Fishing, Volumen1Longmans, Green and Company, 1885 - 472 páginas |
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Página 18
... yards of jack - line is practically all that is required , and such an endless assortment of these can now be obtained at the tackle shops that the only difficulty lies in making a selection . For the reasons elsewhere mentioned I ...
... yards of jack - line is practically all that is required , and such an endless assortment of these can now be obtained at the tackle shops that the only difficulty lies in making a selection . For the reasons elsewhere mentioned I ...
Página 19
... yards of finest dressed - silk running - line on it , only weighs ten ounces . On the whole Slater's reel is the most original , and I am disposed to think , from the spinner's point of view , also the most practically useful of all the ...
... yards of finest dressed - silk running - line on it , only weighs ten ounces . On the whole Slater's reel is the most original , and I am disposed to think , from the spinner's point of view , also the most practically useful of all the ...
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... yards of ordinary ' fly line ' cannot be in- duced by any amount of persuasion to run out through the rings of a jack rod . In the Book of the Pike ' I wrote nearly 20 years ago— ' Some discussion has recently taken place as to the ...
... yards of ordinary ' fly line ' cannot be in- duced by any amount of persuasion to run out through the rings of a jack rod . In the Book of the Pike ' I wrote nearly 20 years ago— ' Some discussion has recently taken place as to the ...
Página 58
... yards away , was an indication that he was ' there , ' and probably trying to rid himself of his recent dinner ... yards off -- he actually towed the boat a good many yards in that direction before he was basketed . We all thought at ...
... yards away , was an indication that he was ' there , ' and probably trying to rid himself of his recent dinner ... yards off -- he actually towed the boat a good many yards in that direction before he was basketed . We all thought at ...
Página 67
... yards of line from the top of the rod and trail it once or twice back- wards and forwards over a grass - field . To return . The faulty construction , then , of the spinning - flight and the inconveniences of ' kinking ' were , no doubt ...
... yards of line from the top of the rod and trail it once or twice back- wards and forwards over a grass - field . To return . The faulty construction , then , of the spinning - flight and the inconveniences of ' kinking ' were , no doubt ...
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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...