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Hard Fighting Rainbow Trout
As a game fish there is no harder fighter than the rainbow. Almost invariably its first act when hooked is to leap high from the water; then follows a prolonged, fast-fought resistance sufficient to tax the skill of the most expert angler. The rainbow is a faster fighter than the brown trout, its quickness of movement resembling more the action of the native trout. The writer, however, has cause to remember his first rainbow for the reason that the fish did not leap—for good and sufficient reasons. Fishing at the confluence of two trout streams in very fast water where the currents of the two streams struggled for mastery, I hooked and after a running fight landed about a hundred yards downstream from that point a double consisting of a three-quarter pound rainbow and a native trout of one pound and a half. The native was taken on the end fly, a coachman, and the rainbow on the dropper, a Beaverkill. In this case the larger trout undoubtedly forced the fighting and held down the rainbow so that it was impossible for him to go into the air. Since then I have had numerous opportunities to admire the leaping and other sporting qualities of the rainbow.
Camp, Samuel Granger. The Fine Art of Fishing. New York: Outing Pub., 1911. Print.
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