. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . rapidly,) until trout fishing in the Eaquettewill cease to be the attractive amusement which ithas been these thirty years, and which it still is tothose who know how to fish. I have all my life heard of the monster fishcaught in the rivers of Maine, and although I haveangled in almost all the waters from Quebec toMinnesota, I have yet to experience the pleasureof landing a seven-pound trout. This pleasure I 264 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. hope to enjoy the coming season.* Meanwhile Ibid adieu to the Adirondacks until another Spring-tim
. Pleasures of angling with rod and reel for trout and salmon . rapidly,) until trout fishing in the Eaquettewill cease to be the attractive amusement which ithas been these thirty years, and which it still is tothose who know how to fish. I have all my life heard of the monster fishcaught in the rivers of Maine, and although I haveangled in almost all the waters from Quebec toMinnesota, I have yet to experience the pleasureof landing a seven-pound trout. This pleasure I 264 PLEASURES OF ANGLING. hope to enjoy the coming season.* Meanwhile Ibid adieu to the Adirondacks until another Spring-time shall return, when, if all is well, I shall again go a-fishing. * This hope was realized in June, 74, in Rangely lake. I was castingwith my lightest rod, when a large fish struck my fly, and after a twohours fight I landed a genuine Drook trout, which weighed exactlyseven pounds. I have a fine portrait of the fish, painted in oil ohbirch bark, by my friend Dr. Otis, of New York, who was of theparty. It is a beautiful picture, and I cherish it above 77-*
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