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The Drake

Queen River

DISCUSSING A TROUT STREAM with someone who shares an intimate knowledge of it creates a quick kinship.

“Took a brookie from beneath that puckerbush off the big log.”

“Above or below the island?”

“Below, near the birches.”

“In the back eddy?”

“The slack water just above it.”

I waded through frogwater up the right side of the island. The island, which has no name and is little more than a gravel bar sprouting a couple of sickly birches, lies in the stretch between the meadow and Garfield Road. This section is just over a mile long and takes three to four hours

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