A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing ...Longmans, Green, 1865 - 312 páginas |
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... means lift from the ground more than a minute fraction of the weight of that living , bounding , rushing fish he tires unto death - nay , drowns in its own element . The overcoming of difficulties by the suaviter in modo forms one of ...
... means lift from the ground more than a minute fraction of the weight of that living , bounding , rushing fish he tires unto death - nay , drowns in its own element . The overcoming of difficulties by the suaviter in modo forms one of ...
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... mean attributes . He has to represent , by means of the most delicate substances of varied tissue and colour , insects , often complete atomies , and of changeable shapes and hues . Extreme neatness characterises all the paraphernalia ...
... mean attributes . He has to represent , by means of the most delicate substances of varied tissue and colour , insects , often complete atomies , and of changeable shapes and hues . Extreme neatness characterises all the paraphernalia ...
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... mean to assert that he is the best fly - fisher of our acquaintance . The posses- sion of the one power commonly , not always , implies the possession of all the other necessary ones . Throwing well the line is an indispensable fly ...
... mean to assert that he is the best fly - fisher of our acquaintance . The posses- sion of the one power commonly , not always , implies the possession of all the other necessary ones . Throwing well the line is an indispensable fly ...
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... to do so , when you have learned to throw over- hand and underhand with the right arm . It is not by any means a necessary accomplishment . You have begun throwing by moving the point C 18 BACK - HANDED THROWING . of your rod from.
... to do so , when you have learned to throw over- hand and underhand with the right arm . It is not by any means a necessary accomplishment . You have begun throwing by moving the point C 18 BACK - HANDED THROWING . of your rod from.
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... mean of course- -is far more cogent than precept . When you see an old fly - fisher of acknowledged reputation on the water , watch his movements , and gain knowledge from what you see as well as from what you hear .. You see , most ...
... mean of course- -is far more cogent than precept . When you see an old fly - fisher of acknowledged reputation on the water , watch his movements , and gain knowledge from what you see as well as from what you hear .. You see , most ...
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A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, and ... Edward Fitzgibbon Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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