Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-07-05

~ landing thirty eight mQuntai
trout. That evening wr came in1
amp amid the chats rug 80 nif
: zen aad The approving s1iles # III
women That night when lhr cae
rem we're ia bed. Lightfoot enter
tanned US with woodcraft storieI
: ufis 'ill long after the Stars cana
NBi and The moon turned The -fil
- tte 1850 fWlpi siiNer
!ighifoot bad been Ia the west
.ince ~ and knew every angle 20
game geiiing aud he was a rare
soryieller. and under the magic Of
iic nlconlil lake and ihe glow ~
The campfire Under the shadowy
ipines. with LiglItfooi rec0unting his
adventures. forgot my patients
with typhoid in the valley 81 the
Snake. whom had left In care
Of q brother physician, and that
night I slept the sleep that is
found nowhere but inthe mountain
md Wa> awakened by Lightfooi yell
ing, 'All out for the Red Fish"
Grow and were ont IN very few
moments andWhile We were getting
breakfast we heard a ripping ane
,plashing sound in The stream a.
hove the lake and not over
forty yards from camp. Lightfoot
said that that sounded suspicious,
aad winked at me and told Grow
to 20 and see what it was that was
making that noise.At first ! did not (
catch on TO what he meant by wink (
ing al me, but did later. Grow 1
went down 10 the water, and after /
locking up and down the stream |
for a moment, he tore up tho bank /
the rate Of sixty miles an hour,
stopped abruptly. and after gazing
Ia moment into the water, he let
out a yell that woke the children,
and then shouted for US to come
there quick; and Sc went, work
ing the lead by several feet, and
when got there, Grow said, Man,
man, look there" and / looked and
beheld four or five hundred shining
red fish swimming and leapinglup-
stream.The women folks had heard
the comm0iion, and shouted TO US
TO know what we had gone crazy
about. Grow yelled, Nothing much;
only about million fish IN one
bunch. The ripping and slashing
we heard was the fish going over
a ripple in the creek. We hurried
back, and while Lightfoot and
got breakfast. Grow dashed several
arge hooks on the poles as the
sheep man had shown US, and in a
lew moments we wereafter the fish
Now this method of fishing might
rot be very sporlsmanlike to the
lngler. but ii was the only way 10 /
'atch red fish except with a net, {
md | doubt II any angler ever had Q
more fun than we did for the next "
wo hours. We stood on the bank :
anking them our for few NOM :,
nts, then plunged bodily into the
iater and went at them in earnest. b
ish were in the air all the time q
nd when they hit the ground V
omen and children would shove a.
nj scramble after them and put VI
lem in quincy sacks we carried =.
ong AZ the end OF two hours a.
e had three hundred andfour red
sh and one bull trout. We went 10 or
mp, and Grow said, the next time sc
went sishing,he was going where
ere were fish We ate what we
anted, and gave away few to VI
mpers who had just come, sailed wi
way the rest. and brought them en-
'ue with US so We could back up tn
me Of our fish yarns with The en-
ots u'
That night Lighifoot told us Of M,
ventures IN Texas, Utah, Idaho, mi
d theJackson hole country, which Tn
ID Grow aud / in rapt attention. tbs
Me be women lent a listening nm
:. The moon came up and flood
the .canyon with light, while
mountains and the dark forest =
ne outlined against the night sky. , VS.
low as the moonlight mirrored WI
lake. while above. the pines of
wed darkly in the shadow of stas
sleep came from its shadows SOU
mountains Far info tha nighi viii
talked then We went 10 bed. A Wne
I owl called In the pine above s.c,
was answered by a coyote lie
down tho lakeside The wind the
g a lullaby in she pines around, s5 (
held VA tili dawn came and vi
sed the shadows away. seco
ext day we took the women and i'S0'
drcn FOR raft ride TO the