Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... pike ( i.e. Esox lucius ) found in the waters of Great Britain , and recognised in those of Europe , the rivers and lakes of North America produce a great many varieties , all possessing more or less distinct charac ... PIKE AND PIKE-TACKLE.
... pike ( i.e. Esox lucius ) found in the waters of Great Britain , and recognised in those of Europe , the rivers and lakes of North America produce a great many varieties , all possessing more or less distinct charac ... PIKE AND PIKE-TACKLE.
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... pike are mentioned in the Act of the 6th year of Richard II . , 1382 , and also by Chaucer in the well - known lines : Full many a fair partrich hadde he in mewe , And many a breme , and many a Luce in stewe .. One of the names by which ...
... pike are mentioned in the Act of the 6th year of Richard II . , 1382 , and also by Chaucer in the well - known lines : Full many a fair partrich hadde he in mewe , And many a breme , and many a Luce in stewe .. One of the names by which ...
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... pike is the most greedy and devouring amongst fishes . So that lupus piscis , though it be proper for the sea wolf , yet it is often used for the pike itself , the fresh - water wolf . ' The pike is mentioned in the works of several ...
... pike is the most greedy and devouring amongst fishes . So that lupus piscis , though it be proper for the sea wolf , yet it is often used for the pike itself , the fresh - water wolf . ' The pike is mentioned in the works of several ...
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... pike . Woe be to his children , or his brother , mother , or cousin , grandchildren or great - grandchildren ... pike , that has been stealthily following his bait , suddenly dashes at it by the side of the boat or at the moment it is ...
... pike . Woe be to his children , or his brother , mother , or cousin , grandchildren or great - grandchildren ... pike , that has been stealthily following his bait , suddenly dashes at it by the side of the boat or at the moment it is ...
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... pike is sharp - set he is , as I have said , practically omnivorous , but where fine fishing and perfection of tackle come in is on the occasions when he is not regularly on the ... PIKE - TACKLE . SPINNING AND TROLLING - RODS . THE PIKE . 7.
... pike is sharp - set he is , as I have said , practically omnivorous , but where fine fishing and perfection of tackle come in is on the occasions when he is not regularly on the ... PIKE - TACKLE . SPINNING AND TROLLING - RODS . THE PIKE . 7.
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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...