Yellowstone - Upper Lamar Sept 22, 1979 Yesterday was so good here that we decided to return. Results however were entirely different. We had as many or more rises than yesterday but very few of these resulted in hook-ups. The fish were lethargic and disinterested in eating. Woody netted 5, I got 3, none very big (13 to 15”). Lost several others that got us tangled in snags. The weather today seemed just like yesterday, but something surely was different. On the way out in the morning we saw a moose cow and calf, and not far beyond a fluffy gray coyote moving in deep grass. At the fishing area we saw several times during the day a little band of six antelope does and young, followed at 100 yds or so by a handsome buck. Sawnd flocking hawks. Near the Lamar picnic area where we cooked our dinner was a band of 35 or 40 cow bison with young. They were nowhere in evidence yesterday. Most exciting event of the day was our discovery of a big male mink, hunting along the creek bank for his dinner. We both watched him slithering around under a cut bank, trying to find a trout. We seen mink in the Lamar before, but much smaller than this fellow - presumably female. In mud along the stream area I saw round tracks in several places that I feel sure were cat - bobcat? Lynx?