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From Page 2 on the river, hoping that it would clear, that fish would feed.

The depression of paddling over muddied fishing water, over the famous wilderness stretch of the Rappahannock from Kelly’s Ford to Mott’s Landing above Fredericksburg, set in. I could not enjoy slipping along the shaded, wooded banks, because I knew that the river was supposed to be green.

The stretches of riffles, when the water was clear, would look like a western trout stream and a bucktail streamer played broadside in the current would bring a hard hit from a smallmouth bass.

Other canoe paddlers would have despised us. But fly fishing is even more enjoyable than river crusing.

WE LOAFED Friday, climbed up a steep bank to eat lunch in a hot corn field. Once we heard a tractor making hay, and twice we saw farms briefly.

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