Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the Badminton Library ; and I am sure that my readers will , in any case , be the gainers by the substitution of the admirable essays alluded to , written as they are by fly ...
... course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the Badminton Library ; and I am sure that my readers will , in any case , be the gainers by the substitution of the admirable essays alluded to , written as they are by fly ...
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... course , cost next to nothing , and break or bulge with the first strain put upon them . The ferrules used by the really good tackle - makers are made , I am informed , each one separately , out of sheet brass , hard - soldered , or ...
... course , cost next to nothing , and break or bulge with the first strain put upon them . The ferrules used by the really good tackle - makers are made , I am informed , each one separately , out of sheet brass , hard - soldered , or ...
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... favour the Nottingham . reel at any rate as improved by some recent additions . I do not , of course , for a moment expect , or , indeed , wish , to convert the Nottingham trollers to what is commonly known PIKE - TACKLE . 21.
... favour the Nottingham . reel at any rate as improved by some recent additions . I do not , of course , for a moment expect , or , indeed , wish , to convert the Nottingham trollers to what is commonly known PIKE - TACKLE . 21.
Página 31
... course , without cutting edges of any description . By carrying the disgorger in this manner , as a part of the fishing - knife , there is one thing less to be re- membered every morning before starting , a blessing to absent- minded ...
... course , without cutting edges of any description . By carrying the disgorger in this manner , as a part of the fishing - knife , there is one thing less to be re- membered every morning before starting , a blessing to absent- minded ...
Página 33
... course , attainable in gaffing as in everything else , and it may even be said that special qualities , physical and mental , are required to make a really first - rate gaffer . Steady nerves and a lightning- like rapidity of decision ...
... course , attainable in gaffing as in everything else , and it may even be said that special qualities , physical and mental , are required to make a really first - rate gaffer . Steady nerves and a lightning- like rapidity of decision ...
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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...