With fly-rod and camera (1890) (14596401717)

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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404 With Fly-Rod and Camera. the blankets, and in a very few minutes the heavy breath-ing of my companions indicated that they were in theland of dreams. I quickly followed them, and was soonin imagination holding a poacher with one hand and play-ing a twenty-pound salmon with the other, a feat whichin my waking moments I should be loth to undertake.

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Oh CHAPTER VI, The Last Day in Camp. • Spawning Habits of the Salmon. • SalmonRuns. • The Sea Trout, its Gameness, its Identity. • The Win-ninish. • Lake Edward. • Lake St. John and its Fishing. • ThePeribonca and the Ashuapmouchouan Rivers. • The Land-Locked Salmon. I TOR a week our tent remained as headquarters; up^ the stream and down we visited the various poolswithin three or four miles, and we had glorious success,every pool yielding up its tribute to our prowess. Toughand rugged and strong we became, and as brown as gyp-sies. For ten days we had now lived in the woods, andthey were ten days of most intense enjoyment. The time was rapidly drawing near when we mustreturn aeain to the civilized world. There had fallenbut little rain, and the river was pretty low, so that theprospect for running down the stream in the canoe tothe mouth of the river was not of the best; and it wastherefore with no little satisfaction that on the morning

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