Show TROUT FISHING IN THE GUNNISON GUNNI- GUNNI 1 SON SON- Some Practical Suggestions to Seekers S After Good Angling S We take the follow following Ing extracts from an ar- ar tide by H. H G. G Isbell in Sports Afield It contains contains con con- valuable hints to thoss In search of good fishing To Eastern sportsmen who home come West to spend a few weeks hunting and fishing I would recommend Gunnison as an outfitting point There they can pick out a route that will be for them either as to time or expense They can secure horses for a trip up Taylor river or If their time is limited and they want a permanent camp while fishing fish fish- lug ing they can take a train to Jacks Jack's Cabin eighteen miles north of Gunnison and there 7 hire a ranchman to take them over the divide to Taylor river four miles distant There at the mouth of Spring creek is as fine a camping ground as one could Sheltered by towering mountains covered with verdure on the east side of the an abundance of fuel at hand you can draw your w water ater from a a. clear spring stream that has Its source in perpetual snow and whose water Is a fit drink for the gods The altitude at the mouth of Spring creek Is In the neighborhood of feet above sea level Even In summer the evenings are so cool are comfortable under two pairs of blankets On a trip there one need not lay In many provisions a mile below the mouth of Spring creek there Is a ranch where fresh eggs butter butter but but- ter ter and sweet bread can be bought at reasonable reasonable reason reason- able rates and with the fish one catches he can live like a king Taylor river Is fairly alive with good trout running in weight as high as lour four and one one- unit half pounds There are arC also a great many la In Spring creek but they are areno no so large The best time to camp on Taylor river Is In August Aug- Aug net there Is however hon good fishing Irons from July till November One will have greater success cue suc cess to cover lots of territory After being in camp long enough to know when the trout rise the i Iq to go up the st miles and fish down By so doing you avoid fishing the same territory too much In this article I only mention fly fishing as both for skill and sport it leads all others Among the other tributaries of the Gunnison Gunni- Gunni son that are the home of the trout I will mention East river the Quartz creek Lake Fork and Cebola creek There are immense numbers taken front from these streams every year and still they do not seem to diminish My eastern readers may draw the condo condo- conclusion Mon sion that the Gunnison and its tributaries are arc the only streams In Colorado that are arc the home of the trout but such is not the case Among the larger streams affording sport in that line are the Eagle San Juan and the Rio Gande at Wagon Wheel Gap L |