
Yet after all perhaps over half of the trout 
fishing in this country is done along little, seem¬ 
ingly insignificant streams or rills, hid in tangles 
of undergrowth where casting is absurd and un¬ 
thinkable; where one is forced to drop his fly 
or worm-baited hook down through some open¬ 
ing and take chances that way. Yet it makes 
not much difference which way you use in this 
region—the Glacier National Park—broom-stick 
or fly-casting, you will get them. Amateur or 
expert, you are treated alike, for the fish are not 
educated like some of those you find in Eastern 
stream, where every precaution must be used 
if success be courted, and where the expert alone 
seems to be favored. If you are going to the 
park and know little or next to nothing about 
fly-fishing, do not despair. I will give you here 
a few pointers which will aid you if you go here 
or anywhere else. You will get a fairly good 
bamboo trout rod for the small sum of 
five dollars. If you wish to go a little higher 
and have the money to spare, if you want some¬ 
thing to last and give you a great deal more 
service and enjoyment, then you will get the real 
thing for from ten to fifteen dollars. I have 
in my outfit a steel trouting rod which sells for 
six dollars and a half which I cannot help but 
recommend if you are a new one at the game, 
and I am sure you will be as entirely satisfied 
with it as I am. This rod is durable, it has the 
feel, and is by no manner of means too stiff. For 
this reason steel casting rods meant for trout 
have been more or less condemned. I wish to 
say that this is all more or less bosh. Of course 
if you want a rod that will do its own casting 
by pressing a button, all well and good, but if 
you want to work a little for the desired end, 
that is another thing, and you have rods to meet 
your demands. 
GOOD FOR A CREEL ANY DAY. 
