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I have caught trout at their very noses 
and once landed a fine fish on a cast 
under the cow at a rise beyond. 
A little farther up stream the water 
was deeper and wider. Released from 
the grasp of some rapids it made a 
grand sweep of the bank in the shadow 
of the mountain side. It flowed in inky 
blackness save for the crests of silver 
foam. This was the place for large 
brown trout. At times they could be 
seen undisturbed by the current, or idly 
rising toward the fly which they did not 
take. While in the shallow of the ford 
at the time of the rise, a bungling cast 
made little difference, but here only the 
/most careful work did execution. The 

fly had to fall just so, and just there, 
it seemed. Here was much short rising, 
due perhaps to the awkward light, but 
,when a trout brook rose it was no small 
one. Here we raised the father of them 
all, the largest trout I have ever seen. 
| One morning I came upon two little 
‘pare- legged natives who had often 
investigated our camp, particularly its 
jlarder. They were staring into the 
shallow water with amazement and de- 
\¢lared they had just seen, that day, for 
‘the second time, a monster trout. They 
described it as being a yard long. I 
‘reminded them of certain mythical 
stories about pike from a lake some six 
miles above, which were said to have 
been caught in this stream, weighing as 
‘much as sixteen pounds. They were 
‘unconvinced and declared it surely was 
a trout. I had dismissed the matter 
from my mind into the realm of im- 
possible fish stories, when it was again 
/brought to my attention in the follow- 
ing manner: 

Y son, then a lad of about sixteen 
: years, whom I had initiated in 
ithe art of dry fly fishing, evidently with 
‘the desire to surpass his instructor, 
‘could not resist from repeating the cast 
one evening. I could no longer see the 
fly and was about to return to the tent. 
He was fishing with a fly rarely used 
‘in the “dry” pattern, a small Reuben 
Wood. He argued that one fly was as 
good as the other if only you cast it 
fine enough. My entreaties that he de- 
‘sist from his fruitless endeavor were in 
vain. They were only answered by an- 
jother cast. I stood there impatiently 
‘peering into the growing darkness, 
‘when suddenly I discerned a tail at 
Teast ten inches wide; there was a ter- 
“tific splash and all was quiet. The 
Reuben Wood had raised the monster 
trout. But hereby hangs another tale. 
Never take an automatic reel when 
after the big ones. I have one of the 
first reels made which I have used for 
more than twenty-five years. Since I 
have for some time confined myself to 
casting with a three ounce rod, I have 
discarded it. My son preferred it be- 
‘cause it balanced his longer rod nicely. 


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