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Identifier: rodguncan13cana (find matches)
Title: Rod and gun
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Canadian Forestry Association
Subjects: Fishing Hunting Outdoor life
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Que. (etc.) Rod and Gun Pub. Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e opportunity to posther further on the fine art of hooking thetrout when they rise. I offered her myown rod to cast in a promising new pool,but her Heart was true to Poll, andback she went to her own rod and herown pool. I was having a nice long-drawn-outargument with a wily old trout who hadhis lair near a tangled mass of roots,when a shout of triumph drew my atten-tion to Bersa. There she stood, amongthe marguerites and buttercups, her dearlittle sunburnt face radiant with honestpride and happiness, holding in her handsher first trout. It was the finest trout of the morningso far, too—a beauty—and best of allshe had got him from the pool at whichshe had remained so patiently—truly aproper acknowledgement by the fates ofjuvenile constancy. I shall never be able to decide which ofus two was the happier or the prouder atthat moment; I have landed big red troutin the Foot Hills of the Rockies, caughthuge grey trout in unnamed lakes of thenorthern wilderness, hard fighting bass- i
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Youthful Anglers Preparing for the Friy.iPhoto by R. R- Sallows. Gorterich, Out. LUXURIOUS TROUT FISHING ^li in Gloucester Pool, Georgian Bay andBear Lake, and have captured the ouan-aniche in the swirling eddies of the GrandDischarge of Lake St. John, but I nevertook a fish off a hook that I felt personal-ly as proud of as I did of that first troutof Bersas. Who is there accustomed to huntingor fishing for pleasure in the ruggedwilderness who has not often chargedhimself with selfishness, has not exper-ienced a keen sense of regret that thosehe loves best cannot participate with himin the enjoyment of his truly regal sportand pleasure. He who contents himselfwith the sport afforded by the troutstreams of the Coldwater district canshare his enjoyment with his wife andhis children, yes, and maybe with theaged father who baited his first hook. But to return to our tiny fishingstream. I had bareh got Bersas hook baitedagain and resumed my own rod when Igot one of the biggest surprises of

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