A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing; with the Natural History of River Fish, and the Best Modes of Catching ThemLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 363 páginas |
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Página 56
... Thames without a shadow of success . Having found how difficult it was to kill large Thames trout with the ordinary artificial flies , I had some nondescript ones dressed as attractively as imagi- nation , guessing at probabilities ...
... Thames without a shadow of success . Having found how difficult it was to kill large Thames trout with the ordinary artificial flies , I had some nondescript ones dressed as attractively as imagi- nation , guessing at probabilities ...
Página 57
... Thames trout was not unlike the living fly that was then out upon the waters of that river . If fish preferred nondescript artificial flies , I may reasonably conclude they would prefer non- descript natural fish , mice , frogs ...
... Thames trout was not unlike the living fly that was then out upon the waters of that river . If fish preferred nondescript artificial flies , I may reasonably conclude they would prefer non- descript natural fish , mice , frogs ...
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... Thames trout and chub of the largest size . - The golden palmer - hackle . — The same as the last , except that it should be ribbed with gold twist , and worked with green silk , instead of silver platting and red silk ; legs , a dark ...
... Thames trout and chub of the largest size . - The golden palmer - hackle . — The same as the last , except that it should be ribbed with gold twist , and worked with green silk , instead of silver platting and red silk ; legs , a dark ...
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... Thames . There are evening and night flies which come into use towards the latter end of May , and last during the whole of the summer . They are imi- tations of those large moths that are seen towards nightfall flitting about the ...
... Thames . There are evening and night flies which come into use towards the latter end of May , and last during the whole of the summer . They are imi- tations of those large moths that are seen towards nightfall flitting about the ...
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... Thames and Trent , very large trout . Such fish generally refuse the fly , are seldom taken by bottom - fishing , but commonly fall before the prowess of the troller . I have just mentioned a few of the in- ducements that ought to lead ...
... Thames and Trent , very large trout . Such fish generally refuse the fly , are seldom taken by bottom - fishing , but commonly fall before the prowess of the troller . I have just mentioned a few of the in- ducements that ought to lead ...
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A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1847 |
A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1847 |
A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1853 |
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