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resumed fishing, but found none until nearly 

 sundown, when I put on the most unattrac- 

 tive fly and the least likely one in my book to 

 start a fish. 'The fact was, I had become 

 disgusted, after having tried at least twenty 

 flies, any one of which I thought would start 

 them ; but as soon as this one went over the 

 water I had been threshing so long, up came 

 a fellow, fairly rolling out of the water. I 

 gave him the fly for an instant, then drew it, 

 and he was fast. 



He was a lively fellow, and gave me great 

 sport, racing and jumping, but he was soon 

 in the boat a 9^-lb. fish. After this, we 

 moved to the head of the run, where the trout 

 were caught. At the second cast a fish came 

 which I knew was more than a trout, so, after 

 giving him a rest, I fished over him again, and 

 then he came as if meaning business, so, as 

 we were both that way inclined, we hitched 

 together, and there was a hustle. No single 

 cast this time. He was determined not to 

 come up the stream, and I was disposed to 

 make him. He was well at the head of the 

 pool when hooked, so Sol hauled the boat up 

 into deeper and less swift water, and I reeled 



