Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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Página vii
... on any of the subjects dealt with will find the results of many years ' experience written by men who are in every case adepts at the Sport or Pastime of which they write . It is to point the way to success to those who are ignorant.
... on any of the subjects dealt with will find the results of many years ' experience written by men who are in every case adepts at the Sport or Pastime of which they write . It is to point the way to success to those who are ignorant.
Página xii
... fishers of long and successful experience and in every sense entitled to be regarded as masters of the craft . To the Marquis of Exeter , Mr. William Senior , angling Editor of the Field , Mr. Christopher Davies , xii PREFATORY NOTE .
... fishers of long and successful experience and in every sense entitled to be regarded as masters of the craft . To the Marquis of Exeter , Mr. William Senior , angling Editor of the Field , Mr. Christopher Davies , xii PREFATORY NOTE .
Página 15
... experience , but who does not wish his name to be published : - ' I am inclined to think that the cases referred to ( in your " Modern Practical Angler " ) where the brass ferrules of rods " bulge " and give way , are to be thus ...
... experience , but who does not wish his name to be published : - ' I am inclined to think that the cases referred to ( in your " Modern Practical Angler " ) where the brass ferrules of rods " bulge " and give way , are to be thus ...
Página 19
... experience goes , one only - is common to every reel hitherto made , viz . , that the line is apt to get caught ... experienced the practical convenience of this antidote to ' hitching ' will ever use a reel without it . It remains to ...
... experience goes , one only - is common to every reel hitherto made , viz . , that the line is apt to get caught ... experienced the practical convenience of this antidote to ' hitching ' will ever use a reel without it . It remains to ...
Página 23
... experience of most spinners that , even with the addition of a goodly propor- tion of silk , twenty yards of ordinary ' fly line ' cannot be in- duced by any amount of persuasion to run out through the rings of a jack rod . In the Book ...
... experience of most spinners that , even with the addition of a goodly propor- tion of silk , twenty yards of ordinary ' fly line ' cannot be in- duced by any amount of persuasion to run out through the rings of a jack rod . In the Book ...
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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...