A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing ...Longmans, Green, 1865 - 312 páginas |
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... - sports has been more minutely and extensively written upon . No sporting writer is so generally known as Izaak Walton , and his ' Complete Angler ' has earned for him an im- < ANGLING SUBDIVIDED . 3 mortality which will last until the.
... - sports has been more minutely and extensively written upon . No sporting writer is so generally known as Izaak Walton , and his ' Complete Angler ' has earned for him an im- < ANGLING SUBDIVIDED . 3 mortality which will last until the.
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... complete atomies , and of changeable shapes and hues . Extreme neatness characterises all the paraphernalia of the fly - fisher . His sport requires the handling of nothing that will soil the best - bred hand . The composition of his ...
... complete atomies , and of changeable shapes and hues . Extreme neatness characterises all the paraphernalia of the fly - fisher . His sport requires the handling of nothing that will soil the best - bred hand . The composition of his ...
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... complete . ensue . When a fish is hooked foul , that is , on the out- side of the mouth , he has his head free , and you will find great difficulty in tiring him down . A small fish so hooked will show more strength than a large one ...
... complete . ensue . When a fish is hooked foul , that is , on the out- side of the mouth , he has his head free , and you will find great difficulty in tiring him down . A small fish so hooked will show more strength than a large one ...
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... complete fly , with wings , body , tail , and hackle for legs wound under the wings , and just before them . You see here the hackle - feather whip- ped on for the pur- pose of making the legs of a winged fly , or for making a plain ...
... complete fly , with wings , body , tail , and hackle for legs wound under the wings , and just before them . You see here the hackle - feather whip- ped on for the pur- pose of making the legs of a winged fly , or for making a plain ...
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... complete artist in flies . In ar- ranging the heads of this chapter , Mrs. Little , the wife of Mr. Little , fishing - tackle maker , No. 15 Fetter Lane , courteously assisted me . SUBSTANCES FOR FLY - MAKING . 85 MATERIALS USED IN.
... complete artist in flies . In ar- ranging the heads of this chapter , Mrs. Little , the wife of Mr. Little , fishing - tackle maker , No. 15 Fetter Lane , courteously assisted me . SUBSTANCES FOR FLY - MAKING . 85 MATERIALS USED IN.
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