Alphabet of Angling: For the Use of BeginnersH.G. Bohn, 1849 - 136 Seiten |
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Seite xiii - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Seite 56 - Let me tell you, my friend, you should never allow a fish to run to the weeds, or to strike across the stream; you should carry him always down the stream, keeping his head high, and in the current. If in a weedy river you allow a large fish to run up stream, you are almost sure to lose him.
Seite 48 - However fanciful or varied in shade or materials, it will frequently raise fish when all the imitations of nature have proved unsuccessful : indeed, so fastidious and whimsical are the salmon at times, that the more brilliant and extravagant the fly the more certain is the angler of diversion.
Seite 18 - Street from one of the club houses with an illustrious personage, laid him a wager that he would see more cats than the Prince in his walk, and that he might take which side of the street he liked. When they got to the top, it was found that Mr. Fox had seen thirteen cats, and the Prince not one. The royal personage asked for an explanation of this apparent miracle ; Mr.
Seite xiii - ... the Discourse of that pleasure which is most comely, most honest, and giveth the most liberty to Divine Meditation ? And that without all question is the Art of Angling, which having ever...
Seite 60 - In some rivers, Trouts begin to spawn in October; but November is the chief month of spawning. About the end of September they quit the deep water, to which they had retired during the hot weather, and make great efforts to gain the course of the currents, and seek out a proper place for depositing their ova.
Seite 117 - ... of the water. For some time the struggle was most amusing, the fish pulling, and the bird screaming with all its might ; the one attempting to fly, and the other...
Seite 15 - First, it is the best bait that I have seen in all my time ; and will take great store, and not fail, if they be there. Secondly, it is a special bait for dace, or dare, good for chub, or bottlin, or grayling. The bait is the roe of a salmon or trout ;* if it be a large trout, that the spawns be...
Seite 96 - ... still more common in September, Throughout the summer and autumn, in fine calm evenings, a large dun fly, with a pale yellow body, is greedily taken by grayling after sunset; and the imitation of it is very killing. In the end of October, and through November, there is no...
Seite 92 - ... bottom, and permit its motion, without any violent jogging on the ground. Carry the top of your rod even with your hand, beginning at the head of the stream, and letting the bait run downwards, as far as the rod and line will permit, the lead dragging and rolling on the ground. No more of the line...