The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03

and rivers in the park has trout in it. Most
OF them are the black-spotted mountain
trout. with two or three bands of rain.
sSE 'o b", Ss h ke ss Is the
trout stream for the regular dwellers In
the park who have to stay in its Businesses
all the year round.
About three miles from Gardiner City
soMn a. Al IT; S MsyHr told TIE F., Sun man
to raise up a Jerome by creating the need
for one"-the Boiling River runs into the
Gardiner. The Gardiner comes down out
OF the mountains, ever refreshed by melting
snow. 1t is as cold as ice. :.
Its low water time Is the coolest day OF
winter, when its sources ar0 all frozen.
It's high water IL In tho middle OF July.
when the mountain tops are beginning to
emerge brown and bare from under their
white winter overcoats. II comes down
cold.
The Boiling River comes out Of the hill
side FIVE feet across and two feet deep and
tumbles. steaming,. into the cold water
surplus steam through its safety valve
hangs over the junction all day long.
From that point down to the junction
Of the Gardiner with the Yellowstone the
Gardiner never freezes and the trout bite
consent, this part Of the Gardiner is exempt
from all fishing restrictions. 1t seems never
to be fished out
There are as many fish there to-day as
there we're At this time last year Trout
from the protected Yellowstone replenish
the population as fast as it is worked out.
Out here the specified trout Of the East
are known as the Gardiner River trout.
They are seldom or never caught anywhere
else.
however, is the Bombara trout, which was
introduced here from Germany many years
ago and has fourished exceedingly. 1t Is
a hard-mouthed, greedy bitter, but lacks
spirit after It is once convinced that it Is
firmly hooked, as indeed does the noun
Only one in six turns and takes the fly
into deep water. After the first spatter
and defiance on the surface Of the water
most Of them come tArnely in toward the
clicking reel and arc lifted out to the shore
The Gardiner, because OF its peculiar
sources changes it's conditions every day.
When It is high and rolled, it is f1shed with
minnow bait. The minnows are caught
ils the water a. Tie outlet q Boiiins River.
Mr.. Wells, the commissary of the Trans
portation Company's hotels, has a regular
routine for using minnows. and as he Is the
champion fisherman Of the vicinity. it is
apparently routine that is worth follow
When the trout are biting hungrtly he
runs the hook through the III Of the bait.
But when the trout bite as bass bite in the
East, mounting the bait, Juggling at 1t with
out taking hold, he spits the bait, on the
hook as though 1t were worm. and strikes
viciously Al every slender nibble. The
great size OF the trout that will come to the
surface when hooked after a. tentative
baby nibble is revelation TO the tender
foot fisherman.
Above Gardiner about two miles are the
Turkey Pens. Nobody knows Why they
are called the Turkey Pens. They are
fats down near the level of the Yellow
stone where the deer and elk and antelope
feed In great numbers until the hills above
are cleared With snow.
Here the Yellowstone eddies into holes
that arc reputed to be a hundred feet deep.
There are traditions, backed up by the
skins Of the trout, that in these holes are
and ten pounds.
1t Is very seldom that more than one Of
them is caught in season. The success
full fisherman Is usually one who uses
daos-oalled white fish out hereIthree
nearly TO the bottom of the hole.
The best fishing found by the party so
far has been at Yankee Jln's canon, fifteen
miles below Cinnabar. Here the river
again. Here the black gnat and the brown
and gray hackle and the professor brought
rises In plenty to the skilfll caster.
II WAS seldom that trout weighing less
than half a pound was hooked. There
were places where 4 thin scum foated
up and down an eddy an eighth of a mile
long where the trout were rising continu
orsly through the scum at the gnats which
hung over Il. A ny cast among them was
shifted 70 often that the fisherman was
kept running up and down a long parapct
of roughly piled rocks to keep in range.
According to the ancient spirit Of the spot
Yankee jim was the same who said to Sec
rotary Loeb after slow inspection sY'act
like a gentleman, and that's enough fer me,
whether yer be ono or not. ] ain Z ashamed
to have met We dunn bit'--there 10 time
In mid-July when the salmon fly is coming