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...below him. He took 1 ½ hours to draw abreast of us, never quitting a run or a pool until he had tested every inch of the surface with one or another of some dozen flies. In the end, though, he had five fine native trout in his creel...
...river, and consequently didn't care when the freight boat came or didn't come. Although unable to cultivate the barren land, they lived on moose, caribou, bear, beaver and small game which they hunted in winter. And when the river thawed in late May, they would fish for trout and salmon in its swollen waters. Today they keep themselves alive on beer, potatoes, bread and candy bars bought with bi-monthly welfare checks. In spite of a special concession from the Canadian government for unlimited hunting and fishing rights, fish have been scare this year on account...
...future, Ryther also plans to raise abalone as well as brine shrimp, which could be used to nourish rainbow trout...
...that tied them to the ground and their fellow citizens. Lincoln told stories. Theodore Roosevelt relished the outdoors. His cousin Franklin collected stamps and ship models. Truman devoured biographies. Perhaps the last President not consumed by power was Dwight Eisenhower, who found something special in painting, fishing a quiet trout stream or being on the golf course. Some doubt his legislative contributions, but we can now by contrast see how much his spirit meant to the nation...
...Jones supposes in all apparent innocence, undertake a hunting and fishing trip up the Hassayampa River. It is "a burly stream with its share of trout," which-what's this? -"rises in northern China, meanders through an Indian reservation in central Wisconsin, and empties finally into Croton Lake not a mile from where I live in southern New York State." The novel's epigraph, the reader notes with a sense of having been sandbagged, is a whimsy of the trout-fishing sage, Sparse Grey Hackle, who says that the water of the Hassayampa "renders those who drink...