Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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... turning up , will often be avoided . For instance , the ' composite spinning - rod ' above described answers with a somewhat longer top exceedingly well for ' pater- nostering , ' or for minnow - spinning for trout , for barbelling ...
... turning up , will often be avoided . For instance , the ' composite spinning - rod ' above described answers with a somewhat longer top exceedingly well for ' pater- nostering , ' or for minnow - spinning for trout , for barbelling ...
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... turned slowly round and round at the ' sticking point ' over the flame of a candle for some seconds , or until it is found that the joint will come apart . This process does no damage to anything but the varnish on the ferrule . After ...
... turned slowly round and round at the ' sticking point ' over the flame of a candle for some seconds , or until it is found that the joint will come apart . This process does no damage to anything but the varnish on the ferrule . After ...
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... turned up with the tackle , and Mr. Rolfe's surprise was great indeed to find that these whitebait , instead of turning grey and black and losing their brightness , as minnows , & c . , do , were not only as silvery as the day they were ...
... turned up with the tackle , and Mr. Rolfe's surprise was great indeed to find that these whitebait , instead of turning grey and black and losing their brightness , as minnows , & c . , do , were not only as silvery as the day they were ...
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... turning the ends of the brass in opposite directions . Nothing , I must say , could look more tempting and life - like , and hope beat high as I carried the beautiful creature to the river - side , and debated by what appropriate name ...
... turning the ends of the brass in opposite directions . Nothing , I must say , could look more tempting and life - like , and hope beat high as I carried the beautiful creature to the river - side , and debated by what appropriate name ...
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... turned up at different angles on opposite sides , so as to give the bait a brilliant spin . I caught , as I say , a great many fish with this bait at first , and had a large stock of the head ' extin- guishers ' made but the second year ...
... turned up at different angles on opposite sides , so as to give the bait a brilliant spin . I caught , as I say , a great many fish with this bait at first , and had a large stock of the head ' extin- guishers ' made but the second year ...
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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...