The Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts... Usefully Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings of Salmon-flies, and Salmon-fry |
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... DESCRIBED , AND THE BEST WAY OF ARTIFICIALLY BREEDING IT EXPLAINED . Usefully illustrated with numerous Coloured Engravings of Salmon - flies , and Salmon - fry . BY EPHEMERA , AUTHOR OF " A HANDBOOK OF ANGLING ; " ASSISTED BY ANDREW ...
... DESCRIBED , AND THE BEST WAY OF ARTIFICIALLY BREEDING IT EXPLAINED . Usefully illustrated with numerous Coloured Engravings of Salmon - flies , and Salmon - fry . BY EPHEMERA , AUTHOR OF " A HANDBOOK OF ANGLING ; " ASSISTED BY ANDREW ...
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... described is the largest , and I think I may say the best , ever published . It embraces general flies of my own selection , and local flies , the patterns of which I have had from the best recognized authorities . For the Tweed , Mr ...
... described is the largest , and I think I may say the best , ever published . It embraces general flies of my own selection , and local flies , the patterns of which I have had from the best recognized authorities . For the Tweed , Mr ...
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... described - How the Rod is to be held and wielded in casting the Line - The back- handed Cast -The left and right Shoulder Cast - Straight Casting eulogised - Mr . Scrope's Way of Casting - Mr . Stoddart's Method - How to become ...
... described - How the Rod is to be held and wielded in casting the Line - The back- handed Cast -The left and right Shoulder Cast - Straight Casting eulogised - Mr . Scrope's Way of Casting - Mr . Stoddart's Method - How to become ...
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... described - Flies for the Findhorn , Don , Dee , and Spey - For the Ballyshannon , Bann , Bush , Black- water , Lee ( Cork ) -Killarney and Waterville - Welsh Flies - General Flies - The Three Graces - Sea - trout Flies . - 67 CONTENTS ...
... described - Flies for the Findhorn , Don , Dee , and Spey - For the Ballyshannon , Bann , Bush , Black- water , Lee ( Cork ) -Killarney and Waterville - Welsh Flies - General Flies - The Three Graces - Sea - trout Flies . - 67 CONTENTS ...
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... Salmon a fresh- water Fish - Salmon - fry described - Plates of Ditto — The " Parr " a Trout - Size and age of the Smolt - Our and Mr. Shaw's Specimens - Page 157 xvi CONTENTS . CHAPTER II . Artificial Breeding of Salmon.
... Salmon a fresh- water Fish - Salmon - fry described - Plates of Ditto — The " Parr " a Trout - Size and age of the Smolt - Our and Mr. Shaw's Specimens - Page 157 xvi CONTENTS . CHAPTER II . Artificial Breeding of Salmon.
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