BROWN WATERS 



the prof oundest blackness. Sometimes, 

 again, you will find a quality of dark 

 transparency through which the gleam 

 of a fish's side may be seen as he turns, 

 and sometimes an opacity which the eye 

 cannot at all penetrate. But dearest to 

 the fisherman's heart is the honest 

 brown water, natural and proper home 

 of the trout, turning the sands beneath 

 to gold, of patterns that ever change and 

 fleet when the sun strikes through the 

 ripple. 



The wisdom of many fishermen as to 

 weather has been garnered into a book ; 

 the sum of it, as one reverently admits, 

 is very wise indeed. Hearing, grow 

 wise also, so will you not be without 

 guidance in cold or heat, rain wind or 

 snow, when the flesh protests and the 

 spirit wavers. The weather for catching 

 fish is that weather, and no other, in 

 which fish are caught. 



It seemed against reason to desert the 

 fireside when a northerly gale was bitter 



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