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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... FLY - FISHING ACQUIREMENTS . process requiring the most skilful and delicate manipulation . The fly - dresser is a modeller of no mean attributes . He has to represent , by means of the most delicate substances of varied tissue and ...
... FLY - FISHING ACQUIREMENTS . process requiring the most skilful and delicate manipulation . The fly - dresser is a modeller of no mean attributes . He has to represent , by means of the most delicate substances of varied tissue and ...
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... flies , I shall be most particular in stating the coloured materials of which they are to be made . The wings and feet of flies are almost always made of feathers , the bodies of fur , mohair , silk , wool , & c .; and the fly - dresser ...
... flies , I shall be most particular in stating the coloured materials of which they are to be made . The wings and feet of flies are almost always made of feathers , the bodies of fur , mohair , silk , wool , & c .; and the fly - dresser ...
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... DRESSING . and the midland counties . Hackles are to be got from a variety of other birds , from the grouse , the green and golden plover , the partridge , bittern , woodcock , snipe , wren ... FLY - DRESSERS . 71 information touching all.
... DRESSING . and the midland counties . Hackles are to be got from a variety of other birds , from the grouse , the green and golden plover , the partridge , bittern , woodcock , snipe , wren ... FLY - DRESSERS . 71 information touching all.
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... flies for different rivers and countries . Still we are not perfect in fly - making , nor shall we be so until some more pains - taking fly - dresser gets a collection of natural flies , examines them by means of the microscope ...
... flies for different rivers and countries . Still we are not perfect in fly - making , nor shall we be so until some more pains - taking fly - dresser gets a collection of natural flies , examines them by means of the microscope ...
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... FLY - DRESSERS . is a good likeness of the living subject or not . A fishing - tackle maker , to be a great and good one , should have an insect museum , -the flies , cater- pillars , and beetles , fish feed on , preserved in cases ...
... FLY - DRESSERS . is a good likeness of the living subject or not . A fishing - tackle maker , to be a great and good one , should have an insect museum , -the flies , cater- pillars , and beetles , fish feed on , preserved in cases ...
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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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