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miles up stream. So at a bridge between 
Shandaken and Big Indian I was elected 
to make the start. They would meet me 
for lunch a mile down stream. So with the 
time-hallowed salutation and valedictory of 
all good fishermen the world over—“Good 
luck !”—we parted. 
F ROM the time of my first fishing trip 
I have never failed to have what 
must be a distant cousin to “buck 
fever,” when I approach a stream for my 
first fishing of the year. I find myself so 
eager to wet the line that my fingers seem 
all thumbs. I prick myself with the hook. 
I twist the line around the rod as I weave 
it through the guides. I drop my fly hook 
and strew the ground with the flies. Alto¬ 
gether, I act like the green and gawky 
youth in his first evening dress, as he walks 
into a ballroom where beautiful women and 
handsome men are at ease. 
But finally, after many false starts and 
much wasted motion, I slid down the bank 
and into the cold rushing water. The 
stream here is perceptibly smaller than at 
Phoenicia, but is still splendid fishing water. 
I tangled my first cast—I always do—but 
after a few of them I got myself in hand 
and performed creditably—with two flies, 
a Cahill for a tail fly and a Black Gnat 
for dropper. 
Commend me to a stream like this! 
It is rarely straight, twisting and turn¬ 
ing, not perhaps like that old Grecian river 
Maeander in the classics, but with many a 
charming bend and curve, here with banks 
cut through a blossomed meadow, and there j 
with walls of rock. Here a patch of pleas¬ 
ant, sweet-smelling woodland, there a brist¬ 
ly growth of alders and small underbrush. 
And the river itself: 
Pools? Plenty of them, deep enough for 
whales of trout, with shingly riffles in be¬ 
tween, beloved of feeding trout at certain 
hours of the day. . 
T HE time flew. I was doing my cast¬ 
ing right manfully—yet catching 
nothing. Disappointed? Of course 
—some, but having a splendid time all the 
same. I had a new and fascinating stream 
to study, the sunshine was bright, the birds 
were singing in harmony with the song of 
the waters, the air was mild, nature was 
smiling, and all the world was young and 
innocent, green and beautiful with May, 
blossomed with June. 
I changed flies several times—Stone, 
Alder, Queen, and Coachman—but couldn’t 
hit upon the lucky combination. I had seen 
but one trout rising, and he was evidently 
a small fish. He was advertising his pres¬ 
ence in a long shallow pool, where there 
was no cover and where he doubtless had 
been watching my steps for a half hour 
before I found him. But several casts into 
the rings made by his rises proved of no 
avail. 
Toward noon—I was not far from' the 
spot where we were to meet for lunch—I 
came upon a neat pool straddled by a 
bridge. Beyond, the river broke into a long 
stretch of riffles, which carried it down a 
descent of considerable pitch, and disap¬ 
peared in a miniature gorge below. The 
pool looked no better than many that I 
had fished that morning without success, 
and the riffles seemed positively unprom¬ 
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