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 ThemPtd. for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1848 - 361 páginas |
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... Blaine's " Encyclopædia of Rural Sports , " * p . 1178 . He says , " Striking the fish is to the full as im- portant a part of the rod and line management as any . Many strike too slowly , many too quickly , and a correct few strike at ...
... Blaine's " Encyclopædia of Rural Sports , " * p . 1178 . He says , " Striking the fish is to the full as im- portant a part of the rod and line management as any . Many strike too slowly , many too quickly , and a correct few strike at ...
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... Blaine , was famed for his knowledge of natural history and his practically scientific attainments . He says , " The small ephemeral flies , called duns in the angler's vo- cabulary , are very important to his practice : the ...
... Blaine , was famed for his knowledge of natural history and his practically scientific attainments . He says , " The small ephemeral flies , called duns in the angler's vo- cabulary , are very important to his practice : the ...
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... Blaine , from nearly every bird , from the gigantic ostrich down to the Lilliputian wren . Nothing can well be com- moner for making flies than the ostrich harl , or the individual fibres of some of the plumes of that bird , dyed ...
... Blaine , from nearly every bird , from the gigantic ostrich down to the Lilliputian wren . Nothing can well be com- moner for making flies than the ostrich harl , or the individual fibres of some of the plumes of that bird , dyed ...
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... Blaine says , " they are generally those which deck the neck and rump of the cock . Such hackles only should be chosen as have fibres about half an inch long , and those from the game fowl are to be preferred . The principal colours are ...
... Blaine says , " they are generally those which deck the neck and rump of the cock . Such hackles only should be chosen as have fibres about half an inch long , and those from the game fowl are to be preferred . The principal colours are ...
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... Blaine advises , " that skins of all kinds , when they fall in the angler's way should be looked over , and any striking portions pre- served , every one of which may prove valuable in the hour of need . " Of hair , there is none more ...
... Blaine advises , " that skins of all kinds , when they fall in the angler's way should be looked over , and any striking portions pre- served , every one of which may prove valuable in the hour of need . " Of hair , there is none more ...
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A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1848 |
A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1848 |
A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Visualização integral - 1848 |
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