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In the same way you must learn the a, b, c of every handicraft, and art, and branch of knowledge, before you can hope to understand or accomplish the work. The a, b, c of fly-fishing is to handle your rod and line, and I must see you do that well, before I let you use a hook, with which you would otherwise only injure yourself or any one else in the boat."
He whipped the fly lightly within six inches of a little suction hole; a fish at once rose and struck. The others had been little fellows and easily handled. At the end of fifteen minutes the newcomer landed a fine two-pounder. "That must be fun," commented Thorpe. "I never happened to get in with fly-fishing. I'd like to try it sometime."
Then vanished that mysterious delight of pursuing an invisible object, which gives to hunting and fishing their unutterable and almost spiritual charm; which made Shakespeare a nightly poacher; Davy and Chantrey the patriarchs of fly-fishing; by which the twelve-foot rod is transfigured into an enchanter's wand, potent over the unseen wonders of the water-world, to 'call up spirits from the vasty deep, which will really 'come if you do call for them' at least if the conjuration be orthodox and they there.
Not till we came to fly-fishing were we really entered at the sport, and this initiation took place, as it chanced, beside the very stream where I was first shown a trout. It is a charming piece of water, amber-coloured and clear, flowing from the Morvern hills under the limes of an ancient avenue trees that have long survived the house to which, of old, the road must have led.
But perhaps they apprehended that it was merely a bridal party, and they were leaping all over the lake, flipping their tails in the sun, and scorning all the visible wiles. Fish, they seemed to say, are not so easily caught as men. There appeared to be a good deal of excitement in the boat that carried the artist and Miss Lamont. It was fly-fishing under extreme difficulties.
But four sociable tourists promptly appeared to act as spectators and critics. Fly-fishing usually strikes the German mind as an eccentricity which calls for remonstrance. Nor was the fortune of the day much better in the stream below. It was a long and wet wade for three fish too small to keep.
Do you want to go with me next Saturday? I saw four or five bully ones last week, and got three." On the appointed day we made the voyage, landed at the upper bridge, walked around by the woodpath to the railroad embankment, and began to worm our way down through the tangled wilderness. Fly-fishing, of course, was out of the question.
Amidst many tears and regrets, we have torn ourselves away from the cabin, where we could have spent another month or six weeks in perfect contentment; but a storm being predicted, and duck-shooting and fly-fishing being part of our Colorado programme, we accepted the loan of a house on a farm down in the valley, and are installed in it.
He set out, with some aid from an adept in fly-fishing and cookery, named Thomas Barker, to produce a little "discourse of fish and fishing" which should serve as a useful manual for quiet persons inclined to follow the contemplative man's recreation.
Supposing you belong to the fortunate half of people who know what they need, I should advise you to begin in just the same way. For instance, Walter, to whom I alluded above, wants to know about Fly-Fishing. This is the way his list looks. Rev., 69, 121; 37, 345. W. Scott, Redgauntlet. Edin. Rev., 78, 46, or 87; 93, 174, or 340. Dr. Davy's Researches, 1839. Am. Whig Rev., 6, 490.
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