A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing: With the Natural History of River Fish, and the Best Modes of Catching Them |
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angler angling artificial flies bait barbel bend BEST BAITS black ostrich harl Blacker's Blaine blood red body bottom bottom-fishing brown mallard brown mohair bustard carp cast casting-line caught chub cock's hackle dace dark deep dibbing dressed dubbing dun hackle feather fibres fish float floss silk FLY-DRESSING fly-fishing foot-line gentles gold tinsel gold twist golden pheasant gorge-hook grayling green green drake grey ground-bait gudgeon hair hand hare's ear hook imitation inches insect kill larvæ legs light macaw May-fly minnow mixed mohair months motion mouth natural fly parr peacock harl perch pike practice red hackle ribbed with gold rise rivers roach round SALMON FLIES salmon roe says Scrope sea trout season shank shoulder side silver tinsel spawning spinning sport stream strike surface tackle terrestrial animals throw topping for tail trolling whilst whipped winch wind wing-feather wings worm yellow