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 vii
... winch and lines best suited for it . I tell him then how to use it , whether for casting the fly , humouring the fly on the water , or striking , hooking , or playing a salmon . I show him how a salmon river is to be fished , and where ...
... winch and lines best suited for it . I tell him then how to use it , whether for casting the fly , humouring the fly on the water , or striking , hooking , or playing a salmon . I show him how a salmon river is to be fished , and where ...
Page xiii
... Winches - Salmon - lines- Of what Material , and in what Way , they should be made - Their length - Gut Casting - lines- A model one -The Quality of Gut - Caution about Winch and Cast- ing - lines Page 1 - CHAPTER II . Throwing the Line ...
... Winches - Salmon - lines- Of what Material , and in what Way , they should be made - Their length - Gut Casting - lines- A model one -The Quality of Gut - Caution about Winch and Cast- ing - lines Page 1 - CHAPTER II . Throwing the Line ...
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... WINCHES , LINES , AND ON THEIR MAKE , MATERIAL , AND MANUFACTURE . I HAVE many times written about angling apolo getically . I have frequently written in its de- fence , and very often in praise of it . I was chiefly induced to do so ...
... WINCHES , LINES , AND ON THEIR MAKE , MATERIAL , AND MANUFACTURE . I HAVE many times written about angling apolo getically . I have frequently written in its de- fence , and very often in praise of it . I was chiefly induced to do so ...
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... winch , sounding like the whirr of an alarum clock , how quickly line is un- wound by the harpooned fish in its flight ; or I see it repudiate flight , and sullenly , after a drag or two , sink nearly to the bottom of the water , and ...
... winch , sounding like the whirr of an alarum clock , how quickly line is un- wound by the harpooned fish in its flight ; or I see it repudiate flight , and sullenly , after a drag or two , sink nearly to the bottom of the water , and ...
Page 6
... the advantages of very long and very powerful rods in wide rivers , and in strong hands ; and I admit , cæteris paribus , that a strong man , six feet in height , with a rod twenty feet long , ADVANTAGES OF LONG RODS . 7 and winch and line.
... the advantages of very long and very powerful rods in wide rivers , and in strong hands ; and I admit , cæteris paribus , that a strong man , six feet in height , with a rod twenty feet long , ADVANTAGES OF LONG RODS . 7 and winch and line.
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