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 64
... months , when there is a succes- sion of fine open weather , salmon are found in all parts of pools , heads and tails , and if in the latter localities there be a large block of stone forming an easily - stemmed eddy , they will be ...
... months , when there is a succes- sion of fine open weather , salmon are found in all parts of pools , heads and tails , and if in the latter localities there be a large block of stone forming an easily - stemmed eddy , they will be ...
Page 87
... months . PLATE II . No. 4. THE SHANNON . - Body , half light orange , half blue silk , to be ribbed with broad silver tinsel and gold twist ; a lightish blue hackle , stripped on one side , over body ; blue jay under shoulder ; head ...
... months . PLATE II . No. 4. THE SHANNON . - Body , half light orange , half blue silk , to be ribbed with broad silver tinsel and gold twist ; a lightish blue hackle , stripped on one side , over body ; blue jay under shoulder ; head ...
Page 95
... months , chiefly for grilse , or , as they are called in Ireland , " salmon peal . " At the head of them stands the " Goldfinch , " - that beauty standing first in the frontispiece , and described in writing at p . 86. Then comes No. 2 ...
... months , chiefly for grilse , or , as they are called in Ireland , " salmon peal . " At the head of them stands the " Goldfinch , " - that beauty standing first in the frontispiece , and described in writing at p . 86. Then comes No. 2 ...
Page 113
... months there is a greater number of large fish above the fall than below it , but by far a greater number of grilse below than above it in July and August . The best spots are Cromartie's pool , Angus's pool , the Ferlun pool , and the ...
... months there is a greater number of large fish above the fall than below it , but by far a greater number of grilse below than above it in July and August . The best spots are Cromartie's pool , Angus's pool , the Ferlun pool , and the ...
Page 114
... month is May , for later in the season it is frequently too low . However , after a flood it is invariably good . A hundred sea - trout may be taken in it in a few hours with a small ( No. 10. hook ) fly , having a bright yellow body ...
... month is May , for later in the season it is frequently too low . However , after a flood it is invariably good . A hundred sea - trout may be taken in it in a few hours with a small ( No. 10. hook ) fly , having a bright yellow body ...
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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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