June, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
279 
Thus suddenly bereft of all my great 
expectations, as I reeled in my limp and 
sagging line I knew exactly how Napo- 
leon felt at Waterloo or Lee at Gettys- 
burg. Having a strong line and the 
trout well hooked, all the chances were 
in favor of my making a successful 
landing, and why then, I asked myself, 
did this accident happen at the very 
moment when, after so many years of 
waiting, I had at last hooked my big 
trout? Then suddenly it flashed across 
my mind that my friend had used the 
reel only a few days before and all my 
bad luck was due to the careless man- 
ner in which he had wound the line. 
While there was some consolation in 
knowing that the loss of the fish was 
not due to my own wretched inefficiency, 
and while if you have anything disa- 
greeable to say about a man, you can al- 
ways talk more effectively behind his 
back than to his face,— the reaction not 
being nearly so dangerous, — neverthe- 
less if he had b'een there in person he 
would have received a tongue-lashing 
that would have been a disgrace to the 
English language. And then he added 
insult to injury when later I joined him 
up stream and with a sore and bitter 
heart was telling him my tale of woe, 
as he, with a smile — a wicked smile it 
seemed to me — produced a twenty inch 
trout he had just caught. 
My defeat and mortification were now 
complete. 
A S it 'was now beyond the possibil- 
ity of hope that I would ever have 
a chance at another big trout, I 
ceased to specialize along that line, but 
contented myself by taking whatsoever 
luck brought me in the way of fish re- 
gardless of their size. But the very 
next year the unexpected happened. 
One afternoon I came back to a pool 
that I had fished earlier in the day 
without a strike. It was a favorite ipool 
of mine and of alluring possibilities, but 
from which I had never taken any 
other than* moderately sized trout. So 
uniformly bad had been my luck on 
that day that when I made my first cast 
in this pool that afternoon I did not so 
much as anticipate a strike, and there- 
fore was taken completely by surprise 
when a huge trout suddenly floated up 
like a shadow from the depths of the 
pool, snatched my minnow, and then dis- 
appeared. Its sudden appearance, to- 
gether with the shadowy outline I had 
of its enormous size, entirely unnerved 
me; but I had presence of mind enough 
to strike before it was too late, and then 
becoming more composed played it with 
all the skill I could command. A smooth 
sheet of water without an obstruction 
of any kind and a low grassy bank, 
met all the requirements of an ideal 
pool in which to play it. And so, with 
all the chances in my favor, after a 
gladiatorial fight for probably half an 
hour, I had the trout safely landed, and 
all the piscatorial longings of my soul 
were at last satisfied. 
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