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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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g up against a blue rock in the eddy.Hey, Hiram? Such keenness of sight seemed almost incredible,but I had witnessed numerous instances of it before,and I saw no reason to doubt their statement in thepresent instance. The training of the vision of theguides and river men is something absolutely wonderful.Many and many a time have I stood beside a salmonpool, and had my guide count the fish lying in thewater, sometimes a dozen at a time, when I positivelycould not see a hn. It is only in late years that Ihave learned how to look for a salmon beneath thesurface of the water. It is an accomplishment difficult to acquire, andhard to describe. In the first place, the uneducatedobserver looks for something whitish in the water, insearching for a salmon, whereas he should look for afish grayish in color and with a .bluish-green back; forthe salmon in its native element almost always showsthat color, unless it has been long in the river, andeven then it does not lose its bluish back entirely,
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28 With Fly-Rod and Cmnera. although it becomes much darker. Again he looks fora large fish, when if he searched for something nearwhat he would expect to be the dimensions of a good-sized trout, he would come nearer the mark. I can recall a number of instances of seeing what Isupposed to be either a large trout or a grilse, butwhich, on being killed, proved to be a good-sized sal-mon. It is to be remembered that the salmon in the poolis covered generally with more water than the observerdreams of; and I have often found a depth of fifteenfeet in a pool where I hardly expected three. Such adepth dwarfs the size of the fish to the eye, and it isonly by much practice that one learns to look throughthe water for the fish for which he is searching. Oh, yes, I saw the salmon a good bit of timebefore he took the fly, said Hiram, cutting up a freshfilling of tobacco for his pipe, and rubbing it fine be-tween his hands, and three more. Is that so? I exclaimed, Why didnt you speakat the time?

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