Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... never changes his mind as an ass , or else as sacrificing truth to ' consistency ; ' but whatever my theories , and whatever may be their ulti- mate fate , I had , of course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the ...
... never changes his mind as an ass , or else as sacrificing truth to ' consistency ; ' but whatever my theories , and whatever may be their ulti- mate fate , I had , of course , no right or desire to air my hobbies in the pages of the ...
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... never care about fishing with a longer one . Many spinners , however , patronise a rod of more ample proportions , and indeed it is evident that a rod which would be the perfection of length for a man of five feet nine or ten , would ...
... never care about fishing with a longer one . Many spinners , however , patronise a rod of more ample proportions , and indeed it is evident that a rod which would be the perfection of length for a man of five feet nine or ten , would ...
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... never have a rod made with any other fastening in future . The ' catch ' was originally attached to the rod by nails or screws ( vide cut ) , but , at my suggestion , Messrs . Hardy have now substituted a catch entirely surrounding or ...
... never have a rod made with any other fastening in future . The ' catch ' was originally attached to the rod by nails or screws ( vide cut ) , but , at my suggestion , Messrs . Hardy have now substituted a catch entirely surrounding or ...
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... . Here is another ' receipt for waterproofing lines , ' taken from ' Chitty's Fly - fishing Text - book ' : I have never tried it , but on the principle of variatio delectat , some of my readers 24 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH .
... . Here is another ' receipt for waterproofing lines , ' taken from ' Chitty's Fly - fishing Text - book ' : I have never tried it , but on the principle of variatio delectat , some of my readers 24 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH .
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... never to clog or entangle , the oil producing the former quality and the gold size ( which is insoluble in water ) the latter ; while the commixture prevents the size becoming too hard and stiff . A trolling - line should be thus ...
... never to clog or entangle , the oil producing the former quality and the gold size ( which is insoluble in water ) the latter ; while the commixture prevents the size becoming too hard and stiff . A trolling - line should be thus ...
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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...