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I got out my rod & tried fishing for trout in the small stream - I soon found that by using bait (salmon roe & meat) I could only secure small fry and so I changed the hook for a "brown hackle" from my fly book & going up a short distance dropped it in & directly had hooked a fine trout weighing about a pound - He fought with great spirit but was soon lying on the pebbles at my feet and for a couple of hours I enjoyed the sport with varying success every few minutes getting an active fellow on that would bend the slender rod almost double & make the line fairly hiss through the water as he 

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shot back & forth in the stream and when he became exhausted a little manipulation of the rod would bring him with a run clear up on the pebbly border of the stream.
Fishing up to the foot of the cascade & then turned back and returned to the vessel with my spoil just as night shut down over the rugged hill tops.  As I came up to the harbor the Cutter Rush came in from her cruise to the westward and made fast to the buoy.

Sept. 26th
Storm of wind rising over the mts all the am - in the PM - the weather became milder - I spent the most of the day on board making extracts from the log.

Transcription Notes:
GG: "Brown Hackle" is a type of fly for fishing