A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing ...Longmans, Green, 1865 - 312 páginas |
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... deep rapids of the Shannon have succumbed to the cunning hand deftly manipu- lating such frail gear . Let us after this see what fly - fishing is- whether it is a fool at one end of a rod and a worm at the other . The greatest names in ...
... deep rapids of the Shannon have succumbed to the cunning hand deftly manipu- lating such frail gear . Let us after this see what fly - fishing is- whether it is a fool at one end of a rod and a worm at the other . The greatest names in ...
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... deep waters are ruffled , and few natural May - flies are out , imitations of them will kill well . I account for it thus . During such weather the imperfec- tions of the artificial fly are to a great measure hidden . The water is ...
... deep waters are ruffled , and few natural May - flies are out , imitations of them will kill well . I account for it thus . During such weather the imperfec- tions of the artificial fly are to a great measure hidden . The water is ...
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... deep straw colour , over which wind some fox - coloured fur taken from a hare's poll ; legs , a honey - dun hackle ; wings , to stand erect , of the top of the light or inner fibres of the feather of the hen pheasant's wing ; tail , two ...
... deep straw colour , over which wind some fox - coloured fur taken from a hare's poll ; legs , a honey - dun hackle ; wings , to stand erect , of the top of the light or inner fibres of the feather of the hen pheasant's wing ; tail , two ...
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... deep streams , and on pools that are ruffled by a strong but tepid wind . I shall give but one way of dressing it , the very best , which is as follows : -- Body , yellow mohair , ribbed regularly with dark - brown silk ; legs , a honey ...
... deep streams , and on pools that are ruffled by a strong but tepid wind . I shall give but one way of dressing it , the very best , which is as follows : -- Body , yellow mohair , ribbed regularly with dark - brown silk ; legs , a honey ...
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... deep am- ber , or a rich brown ostrich harl , ribbed alternately with gold and silver twist ; legs , a red cock's hackle . Hook , as before . No. 27. Red palmer - hackle . — Body , dark red- coloured mohair , with a little richly ...
... deep am- ber , or a rich brown ostrich harl , ribbed alternately with gold and silver twist ; legs , a red cock's hackle . Hook , as before . No. 27. Red palmer - hackle . — Body , dark red- coloured mohair , with a little richly ...
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