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Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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of the federal and state fish com-missions. It is to be hoped that by thismeans the beautiful brook trout, the love-liest and liveliest fish of all the finny world,may be preserved and spared to us for yeta little while. Its introduction to the puremountain streams of the Far West hasgiven it a new lease of life, and the timemay come when, outside of the game andfish preserves of wealthy clubs, it will beonly in its new home that it can be found.Back Log On long winter evenings the angler, sit- ting before his cheerful fire, may be medi-tating on the passing of the brook trout—that his angling record for the last seasonwas not so good as the year before, andthat next summer it may be still worse. Butsuch disheartening thoughts are quickly dis-pelled as his glance falls on the fly-bookand tackle box within his reach. His fly-book is eagerly overhauled and frayedsnells and leaders and rusty hooks dis-carded. Some well-worn flies that recallthe big trout that gave him sport galore in66
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The Trout the long summer days are, on secondthought, snugly and affectionately tuckedaway In a separate pocket of the book, tobe brought forth on occasion, to excite theenvy of some brother angler, while relatingwith minute detail the story of the partthey took In the capture of the big ones. Through the rings of smoke rising from Pipe Dreamshis brier-root he sees the stream ripplingand sparkling as It courses around the bend.And In fancy he Is wading and casting, andas eagerly expectant of a rise, with his feetencased In slippers, as when plodding alongIn clumsy wading boots. The pipe-dreamsof retrospection are as engrossing andenjoyable as those of anticipation to theappreciative angler. The pleasures thoughpassed are not forgotten. He even smiles as he remembers the slip- Pnde After apery and treacherous rock that caused his ^downfall, and the Involuntary bath thatfollowed, just as he hooked the biggest fishin the pool. He is even conscious of thechill that coursed up his spine as

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