An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . made no sign, and in despair of a finish the marquisand his secretary took skiff for the opposite shore, where a group of dusky figurescould be barely discerned, arriving just in time to see an uplifted rod swing heavilyback toward the wooded bank, and to catch a glimpse of a pallid gleam beside therivers bank and the boil of an upward surge. Then almost instantly followed asharp dip and a splash and a simultaneous sigh of relief. There was a flip-flap onthe grass, and the noblest quarry that
An angler's reminiscences; a record of sport, travel and adventure, with autobiography of the author . made no sign, and in despair of a finish the marquisand his secretary took skiff for the opposite shore, where a group of dusky figurescould be barely discerned, arriving just in time to see an uplifted rod swing heavilyback toward the wooded bank, and to catch a glimpse of a pallid gleam beside therivers bank and the boil of an upward surge. Then almost instantly followed asharp dip and a splash and a simultaneous sigh of relief. There was a flip-flap onthe grass, and the noblest quarry that was ever landed by royal skill lay gaspingand quivering in their midst. Bravely done ! they murmured all, with suppressed enthusiasm. Then the considerate marquis attended his exhausted and supperless wife toher apartments on the scow, and in due time that mighty salmon was laid out instate, with the hook and leader still hanging to its jaw, and so was sent home toEngland as a present to her majesty the queen, and an enviable trophy from herloving daughter and royal highness, the Princess FORT GEORGE ISLAND HOTEL,Two miles from Pilot Town, Mouth St. Johns River. CHAPTER XIV. TROUTING ON LONG ISLAND—OPENING OF THE SEASON. On Long Island the first day of March has long been regarded by the sport-ing fraternity as the opening day of the trouting season. The temperature iswarmer there than in the interior, and the snow-water runs out from the streamsnearly a month earlier. The fish are in good condition, active, constantly on thelookout, and supposed to be eager to retaste the remembered pleasures of lastyears fly-time. The piscatorial experts and professional fly fishers of New York seem toregard it as important that this season should be opened in due form as the bishopdoes that the church should be formally consecrated. They also deem it incumbentupon themselves to be present to wet the first line, just as fashionable young ladiesmust wear the first bonnet of the new
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