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 18
... wing - feather . I am greatly in favour of single gut casting- lines , and twisted treble gut ones I would not use except for spring - fishing . A model line should consist of three or four links of single gut at the extreme or fly ...
... wing - feather . I am greatly in favour of single gut casting- lines , and twisted treble gut ones I would not use except for spring - fishing . A model line should consist of three or four links of single gut at the extreme or fly ...
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... wings in a state of alternate expansion and contraction , that is extremely captivating . ' " I think I can make Mr. Scrope's directions touching casting the salmon - fly somewhat more easily understood . Hold your salmon - rod by ...
... wings in a state of alternate expansion and contraction , that is extremely captivating . ' " I think I can make Mr. Scrope's directions touching casting the salmon - fly somewhat more easily understood . Hold your salmon - rod by ...
Page 41
... wings on the body , compressing , of course , the fibres of the feathery or fur material of which wings , body , and legs , are made . When by the next motion , a sinking one , of the rod and line , the fly goes downwards against the ...
... wings on the body , compressing , of course , the fibres of the feathery or fur material of which wings , body , and legs , are made . When by the next motion , a sinking one , of the rod and line , the fly goes downwards against the ...
Page 42
... wing are obscured . The full wing and the full body are attenuated injuriously by water- pressure . Certainly , no matter how rapid the upward and downward motion of the fly may be , its fibres must open as they descend against the ...
... wing are obscured . The full wing and the full body are attenuated injuriously by water- pressure . Certainly , no matter how rapid the upward and downward motion of the fly may be , its fibres must open as they descend against the ...
Page 45
... wings and fibres will be nearly always in a state of collapse , and will wonder at the contraction of its size , and he will be amazed at the darting rapi- dity of its onward progress . If he understand rea- soning by induction , he ...
... wings and fibres will be nearly always in a state of collapse , and will wonder at the contraction of its size , and he will be amazed at the darting rapi- dity of its onward progress . If he understand rea- soning by induction , he ...
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