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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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ould perform any featan Indian could. We had no sooner entered the riverat Red Bank than a heavy rain set In, and continuedwith slight intermissions for five or six days, swellingthe stream, making every rapid a wild torrent, and everyfall a Niagara. Luckily we took along a coil of smallrope, which we attached to the bow bar of our bark canoe,and one going ahead, the other guiding the canoe fromthe shore with a pole which was provided with a hookat the end, we waded and draes^ed, and tumbled, foot-sore and wet to the skin, for seven days before we reachedthe pool. How delio^hted we were to see this maofnificent basin!We camped by its shore, and for ten days had most ex-cellent sport; and afterward an exciting experience shoot-ing the rapids and falls on our way down. We killedmany salmon and grilse on that trip. What do you consider to be the age of the grilse?I asked. I have had many discussions with fishermen inrelation to this point. I can only guess as to that, replied Frere, they
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Isnt She a Bkauty ? 66 With Fly-Rod and Camera. are young salmon, but just how old, I am in doubt.Probably a four-pound grilse is three years of age, butauthorities differ on this point; some say two years, somethree, and others even four, but I doubt the latter. Thesmolt descends to the sea, probably when it is abouteighteen months to two years old,* but nothing furtherof its movements seems to be known,f until its returnto the river as a grilse, W. H. Herbert says: Smolts, as it now appears, in their second year, ofsix or seven inclies length, and about as many ounces weight, return peal or grilse,varying from two to eight pounds. That the identical smolt of six orseven ounces do return, .after two or three months absence in the sea, as grilse ofas many pounds weight, is proved beyond all dispute, smolts innunierable havingbeen taken, marked with numbered tickets of zinc attached to the rays of theirdorsal llns, set at liberty, and recaptured grilse, varying from two to eight pounds

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