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 10
... kill large fish to do so with delicate implements , demands the fine hand- ling of a finished artist . If I were fishing for gain , the big rod should be the instrument I would use ; -if for mere amusement — for try- ing pleasant ...
... kill large fish to do so with delicate implements , demands the fine hand- ling of a finished artist . If I were fishing for gain , the big rod should be the instrument I would use ; -if for mere amusement — for try- ing pleasant ...
Page 31
... killing gun has over an inferior one , both in the same skilful hands . I should therefore advise every aspirant to excellence in salmon - fishing , to attain this * " Rocks and Rivers , & c . " published last season , by Mr. Murray ...
... killing gun has over an inferior one , both in the same skilful hands . I should therefore advise every aspirant to excellence in salmon - fishing , to attain this * " Rocks and Rivers , & c . " published last season , by Mr. Murray ...
Page 51
... killed a hundred fish - lost , by the bad method I am censuring . Some of the parties fishing being of elevated rank or strangers , I durst not offer corrective advice to them . To one party I 52 A PRACTICAL ANGLING LESSON . could , and ...
... killed a hundred fish - lost , by the bad method I am censuring . Some of the parties fishing being of elevated rank or strangers , I durst not offer corrective advice to them . To one party I 52 A PRACTICAL ANGLING LESSON . could , and ...
Page 52
... killing flies . When tired myself , I - and whether it was that would give him the rod , my presence rendered him nervous or not , or that he had conceived a bad habit to be a good one , he was continually missing rises , or ...
... killing flies . When tired myself , I - and whether it was that would give him the rod , my presence rendered him nervous or not , or that he had conceived a bad habit to be a good one , he was continually missing rises , or ...
Page 53
... kill her , I'll nae strike fiercely agen . " I was confident , from the move- ments of the fish , that it was firmly hooked , and told him to play his prey boldly . He very easily killed it , though it was a " black " grilse , that is ...
... kill her , I'll nae strike fiercely agen . " I was confident , from the move- ments of the fish , that it was firmly hooked , and told him to play his prey boldly . He very easily killed it , though it was a " black " grilse , that is ...
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angler angling Argus pheasant Ballyshannon bittern black hackle black head black ostrich head blue and yellow blue hackle blue macaw Body brown mallard brown turkey bustard cast casting-line cloth colour dyed yellow dyeing Edition Engravings Fcap fibres fiery-brown fish flies fly-fishing fly-fishing for salmon Foolscap 8vo gold tinsel gold twist golden pheasant neck-feather grilse grouse hackle guinea-hen Invershin J. C. Loudon kill mohair months morocco orange hackle orange mohair orange tag peacock harl pig's hair pig's wool Plates pool Post 8vo red ibis ribbed with gold ribbed with silver river river Shin rod and line salmon-fishing salmon-fly season Shannon Shin side silver pheasant silver tinsel silver twist small topping smolts spawning spawning-bed Spey spotted turkey stream Sutherlandshire throw tinsel and gold tipped topping for tail trout turkey tail turkey tail-feather TWEED-FLIES vols winch winch-line Wings and hook Wood Woodcuts yellow mohair Young
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