Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... fish fine , but , if he wants to make the best basket , to fish finer than anybody else , at least on the same water . It is perfectly true that when the pike is sharp - set he is , as I have said , practically omnivorous , but where ...
... fish fine , but , if he wants to make the best basket , to fish finer than anybody else , at least on the same water . It is perfectly true that when the pike is sharp - set he is , as I have said , practically omnivorous , but where ...
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... fish . 1. Never thrust your gaff forward until you are prepared to strike , and never make any half - attempts . These feints generally scare the fish , and not unfrequently cut the line . 2. Under ordinary circumstances do not attempt ...
... fish . 1. Never thrust your gaff forward until you are prepared to strike , and never make any half - attempts . These feints generally scare the fish , and not unfrequently cut the line . 2. Under ordinary circumstances do not attempt ...
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... fish , bringing it gently down upon it , as it were . Then a short sharp jerk from the wrist and elbow will drive in the gaff without prematurely frightening the fish or endangering the tackle . 5. Once more , above all things avoid ...
... fish , bringing it gently down upon it , as it were . Then a short sharp jerk from the wrist and elbow will drive in the gaff without prematurely frightening the fish or endangering the tackle . 5. Once more , above all things avoid ...
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... Fish Culture Asso- ciation , whose labours in the field of fish culture and acclima- tisation are so well known and highly appreciated , writes thus on the subject in the Fishing Gazette of October 25 , 1884- BRANDY AS A FISH REVIVER ...
... Fish Culture Asso- ciation , whose labours in the field of fish culture and acclima- tisation are so well known and highly appreciated , writes thus on the subject in the Fishing Gazette of October 25 , 1884- BRANDY AS A FISH REVIVER ...
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... fish have become accustomed to the novelty . Consider- ing , however , that enough salted eel - baits can be carried in a small box or bait - can to last the spinner easily for a week , and that these can be kept and used again if not ...
... fish have become accustomed to the novelty . Consider- ing , however , that enough salted eel - baits can be carried in a small box or bait - can to last the spinner easily for a week , and that these can be kept and used again if not ...
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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...