Identifier: fishstoriesalleg00hold (find matches)
Title: Fish stories alleged and experienced, with a little history natural and unnatural
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915 Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931, joint author
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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er. A new split bamboo rod is bought. It weighsabout five ounces and is nine feet in length. New silk linesare added, as the very act of buying tackle is a legitimatefactor in the sport, which one would not miss, though youor I would not confess that sometimes anticipation has con-stituted the whole bag. The happy day arrives; we are off. A man in our carhas a rod strapped to his sticks; he, too, is going down theriver. We try the old bass story on him, but he has one tobeat it, about a bass caught at Gananoque, which is in Can-ada; so we still hold the record, the American record, forour part of the river. At last we stand on the beach; theold boatman is waiting; he has the cleanest boat, the fresh-est minnows and the jolliest smile of any man on earth,and as we have seen him come in a hundred times, neverwithout a bass, we know we are going to have a day ofsport. The St. Lawrence bass boat is a type peculiar to the river.It is of natural wood, copper-fastened, oiled until it shines.
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SHARK SEIZIXO THE CUTWATER OF A BOAT. See page 21 §. My Record Muskallunge 279 and so nicely modeled that it is a thing of beauty, graceful,buoyant, on the water. It is just long enough to hold threepersons; wide of beam, a good sea boat for the St. Law-rence, yet so light that one can easily haul it ashore, andwith such perfect lines that a woman can row it. In thestern is a cane-seat chair, which revolves if one wishes;opposite it another, your companion and you facing eachother. Your feet rest upon a rug of Brussels carpet, andthe boat is so immaculate that it would seem a mortal sin toland a fish in it. Behind the midship angler sits the boatman, who knowswhere all the bass are stationed on this happy river; who isto row you to all the famous rocks for thirty miles alongshore, entertain you, bait your hook, discuss all questionspertaining to the river, if desired, and at one oclock sharp,on some fair island, cook and serve a fish dinner fit for thegods. This very prodigy is behin

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