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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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nce about. I had been casting for fully ten minutes, during whichI had successfully shaken off two or three small sea trout,and was just on the point of casting over to an eddyacross the pool, below a huge boulder that rose fromthe depths, when a large sea trout took my fly, and witha splash and a plunge, down he went to the bottom, andinto the eddy that I had been essaying to reach. Away spun the line, my reel shrieking to me discord-antly just then, my rod bending in a circle with my ef-forts to keep the trout from disturbing the salmon. But in vain! A large sea trout is a very strongfish and active withal, and I could not check mine evenwith the full strain of my rod. Suddenly, from the depthsof the pool where the trout was darting about, out spranga salmon, a goodly fish, leaping several feet into the air,and falling back with a tremendous splash. Another near by also sprang out, and the guides whohad joined me, and who supposed that the leaping fishwas fast to my hook, exclaimed:
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88 With Fly-Rod and Camera. Hes a lively fish, sure! Mind, Doctor, or youlllose him. Frere, who also came to my side, said, You areo-ivine him too much strain. Giving the Old Harry too much strain, I exclaimed,Ive only got a pesky trout on. Oh! thats no trout, said Hiram, flourishing thegaff, sure we saw him twiste ; twice), twas a saumonand a good one, too. Yes, but he is not hooked, confound him, I re-plied, reeling in the trout that was now about tired out. There he goes again! shouted William, but thistime they plainly saw that the salmon was leaping infright, and not with my tiy in his mouth. The truth was that the trout in swimming about,had run the casting line against two or three of thesalmon, which, doubtless fearing a net, or some other ofmans snares, leaped to avoid them. A salmon is as sus-picious and as shy as a crow, and the least disturbanceor noise or molestation will put it on the ^zcz vive. It is not at all uncommon for the casting line to strikea fish in the pool,

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