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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... inches to two feet apart . The length of gut to each dropper need not exceed two inches . The usual way of attaching flies is by looping them on . The only fly I loop is the stretcher . My droppers having a knot at the end of the gut ...
... inches to two feet apart . The length of gut to each dropper need not exceed two inches . The usual way of attaching flies is by looping them on . The only fly I loop is the stretcher . My droppers having a knot at the end of the gut ...
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... inch by inch , especially if the stream be a choice spot and fish upon the rise , whilst , under contrary circumstances , your progress may be more rapid , hurrying over chanceless parts , and fishing for luck quickly right a - head ...
... inch by inch , especially if the stream be a choice spot and fish upon the rise , whilst , under contrary circumstances , your progress may be more rapid , hurrying over chanceless parts , and fishing for luck quickly right a - head ...
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... inches only . Such a stroke made instantly the fish actually reaches the fly ( which is learned by habit ) , at the moment he has closed his mouth on it , and before he has time to throw it out again , is sure to secure the entrance of ...
... inches only . Such a stroke made instantly the fish actually reaches the fly ( which is learned by habit ) , at the moment he has closed his mouth on it , and before he has time to throw it out again , is sure to secure the entrance of ...
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... rise . The fish may be some- times seen , if he be of a good size and the water bright , a few inches before he gets up to the fly , and the fisherman must strike immediately that 46 OPINIONS OF OTHERS . he does so , for.
... rise . The fish may be some- times seen , if he be of a good size and the water bright , a few inches before he gets up to the fly , and the fisherman must strike immediately that 46 OPINIONS OF OTHERS . he does so , for.
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... inch long , and those from the game fowl are to be preferred . The principal colours are white , black , grizzled , grey , ginger , light red , dark red , and that variety in which the dark red is divided by a black listing . The dun or ...
... inch long , and those from the game fowl are to be preferred . The principal colours are white , black , grizzled , grey , ginger , light red , dark red , and that variety in which the dark red is divided by a black listing . The dun or ...
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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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