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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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d to a cove above thepool, into which the canoe was guided, and we steppedout upon the rocks and prepared for casting. The water was very high, and it covered points whichwere, when we ascended the river, high and dry; but thepool was very wide, and consequently there were manyshoal places, and, casting across these to their furtheredges, we soon found there were a good many fish lyingin the yellow water; for Frere at his third cast hookeda small eight-pound salmon, and I, at almost the samemoment, struck a grilse. After a short fight both ourfish were saved, and in a very brief time five more grilsefell to our rods, three of them being taken by Frere. Inaddition to these we took a large number of fresh-run seatrout, the handsomest we had seen, and for an hour atleast had the liveliest sport we had found on the river.At length the fish ceased rising, and packing our catch inthe canoe we re-embarked, and sped on our way down tothe third pool, fishing all the intervening good water with
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462 JVith Fly-Rod and Camera. varying success, and sliding down the rapids with the zestand enjoyment of school boys out on a coasting frolic. Fishing would to me lose its principal attractions, itssweetest aroma — if such an expression may be used — ifit were divested of the accompaniments of such experi-ences and surroundings as I find on the streams and lakesof the wilderness, I cannot conceive of enjoyment being found by thefly-fisherman away from the forest, the glorious mountains,the roar of falls and rapids, the freedom of camp life,and the various other concomitants of the anglers out-ings. I agree with my good friend A. N. Cheney thatthere would be nothing attractive in it, if it were allof fishing to fish; if fish were only to be obtained inpools in a desert waste that never reflected leaf or twig;from walled-in reservoirs, where fish are fattened like abullock for the shambles; from sluggish, muddy streamswithin the hearing of great towns, redolent of odors thatare bred

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