A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every BranchLongmans, Green & Company, 1867 - 429 páginas |
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... Thames , for example , more ground - bait is often wasted and thrown away in one day than , judiciously applied , would suffice for a week's sport . In overnight ground - baiting a pitch the method depends GROUND - BAITS . 7 upon the ...
... Thames , for example , more ground - bait is often wasted and thrown away in one day than , judiciously applied , would suffice for a week's sport . In overnight ground - baiting a pitch the method depends GROUND - BAITS . 7 upon the ...
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... Thames . He gave the rod back to me , and both he and my friend , who was a good fisherman , set the fish at some fourteen or fifteen pounds weight . So greatly was this fish's power increased by being hooked foul in a sharp stream ...
... Thames . He gave the rod back to me , and both he and my friend , who was a good fisherman , set the fish at some fourteen or fifteen pounds weight . So greatly was this fish's power increased by being hooked foul in a sharp stream ...
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... Thames , with a chosen friend , a cold pigeon - pie , a bottle of sparkling sherry , unlimited seltzer cooling in the well , a fine warm day , and a case of fragrant Cabanas , is not to be despised by any means . But revenons à nos ...
... Thames , with a chosen friend , a cold pigeon - pie , a bottle of sparkling sherry , unlimited seltzer cooling in the well , a fine warm day , and a case of fragrant Cabanas , is not to be despised by any means . But revenons à nos ...
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... Thames , Lea , and Colne are eagerly sought by shoals of roach - fishers every day in the week from June to Decem- ber , and under such wholesale , regular , and systematic per- secution , there is no doubt but that the stock of good ...
... Thames , Lea , and Colne are eagerly sought by shoals of roach - fishers every day in the week from June to Decem- ber , and under such wholesale , regular , and systematic per- secution , there is no doubt but that the stock of good ...
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... Thames , though I have seen them at special times feeding vora- ciously on flies . One warm day , in October 1860 , the ant fly was swarming in the air , and the water was thronged with it . I was fishing at Hampton , and every roach in ...
... Thames , though I have seen them at special times feeding vora- ciously on flies . One warm day , in October 1860 , the ant fly was swarming in the air , and the water was thronged with it . I was fishing at Hampton , and every roach in ...
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