June, 1921 
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across a meadow, struck the base of a 
steep wooded hill. Soon as I saw it I 
said to myself, “Here, if anywhere, is 
my big trout.” It looked goodl to me as 
it lay there in the deep shadow of over- 
hanging trees, its upper part furrowed 
by a long undulating current, while the 
lower portion was as calm as a mill 
pond, with huge boulders appearing 
here and there above the surface. 
As if justifying my good opinion of 
the pool, I was rewarded with a strike 
at the very first cast I made. This good 
omen, however, had a bad ending, as I 
missed the trout and lost my bait, and 
when I went to the bank after another 
minnow, my companion threw in his 
hook and — to my chagrin— caught the 
trout — a splendid one, fourteen inches 
long. Of course, no more than an hour 
b'efore I had established a precedent — 
though justified by the circumstances, I 
thought — for this unsportsmanlike act, 
and while I now chafed at the ill turn 
it had given me, I drew consolation 
from the fact that the trout just caught 
was small and that the big one — I felt 
sure there was a big one — was still 
there to be caught. But — although I 
fished the pool long and carefully and 
came back to it later in the day and 
went over it a second time — there was 
no response from any trout, big or lit- 
tle. And so there was nothing left for 
me to do but to pocket my disappoint- 
ment and with the perennial hope of 
a fisherman to wait for the next time. 
But the next time and even the next 
after that had the same result — not a 
strike. Still my faith in the pool held. 
O NE day in the latter part of May 
leaving my friend by the roadside 
to fish some of the very best 
waters in the stream, I struck off across 
the meadow to the pool of my great ex- 
pectations. I was so eager to reach it 
that I took but scant notice of a light 
rain that was falling, or of a flock of 
blackbirds making merry in some syca- 
mores along the banks of the stream, or 
of a red-eyed vireo tha,t was calling 
from the distant ridge toward which I 
was making my way. 
Arriving at the pool, I found it in 
such splendid condition from recent 
rains that it seemed that trout would 
just have to bite whether they wanted 
to or not. But after fishing the main 
current without a strike, the increased 
violence of the rain forced me to take 
shelter beneath a sycamore deeply 
rooted in the bank of the stream. 
Somewhat disappointed that my initial 
casting was barren of results, never- 
theless when the rain slackened I had a 
premonition of great things as I se- 
lected a fine minnow and went ib'ack to 
the pool ; this time throwing my hook in 
the turbulent water between the main 
current and the bank. It had floated 
down stream scarcely a dozen feet when 
with a slight swirl it disappeared and 
at the same time I felt a heavy tug at 
the line, ^nd when I struck a moment 
later the trout, — as I knew it to be, — 
without any wild dashes or desperate 
leaps, struck a steady pace down the 
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