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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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my guidecarrying- m) salmon and grilse, I returned to the hotel. Ha, ha! shouted Hiram, that man wanted theearth. Well, I continued, the next day it was the samestory, and the next. Nothing Avould satisf) him, and onthe evening of the third day, I told him that on thenext morning I was going to another river a few milesaway, and he would have this stream all to himself, andeven that did not satisfy him, for his last words when Ileft him on the following day were: Dont kill all the salmon in the river, for I ex-pect to fish it in a few days. He was a hoo- clean throuofh, exclaimed Hiram. He was, assented William. Yes, there is nothinof like ^oinuf fishinof with a manto Lfive one a true insitrht into his character, said FVere. Sure, responded Hiram, and it dont take a guidelone to find him out. Right you are, Hiram, said William. And the brothers were right; no one can size up afisherman as correctly and quickly as an old guide, andI confess 1 always make my first casts with that trepi-
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138 PVith Fly-Rod and Canicm. dation when I am out Avith a new man, knowing, as I do,that my every movement is scanned with the keenest scru-tiny, and ni)- every word weighed in a balance that isunerrinLr. What other fish do you find in the Nova Scotiawaters in addition to the sea trout and sahiion? askedFrere, after a short pause. About the same variety that we find in the NewBrunswick lakes and streams, I replied, there are almostinnumerable lakes in the Interior which are full of thespotted trout and other fish. There is capital land-locked salmon fishing in some of the lakes, notably FollyLake, thirty miles or so from Halifax, although the peoplethere call it grayling fishing; the grayling, however, isquite another fish. In many of the rivers there may betaken sea trout and the spotted trout, side by side, andeven with the same cast. I am told that there are huo-elake trout in some of the larger bodies of water, but Icannot say wnth certainty as to the truth of this, as Ihave neve

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