The Practical Angler; Or The Art of Trouting FishingA. & C. Black, 1857 - Всего страниц: 195 |
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... Tackle suitable - Disadvan- tages of Shotting - Different kinds of Worms , and the way to prepare them - Necessity of Fishing up Stream with the Worm - Casting and Management of the Line - Proper time to strike - Season most suitable ...
... Tackle suitable - Disadvan- tages of Shotting - Different kinds of Worms , and the way to prepare them - Necessity of Fishing up Stream with the Worm - Casting and Management of the Line - Proper time to strike - Season most suitable ...
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... Tackle , and Bait suitable — Method of Trolling- Worm - fishing in Lochs Page 150 167 CHAPTER XI . APPLICATION . Salmon Roe - Reasons why it should not be used- General Advices applicable to all Seasons - Best means of filling a Basket ...
... Tackle , and Bait suitable — Method of Trolling- Worm - fishing in Lochs Page 150 167 CHAPTER XI . APPLICATION . Salmon Roe - Reasons why it should not be used- General Advices applicable to all Seasons - Best means of filling a Basket ...
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... tackle and flies which a modern angler would reject as totally useless . Look at the state of the case now . How widely different ! Every villager has a rod , and uses INCREASE OF ANGLERS . 21 it , with more effect 20 THE FRESH - WATER ...
... tackle and flies which a modern angler would reject as totally useless . Look at the state of the case now . How widely different ! Every villager has a rod , and uses INCREASE OF ANGLERS . 21 it , with more effect 20 THE FRESH - WATER ...
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... tackle of fifty years ago would be found so faulty now . Fifty years ago it was an easy thing to fill a basket with trout , not so now ; then there were ten trout for one there is now - the colour of the water favoured the angler , and ...
... tackle of fifty years ago would be found so faulty now . Fifty years ago it was an easy thing to fill a basket with trout , not so now ; then there were ten trout for one there is now - the colour of the water favoured the angler , and ...
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... tackle maker or druggist , and should be applied with a brush . Reels . The best reels are those made of brass , and with a plain wheel . Some anglers prefer the multi- plier , because it rolls up the line more quickly , and others the ...
... tackle maker or druggist , and should be applied with a brush . Reels . The best reels are those made of brass , and with a plain wheel . Some anglers prefer the multi- plier , because it rolls up the line more quickly , and others the ...
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Стр. 72 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
Стр. 122 - And out o' the knight's a brier. And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near ; And a' the warld might ken right weel They were twa lovers dear.
Стр. 148 - An interesting fragment had been obtained of an ancient historical ballad ; but the remainder, to the great disturbance of the editor and his coadjutor, was not to be recovered. Two days afterwards, while the editor was sitting with some company after dinner, a sound was heard at a distance like that of the whistling of a tempest through the torn rio-ging of the vessel which scuds before it.
Стр. 4 - Swift, that angling is always to be considered as "a stick and a string, with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.
Стр. 149 - ... the great astonishment of such of the guests as did not know him) burst into the room, chanting the desiderated ballad, with the most enthusiastic gesture, and all the energy of the sawtones of his voice already commemorated.
Стр. 154 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage : Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Стр. 72 - By this time his dogs had assembled about his chair — they began to fawn upon him and lick his hands, and he alternately sobbed and smiled over them, until sleep oppressed him.
Стр. 72 - Ladhope, and the outline of the Eildons burst on him, he became greatly excited, and when turning himself on the couch his eye caught at length his own towers, at the distance of a mile, he sprang up with a cry of delight. The river being in flood, we had to go round a few miles by Melrose bridge ; and during the time this occupied, his woods and house being within prospect, it required occasionally both Dr Watson's strength and mine, in addition to Nicolson's, to keep him in the carriage.
Стр. 142 - Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring bale-fires blaze no more ; No longer steel-clad warriors ride Along thy wild and willow'd shore ; Where'er thou wind'st, by dale or hill, All, all is peaceful, all is still, As if thy waves, since Time was born. Since first they roll'd upon the Tweed, Had only heard the shepherd's reed, Nor started at the bugle-horn.