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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... deep rapids of the Shannon have succumbed to the cunning hand deftly manipulating such frail gear . - - - Let us after this see what fly - fishing is — whether it is a fool at one end of a rod , and a worm at the other . The greatest ...
... deep rapids of the Shannon have succumbed to the cunning hand deftly manipulating such frail gear . - - - Let us after this see what fly - fishing is — whether it is a fool at one end of a rod , and a worm at the other . The greatest ...
Page 43
... deep waters , from overhanging banks , & c . , beware of his plunge . " In playing and landing a fish , do so with your winch and the rings of your rod pointing up- wards . In England people throw the line , strike , play , and land a ...
... deep waters , from overhanging banks , & c . , beware of his plunge . " In playing and landing a fish , do so with your winch and the rings of your rod pointing up- wards . In England people throw the line , strike , play , and land a ...
Page 54
... deep waters are ruffled , and few natural May - flies are out , imitations of them will kill well . I account for it thus . During such weather the imperfections of the artificial fly are to a great measure hidden . The water is ...
... deep waters are ruffled , and few natural May - flies are out , imitations of them will kill well . I account for it thus . During such weather the imperfections of the artificial fly are to a great measure hidden . The water is ...
Page 103
... deep straw - colour , over which wind some fox - coloured fur taken from a hare's poll ; legs , a honey - dun hackle ; wings , to stand erect , of the top of the light or inner fibres of the feather of the hen pheasant's wing ; tail ...
... deep straw - colour , over which wind some fox - coloured fur taken from a hare's poll ; legs , a honey - dun hackle ; wings , to stand erect , of the top of the light or inner fibres of the feather of the hen pheasant's wing ; tail ...
Page 107
... downwards - hence one of its names . In May and June this fly is also in season , and it will kill well in deep streams , and on pools that are ruffled by a strong but tepid wind . I shall 108 THE SAND - FLY . give two ways of.
... downwards - hence one of its names . In May and June this fly is also in season , and it will kill well in deep streams , and on pools that are ruffled by a strong but tepid wind . I shall 108 THE SAND - FLY . give two ways of.
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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