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fool bass had once started the other way, he would 

 have got home, sure enough." It turned out that 

 the bass had taken the upper fly while the trout 

 was running at full speed and they both sped 

 onward side by side. I have captured many doubles 

 of bass, trout, and ouananiche, but never had a 

 mixed double. 



For pure, undiluted anger and fury watch a bass 

 as he repeatedly breaks from the water; how he 

 shoots up so unexpectedly in different parts of the 

 pool; where, we know not, till we see him quivering 

 in the air. He wastes no time in his eagerness to 

 shake off the offending restraint; for a second we 

 see him shaking his body in a cloud of spray, then, 

 with his big jaws snapping he goes down, only to 

 emerge again in another second or two, a hun- 

 dred feet away. 



If the mighty salmon had the same gameness 

 in proportion to his size, a forty-pound salmon 

 would be able to leap forty feet in the air, and 

 nothing but steel wire would be able to hold his 

 fearful rushes. A large salmon will sometimes 

 make a long graceful curved leap; then, I have 

 seen him shoot straight up, turn a somersault 

 and dive straight down to deep water; in fact 

 there is no movement he will not make in his lordly 



