Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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Página 9
... casting ' of a spinning bait and for the ' playing ' of it when it has been cast . I daresay many trollers - much better fishermen than I am -will warmly , not to say hotly , dissent from this proposition . Every angler has his own ...
... casting ' of a spinning bait and for the ' playing ' of it when it has been cast . I daresay many trollers - much better fishermen than I am -will warmly , not to say hotly , dissent from this proposition . Every angler has his own ...
Página 10
... casting capacity of the rod are remarkable , and I think of all the spinning - rods I have , or have had pass through my hands , this is my favourite . The two centre bamboo joints are all that remain of a mottled East Indian cane which ...
... casting capacity of the rod are remarkable , and I think of all the spinning - rods I have , or have had pass through my hands , this is my favourite . The two centre bamboo joints are all that remain of a mottled East Indian cane which ...
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... casting the fly , and I calculate roughly that if the number of salmon I have caught with it with minnow , fly , or worm ... cast his heavy rod overbalanced his light body , and he tumbled out of the punt , below New Lock Weir , and was ...
... casting the fly , and I calculate roughly that if the number of salmon I have caught with it with minnow , fly , or worm ... cast his heavy rod overbalanced his light body , and he tumbled out of the punt , below New Lock Weir , and was ...
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... casting is apt to induce those sudden separations between top , middle , and lower joints which entail waste of time and loss of temper , if nothing more . If anglers would continue to refuse to purchase any more rods with the old ...
... casting is apt to induce those sudden separations between top , middle , and lower joints which entail waste of time and loss of temper , if nothing more . If anglers would continue to refuse to purchase any more rods with the old ...
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... cast , without any reserve of loose line , on the assumption that between the skill of the caster and the unchecked ' running ' of the reel itself the latter will give out sufficient line , and with sufficient rapidity and accuracy , to ...
... cast , without any reserve of loose line , on the assumption that between the skill of the caster and the unchecked ' running ' of the reel itself the latter will give out sufficient line , and with sufficient rapidity and accuracy , to ...
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Página 334 - O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Página 149 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead, Ere the first day of death is fled — The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress — (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild, angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Página 197 - But of this no more, but that it is observed, that the old or very great Pikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle-sized Pikes, being by the most and choicest palates observed to be the best meat; and contrary, the Eel is observed to be the better for age and bigness.
Página 255 - ... spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror ; who, in the most persevering and unrelenting way, chases his rival from one part of the tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue.
Página 176 - Shrewsbury Barker' depicts the trolling-rod of this Paladin but goes no further. Receding again a period of more than sixty years, we call into court Master Leonard Mascall, who, in 1590, presented the world with ' A Booke of Fishing with Hooke and Line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging...