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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • - 2 - kahki knickers and sweaters and some light warm clothes along to change to and sneakers (tennis shoes). We did rough it, sleeping some nights in the tent, but more often right out in the open on the bank of the creek, which lulled us to sleep. We put down a blanket on some pine or hemlock boughs and had two or three blankets to cover us. It was cold up there at night. Of course we had our rods and reels and many good flies, the Coachman, Royal Coachman, Black Gnat, Queen of the Waters, etc., such pretty flies I understand that nowadays a fly called the "Female Adams" is a great favorite with the trout fishermen. There were some fine fly fishermen in our party - my husband, Henry Grinnell, was an expert - we really never lacked for fish, often eating four or five trout each for supper. I caught one speckled trout -myself that measured sixteen inches, which is large for a speckled trout. The Rainbow are larger. We often caught as many as fifty or seventy-five fish a day, in all. Very often at night we would hear wild cats screaming around our camp, or near it but they never came up to our camp fire. Such big camp fires we had, logs burning. It was a pretty sight those camp fires on the bank of that lovely mountain stream. The sound of the water would send us to sleep at nights, after an all days fishing, a good supper and maybe four or five cups of good strong coffee. Drinking coffee did not keep any of us awake then. We often fished from 8:00 a. m. to 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. Just taking along a few biscuits and some cheese for lunch. As I think of it now, I wonder that I did not get killed - or hurt - wading that stream all day. Deep pools, rough places and slippery rocks.
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