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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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the sport further than to gaff thefish, and I hold it is selfish in the employer to begrudgethe man a chance now and then to do a little of thefishing; that is, if the guide is an expert, which mostguides are. The sportsman who makes the guide doall the casting and hooking the fish for the employer toplay is a lazy man, and a poor angler. It is somethingto rise a salmon and hook him neatly and artistically,something that every one cannot do, and it is asking andexpecting a good deal from human nature to require theguide to relinquish the rod to another man to play thefish which he had not the patience or skill to hook, Hiram was an expert with the rod, and it affordedme great pleasure to see him cover the pool, placing hisfly as lightly as the fall of a feather wherever he wished.After a short time he ceased casting and said, as he re-moved the fly from my leader, and handed it to me,The water is growing darker every minute from theheavy rain there has been up the river, and in a deep
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320 IVith Fly-Rod and Camera. pool like this, when the water is colored, a larger andbrighter fly is the thing. I gave him his choice from my book, and selectingan elegant Popham he attached It to the casting line. Right here I want to say to every salmon fisherman,that in every twelve flies always have one Popham, andif you follow my advice you will vary the other elevenabout as follows: Three of the silver doctors (two sizes),two of the Jock Scott, one butcher, one Durham ranger,one royal coachman, two of the fairy (two colors), oneblack dose. This variety will meet the requirements ofall conditions of light and water, and they are among themost killinp flies to be had. Of course, a selection ofhackles and other trout flies is essential. A single dozenwill last only a short time, but the dozens taken on anouting should, in my opinion, contain about the varietyI have named. Hiram went to the head of the pool and began cast-ing, and keeping back from the water, with a long line,worked

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