CHAPTER XXVI.

Trouting in the Mountains--Gameness of the Mountain Trout--A Red Letter Day on the Bitter Root--Frontier Tackle and Orthodox Bait--How a Private Soldier Gets to the Front as an Angler--A Coot Interrupts the Sport, and a Rock Interrupts the Coot--Colonel Gibson takes a Nine-Pounder--A Native Fly Fisherman--Grand Sport on Big Spring Creek--How Captain Hathaway does the Honors--Where Grand Sport may be Found.