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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
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work in ascending theriver, and had found but small sport with the fly, forthere are but few good pools below the third, two ofthem only being considered of enough importance to benamed. We had found the water low and clear, andthe day was bright; but in spite of these drawbacks wehad made a score of fifteen or twenty nice sea troutand a grilse. Frere, my comrade on this occasion, was a sports-man in the best sense of the word, a student and loverof nature also, and a scholarly man besides. He had been with me before on more than oneouting, and was a most agreeable and altogether enjoy-able companion. We had found the river so low, thatin many places our canoe could not possibly be poledup the rapids, loaded as she was so heavily with us, ourstores, and our two canoemen or guides, and we hadwaded a good part of the day. Of course wading is expected by every fisherman,and in fact it would be a tame day indeed, if a goodpart of the time were not spent in two feet, more orless, of water.
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24 JVith Fly-Rod and Cmnera, But after the days work is done, and the wet clothesare doffed, and warm, dry ones put on for the night,what a feehno- of intense satisfaction and rest and uttercomfort one enjoys, as he stretches himself out on histhick bed of hemlock boughs, as we did after enjoyingour evening meal. It is my invariable rule on my fishing trips to havea warm, dry change of clothes, in which to pass thenight. No matter how much wading one does in thecold, almost icy cold water of the mountain stream, ifthe change of clothes is at hand, no discomfort followsthe exposure. And after the dry woolens are donned, how onesskin glows, and what a sense of satisfaction is felt asthe comrades repose before the camp fire, and whilewatching the blaze curl about the snapping logs, discussthe events of the day, and fight their battles oer again. It was under such conditions as I have describedthat we enjoyed our first nights outing. Before us, across the river, looming up against theheav

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