The Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts... Usefully Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings of Salmon-flies, and Salmon-fry |
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Page 5
... joints , a casting line , and hook , of despicable fineness and size ! Great and suggestive of good is the wonder in which we gaze at the silver - sided salmon its strength wasted and its struggles o'er - lying there upon that gravelly ...
... joints , a casting line , and hook , of despicable fineness and size ! Great and suggestive of good is the wonder in which we gaze at the silver - sided salmon its strength wasted and its struggles o'er - lying there upon that gravelly ...
Page 7
... joints of a short rod , especially the one that is technically called the " small - piece , " will frequently break in the act of casting a long and heavy line -more frequently than during the act of play- ing a fish . With a long and ...
... joints of a short rod , especially the one that is technically called the " small - piece , " will frequently break in the act of casting a long and heavy line -more frequently than during the act of play- ing a fish . With a long and ...
Page 9
... joint or small - pieces , and such a cast is sufficiently long for all useful intents and purposes , and the strongest salmon may be checked in its career - hook , gut , and winch - line , being of good material — by a rod not exceeding ...
... joint or small - pieces , and such a cast is sufficiently long for all useful intents and purposes , and the strongest salmon may be checked in its career - hook , gut , and winch - line , being of good material — by a rod not exceeding ...
Page 7
... joint or alleg or we are fr all set cast is sufficiently 1 and purposes , and the str next who may checked in its career— Ekotel 2014 being of good material — yard stem in length seventeen feet . ea , The sixteen foot rod is eas rod ...
... joint or alleg or we are fr all set cast is sufficiently 1 and purposes , and the str next who may checked in its career— Ekotel 2014 being of good material — yard stem in length seventeen feet . ea , The sixteen foot rod is eas rod ...
Page 12
... joints of salmon - rods should be of the finest bamboo cane , and I see no objection to a short piece of lance - wood ... joint than in another ; elasticity , weight , and strength , or their opposites , will be irregularly distributed ...
... joints of salmon - rods should be of the finest bamboo cane , and I see no objection to a short piece of lance - wood ... joint than in another ; elasticity , weight , and strength , or their opposites , will be irregularly distributed ...
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