All Comforts of Home While Hooking Trout

1915

Rancher Invents Fishhouse, in Which Stove and Camp Chairs Help Some in Zero Weather

B. Maynard, a rancher in the mountains near Bozeman, Mont., who is a devotee to the art of fishing, has contrived a unique fishhouse by means of which he and his friends can enjoy all the comforts of home while pulling in the sportive trout in below zero weather.

A good sized tent was boarded up four feet high on the inside, a floor put in it and a trap opening about a yard square was cut in each of the four corners. A stove was set up in the center with the stovepipe running up thru the canvas and several camp chairs were added for furniture. The tenthouse was mounted on wooden runners and tied in a convenient place at the shore of Madison Lake.

On fishing days a horse is hitched to the house and it is taken to any part of the lake desired. Holes are chopped in the ice under the trap-doors, a good fire is built, then each member of the party chooses a corner, seats himself on a camp stool and drops in his line attached to a short length of pole. The trout can be plainly seen at the hook and are easily captured. A number of record catches have been made this winter. A ten-pound steelhead was one of the prizes recently hooked.

—Saturday Blade, Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915, p. 9.