A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing ...Longmans, Green, 1865 - 312 páginas |
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... caught by angling — with a diminutive artificial fly , a thin silkworm gut line , and a rod of pieces lighter and more limber than a lady's riding wand ! No -no such prodigy in their opinion ever occurred . Believe me — yes , the ...
... caught by angling — with a diminutive artificial fly , a thin silkworm gut line , and a rod of pieces lighter and more limber than a lady's riding wand ! No -no such prodigy in their opinion ever occurred . Believe me — yes , the ...
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... Dean Street , Soho , and then say whether his imitations are fair ones or not . We said that philosophers - naturalists with barnacles on nose - reading insect nature through 48 BIRDS CAUGHT WITH ARTIFICIAL FLIES . the glass -
... Dean Street , Soho , and then say whether his imitations are fair ones or not . We said that philosophers - naturalists with barnacles on nose - reading insect nature through 48 BIRDS CAUGHT WITH ARTIFICIAL FLIES . the glass -
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... CAUGHT WITH ARTIFICIAL FLIES . the glass - cases of museums , find , they assert , no likeness whatsoever between the natural fly and what , to the vulgar , appears the best artificial imitation ever dressed . The microscope , they cry ...
... CAUGHT WITH ARTIFICIAL FLIES . the glass - cases of museums , find , they assert , no likeness whatsoever between the natural fly and what , to the vulgar , appears the best artificial imitation ever dressed . The microscope , they cry ...
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... the proficient . The greatest number of trout , as is well known to every practical angler , * * This I pronounce one of the most barefaced misrepresenta- tions ever uttered . THEORETICAL NONSENSE . 55 is caught with flies which are.
... the proficient . The greatest number of trout , as is well known to every practical angler , * * This I pronounce one of the most barefaced misrepresenta- tions ever uttered . THEORETICAL NONSENSE . 55 is caught with flies which are.
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... caught with flies which are the least like any which frequent the water . The imitation of the yellow May - fly , which is so common on many streams towards the latter end of May and the beginning of June , is scarcely worth admitting ...
... caught with flies which are the least like any which frequent the water . The imitation of the yellow May - fly , which is so common on many streams towards the latter end of May and the beginning of June , is scarcely worth admitting ...
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