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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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of six and seven-pounders beingtaken on the fly, and a seven-pound sea trout will givea man his hands full. You are right, I replied, but, barring accidents, ifyour sea trout is hooked, you do not have any anxietyabout killing him, ultimately, no matter how big he maybe, for his mouth is very tough, and he has none of thearts and tricks of which the salmon is such a master. No, the sea trout is a bold fiorhter and a stroneone, said Hiram, but he is not tricky. What is your opinion concerning the identity of thesea trout, Doctor? asked Frere. A good many believeit is the brook or spotted trout with sea-going habits. Now, Frere, I confess you ask mxC a poser, I an-swered, sometimes I feel convinced that the sea trout isa distinct variety, and again I am almost certain it is ourold friend, S. fontinalis, in disguise. Scientists affirm thatthis is the case, but most of the experienced fishermen,those who have for years handled these fish, are as posi-tive that the fish are not identical.
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4iB With Fly-Rod and Cajnera. We guides dont think they are the same fish, ex-claimed Wilham. Not by a good deal, added Hiram, it is easy totell one from the other. Yes, said I, I have thought so, and think so now;it seems to me that in a thousand specimens of the twovarieties 1 could separate the individuals of one from theother, unerringly. And so could I, exclaimed both of the guides sim-ultaneously. You think you could, I continued, but you wouldbe puzzled sometimes. I have taken fish that I consid-ered to be sea trout which had been long in the river,almost as dark as the ordinary spotted brook or rivertrout; this, mind you, in pools away up the river, manymiles from the sea, yet in the same pools, and at thesame time, I have killed others which were as silvery asif they had just run up. Again I have taken undoubted bright-spotted andcolored brook trout in great numbers in a branch of ariver or logan, and among them there would not bea single silvery fish; but in the river itself

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