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At night they come out from under logjams, and from the bottoms of deep holes, to feed in the shallows.

Shadows lengthened across a seldom-used track that stretched away across a wetland and disappeared in cedar and balsam.

The barely buzzing quiet gave way to the first tentative chorus of frogs.

Not far away, the river puzzled its way out of a cedar swamp.

The muck there is like quicksand in places, taking you down to your hips.

Its best to find good footing, and establish casting angles and safe wading areas before the light fades.

A great horned owl stood atop a broken white pine, its head rotating eerily to monitor my progress across soggy turf.

Walking upstream, I saw no apparent activity no rising insects, and no trout visible.

I stopped along a flat above a deep pool where I could see the bottom all the way across.

Not necessarily because I knew it would be a good spot, but because I had ample room to backcast without hitting a tree.

As twilight descended, I plucked a big White Wulff from my fly box and tied it on.

Not because it matched anything in particular, but because I knew I could see it in the dark.

My spine tingled.

Just as stars filled the sky, I heard the first greedy gulp upriver.

I could vaguely see big mayflies riding the flow like fairy schooners, safety in numbers only.

Another gulp. Another.

Soon the sound of feeding trout rose to a level of cacophony normally reserved for ocean scenes.

I heard a noisy rise and struck, sending the miss over my shoulder.

I stopped the fly over the water again and allowed it to fall.

If you cant get it back, you do the unthinkable and start sidestepping downstream.

Where was that boulder That log Falling in the dark, into a river, foot hooked under an -invisible tree, tethered to a wild animal, is something like the moment a hunter experiences when he realizes the tiger is stalking him.

Jon Kestner, a veteran nighttime guide, says hunting monsters with spots the size of quarters on the dark side of sunset can be dangerous.

Last year a guy in his late 60s launched at Upper Branch at night in August, he told me recently.

When clients tell me they went night fishing for browns on their own, its rare not to hear one of them got baptized, Kestner added.

A sedate, friendly stream can become a nightmare in the dark.