Identifier: withflyrodcamera00samu (find matches)
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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could not be imagined, yet I took over a bushelof spotted trout from the pool, using brown or red hackles.I never saw fish so eager. At every cast a half dozenor more w^ould dart for the fly, and I was busy all thetime. Small trout, I suppose, said Frere; they are oftencrazy like that. Not so small, either, I answered; many of themwould Aveigh two pounds apiece and over. They were amagnificent lot, and they furnished a dinner for half thepeople in the settlement below at Wilsons Mills. That was good fishing, exclaimed Hiram, althoughwe have beaten it badly among sea trout, hey, William? We have, indeed, assented the other guide. That may be, said I, but not in a bad storm,boys, not in a heavy storm. No, sir, youre right there, replied Hiram, it waso-ood fishine for brook trout, altogether; it must havebeen a fine pool, that. Yes, it was a splendid one, I answered; the fallswere steep and high, so high in fact that the trout couldnot ascend them, and they gathered in the pool below in
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3o8 IVith Fly-Rod a)id Camera. great numbers. That was long ago, however; I doubtif a trout could be found there now. Why so? asked Frere. It seems incredible thata large river could be absolutely exhausted. The trout have been exterminated below the falls,not by fishermen, but by those fresh-water sharks, thepickerel, which have ascended the river from Lake Um-baeog- below. The trout stands no chance against pickerel, I amtold, said Frere. No, no chance whatever, I answered, the voracityof the pickerel is something astonishing. In the Schoo-dic Lakes these abominable vermin not only devour theyoung land-locks, but they are absolutely driving away thewild ducks that used to breed there in immense num-bers. * The pickerel should be outlawed. It must be a great pest, said Frere. Well, gentlemen, your breakfast is ready, said Wil-liam, pointing to the abundant viands that were servedupon our rude table. All right, I answered, we will surround it at once. * Geo. A. Boardman of Calais, Me.

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