Rod and gun . fort were cast to the winds. We soondonned our garb, picked up our tackleand in the morning twilight strode downto the landing whence we set out to lookfor salmon. We had not paddled morethan a mile when the eastern horizon as-sumed a beautiful saffron color and themorning light rapidly pushed the dark-ness towards the land of the setting we were passing an excellent spot forred trout I said: place, got three vicious strikes and land-ed three salmon in a few minutes. ThenMr. Moyle exclaimed: I have never had such fishing as thissince I fished in Lake Shoneghan inBritish Co
Rod and gun . fort were cast to the winds. We soondonned our garb, picked up our tackleand in the morning twilight strode downto the landing whence we set out to lookfor salmon. We had not paddled morethan a mile when the eastern horizon as-sumed a beautiful saffron color and themorning light rapidly pushed the dark-ness towards the land of the setting we were passing an excellent spot forred trout I said: place, got three vicious strikes and land-ed three salmon in a few minutes. ThenMr. Moyle exclaimed: I have never had such fishing as thissince I fished in Lake Shoneghan inBritish Columbia. In a little over an hour we had landedeight trout, lost two of our Archer spin-ners and were two and a half miles fromcamp and hungry as hunters, as we hadonly eaten a biscuit and taken a drink oftea before starting. Nevertheless we de-termined to try a white phantom minnow,which we had been told was a greattrout killer, and reserve our last Archerfor our last days fishing, before leavingcamp for Good Sport With Salmon and Grouse. Let us try our Archer here, Mr. Moyle was only too willing so hesent the Archer spinning overboardamong the trout and in less time than Ican write it the reel was screeching andhe called out, I have him! You just keeo pad-dling. I acquiesced and soon saw the waterbreak about fifty feet from the stern ofour canoe and Mr. Moyle remarked: Here he comes, trout like. I managed the canoe till he effected alanding. We made three turns on this Tlie white phantom was tossed over-board and we circled round and roundon the same place we had taken trout afew minutes before in rapid successionwith the Archer. The only encourage-ment we received, however, was a faintnibble every now and then but not oneof them seized it voraciously as they haddone the Archer. We came to the con-clusion that the trout knew the realgoods when they came close to it and socould not be fooled with our glitteringphantom. As tfhe white phantom proved I070 ROD AND GUN IX CAN
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