With fly-rod and camera (1890) (14596335017)

Identifier: withflyrodcamera00samu (find matches)

Title: With fly-rod and camera

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908

Subjects: Fishing Fishing

Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ducated trout of generous size, We cast for at least half an hour, and not a risedid we get, although we could see many large fish mov-ing about in the crystal depths. Surface fishing was evi-dently something that they knew all about. Our flieswere very attractive and all that, but they were old ac-quaintances, and the trout begged to be excused. Thesight of so many beauties, however, put me on my mettle. The river swept down over several boulders and aledge of slate stone, and pitched down sharply into thepool Avhich was below the rapids fifteen or twenty feetin depth. There was a strong current where the mainbody of the river swept across the pool, and I thoughtI saw a chance for outwitting the diffident ones. Put-ting on my leader a quite large gray hackle, called bymost anglers the gray mouse, I dropped it into the wa-ter, and letting it sink, permitted the current to carry itaway down almost to the foot of the pool. When theline tautened, at a length of about twenty-five yards, I

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a 270 With Fly-Rod and Camera. gave it a few gentle twitches and began to draw it to-ward me throuo^h the rushing waters. In a moments time the reel was singing merrily asa three-pounder seized the tiy, and such sport as he gaveme on my eight-ounce rod for a good five minutes beforehe came to the landing net! The gray mouse was arevelation to those sea trout, and I picked out enoughnice ones for supper in a very short time. When ourdriver gazed upon them his face wore a thoughtful ex-pression, but he made no comment. After we and our horses had lunched, we startedagain on our journey, and at about five oclock our desti-nation, the village of Northeast Marofaree, came in sisfht.And what a lovely view it was as we stopped on thebrow of the hill. The quiet little village with its trimfarm houses and its little church situated in the lovelyriver intervale, in the midst of well-tilled farms, and thewhole surrounded by mountains which stretched away inranges as far as the eye could reach. O

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