Avec fly-rod et appareil photo . ing en ma ligne avec la plus grande expédition, mais soonhad dix ou quinze yards dehors. Donner un ascenseur avec therod je essayed de le déplacer, mais pendant quelques secondes pas hewould remuer. Il se précipite à la longueur à la surface de l'eau claire andjumped plusieurs pieds, répétant son leapthree fois en un clin-. Il a ensuite montré si offatigue^ns, et en très peu de temps il se tourna sur le J'avais côtéet lui dans mon filet de l'atterrissage. Il s'agissait d'une part très-certains poissons et le plus grand que j'avais encore pris de cette espèce,son poids est de 4 livres. Réglage de mon attirail, je suis retourné à l'étang supérieur,et je

• Contributeur: The Reading Room / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2AKFDT4
• Taille du fichier: 7,1 MB (677,6 KB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 1394 x 1792 px | 23,6 x 30,3 cm | 9,3 x 11,9 inches | 150dpi

Informations supplémentaires

Cette image appartient au domaine public, ce qui signifie que le droit d’auteur a expiré ou que le titulaire du droit d’auteur a renoncé à ses droits. Les frais facturés par Alamy couvrent l’accès à la copie haute résolution de l’image.

Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

With fly-rod and camera . ing in my line with the utmost expedition, soonhad but ten or fifteen yards out. Giving a lift with therod I essayed to move him, but for a few seconds hewould not stir. At length he rushed to the surface andjumped clear of the water several feet, repeating his leapthree times in a twinkling-. He then showed si^ns offatigue, and in a very short time he turned on his sideand I had him in my landing net. It was a very hand-some fish and the largest I had yet taken of that species, its weight being about four pounds. Adjusting my tackle, I returned to the upper pool, and in a very short time was playing another large fish.In a few minutes he seemed exhausted, and I reeled himin to within four feet of my net, when with a suddenand most unexpected rush he broke the leader near thepoint at which it was attached to the line and dartedacross the pool, a tiy in his mouth and another trailingon behind him. Almost immediately another fish seizedthe free liy, and the commotion they raised must have. 174 With Fly-Rod and Camera. been startling to their finny brothers around them. Dart-ing about in the water, and jumping sometimes severalfeet clear from it, they tried to rid their mouths of thehooks, but they found it impossible, and soon they dis-appeared down the stream, jumping and splashing in amost extraordinary manner. I soon rigged a new cast, but confined myself thenand thereafter to a single fly. I had great sport, for inless than an hour I had six beautiful fish, Enoug-h isas good as a feast. I gathered up my trophies and re-turned to camp. My friends had met with gratifying suc-cess, and we had an ample provision for stormy weatherif it should chance to come. Notwithstandino- the threat-ening signs the storm did not come, and the next daydawned bright and fair. After breakfast we packed up and started for theupper lakes. For a greater part of its area Grand Lakeis very deep, sometimes as much as one or two hundredfeet. In the solitude of these d

Recherche dans la banque de photos par tags

• bookauthorsa
• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• la chasse aux livres