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One summer during a seven weeks' tour in the Northern Wilderness, my only rod was a 7 1/2 foot Henshall. It came to hand with two bait-tips only; but I added a fly-tip and it made an excellent "general fishing rod." With it I could handle a large bass or pickerel; it was a capital bait-rod for brook trout; as fly-rod it has pleased me well enough. It is likely to go with me again.
On other occasions he had left Scotch, a fly-rod, sets of very expensive dry-flies, and dozens of pairs of silk socks. The female head of the orphanage accepted the gift with gratitude. "I don't suppose," said Fitzgerald morbidly, "that any of your kids will smoke this pipe, but I want to be rid of it and for somebody to know." He paused.
Therefore, as the fish could keep its mouth closed, it was ready for as fair a fight as though it had taken the fly, although little can be said in praise of foul-hooking a fish under any circumstances save those such as now existed, for these boys were in need of food. John had caught trout before, and had seen many a good fish handled on a fly-rod.
The hues of the red ploughed squares, seen through the trees, vary as the sun dries or the rain moistens the colour. Then, again, the ferns as the summer advances bring forward their green to the aid of the leaves and grass, so that red and green constantly strive together. There is a fly-rod in every house, almost every felt hat has gut and flies wound round it, and every one talks trout.
With my eyes shut, I can call up a vision of eight birch-bark canoes floating side by side on Moosehead Lake, on a fair June morning, fifteen years ago. They are anchored off Green Island, riding easily on the long, gentle waves. In the stern of each canoe there is a guide with a long-handled net; in the bow, an angler with a light fly-rod; in the middle, a smudge-kettle, smoking steadily.
Catching anything?" hailed the Scoutmaster, with genial interest, as one woodsman to another, for the figure was angling with a fly-rod. The latter shot a side long glance at the party from under a broad Panama hat, then jammed that, rather uncivilly, further down upon his head. "Bah!
The India-rubber Man moved quietly down stream, scarcely distinguishable from the gathering shadows by the riverside; he carried a light fly-rod, and once or twice he stopped, puffing the briar pipe between his teeth, to stare intently at the olive-hued water eddying past. "Coo-ee!" A faint call floated up the valley, clear and musical above the voices of the stream.
"Has it ever occurred to you, Steve," he asked, "that all these things you know about the woods might be valuable, some day, to to men who pay well for such knowledge?" Steve paid no apparent heed to the question until he had landed a trout which he had hooked a moment before. It was a heavy fish and Caleb had promised to teach him how to handle that fly-rod! Then he looked up.
It was certainly a pretty piece of sport, when Mr. Bangs would take his light, split-bamboo fly-rod and send fifty feet of line, straightening out its turns through the air, and dropping a tiny fly on the water as easily as though it had fallen there in actual flight. Even Harvey, and Tom and Bob, who had done some little fly fishing, found Mr.
When the two had topped the bank, and had approached me taking cover behind trees in a way which made me suspect Boy Scout training, mingled with bandit literature to a point where we could see each other's features plainly, I moved over to one side of my bank, and motioned them to approach. "Come alongside, brothers," said I, pushing my fly-rod to one side; "make fast and come aboard.
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