Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... , a modification of the principle of the pronged ring recommended for the bottom joint . The wire , it will be seen , is made to branch out in the shape of a V , the sides forming a continuation of the ring itself , PIKE - TACKLE . 13.
... , a modification of the principle of the pronged ring recommended for the bottom joint . The wire , it will be seen , is made to branch out in the shape of a V , the sides forming a continuation of the ring itself , PIKE - TACKLE . 13.
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... recommended for the inter- mediate rings , of which it is important that there should be enough on the rod to prevent the weight of the line bagging between the intervals , and yet not so many as unnecessarily to increase the friction ...
... recommended for the inter- mediate rings , of which it is important that there should be enough on the rod to prevent the weight of the line bagging between the intervals , and yet not so many as unnecessarily to increase the friction ...
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... recommend a check winch with narrow grooves and deep side plates - one of the greatest improvements which has been introduced into reels in modern times - and a check which should be rather ' weaker than stronger , ' to paraphrase the ...
... recommend a check winch with narrow grooves and deep side plates - one of the greatest improvements which has been introduced into reels in modern times - and a check which should be rather ' weaker than stronger , ' to paraphrase the ...
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... recommended , from sheep's and catgut to ' silver and silk twisted . ' These prescriptions , however , it must be admitted , belonged to the earliest historic ( or shall I say pre - historic ? ) times of the literature of angling . Even ...
... recommended , from sheep's and catgut to ' silver and silk twisted . ' These prescriptions , however , it must be admitted , belonged to the earliest historic ( or shall I say pre - historic ? ) times of the literature of angling . Even ...
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... recommend all purchasers of gimp to resort to , is the very simple one of trying its strength or weight - lifting power . As in the case also of dressed silk trolling - lines , the fisherman will be 1 These are the sizes and numbers of ...
... recommend all purchasers of gimp to resort to , is the very simple one of trying its strength or weight - lifting power . As in the case also of dressed silk trolling - lines , the fisherman will be 1 These are the sizes and numbers of ...
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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...