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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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ing in my line with the utmost expedition, soonhad but ten or fifteen yards out. Giving a lift with therod I essayed to move him, but for a few seconds hewould not stir. At length he rushed to the surface andjumped clear of the water several feet, repeating his leapthree times in a twinkling-. He then showed si^ns offatigue, and in a very short time he turned on his sideand I had him in my landing net. It was a very hand-some fish and the largest I had yet taken of that species,its weight being about four pounds. Adjusting my tackle, I returned to the upper pool,and in a very short time was playing another large fish.In a few minutes he seemed exhausted, and I reeled himin to within four feet of my net, when with a suddenand most unexpected rush he broke the leader near thepoint at which it was attached to the line and dartedacross the pool, a tiy in his mouth and another trailingon behind him. Almost immediately another fish seizedthe free liy, and the commotion they raised must have
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174 With Fly-Rod and Camera. been startling to their finny brothers around them. Dart-ing about in the water, and jumping sometimes severalfeet clear from it, they tried to rid their mouths of thehooks, but they found it impossible, and soon they dis-appeared down the stream, jumping and splashing in amost extraordinary manner. I soon rigged a new cast, but confined myself thenand thereafter to a single fly. I had great sport, for inless than an hour I had six beautiful fish, Enoug-h isas good as a feast. I gathered up my trophies and re-turned to camp. My friends had met with gratifying suc-cess, and we had an ample provision for stormy weatherif it should chance to come. Notwithstandino- the threat-ening signs the storm did not come, and the next daydawned bright and fair. After breakfast we packed up and started for theupper lakes. For a greater part of its area Grand Lakeis very deep, sometimes as much as one or two hundredfeet. In the solitude of these depths, behind huge rocksin

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