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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... bright and shining , and when in the coil is far less springy and hard if bent . It soon frays away , and a very few times of using rots it , whereas a really good sound undrawn gut line , if properly used , will last for months . It is ...
... bright and shining , and when in the coil is far less springy and hard if bent . It soon frays away , and a very few times of using rots it , whereas a really good sound undrawn gut line , if properly used , will last for months . It is ...
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... bright as silver , and the fins clear and rosy . Roach seldom much exceed two pounds in weight in any of the waters about London . They have been taken of three pounds weight in waters which are not often fished , and Pennant mentions ...
... bright as silver , and the fins clear and rosy . Roach seldom much exceed two pounds in weight in any of the waters about London . They have been taken of three pounds weight in waters which are not often fished , and Pennant mentions ...
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... bright the water , you will get sport when none of the boats or fishermen near you will perhaps be able to get any . " Among other baits much favoured by roach are creed malt , boiled wheat ; it must be boiled until it cracks , which ...
... bright the water , you will get sport when none of the boats or fishermen near you will perhaps be able to get any . " Among other baits much favoured by roach are creed malt , boiled wheat ; it must be boiled until it cracks , which ...
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... bright and round , and reasonably tough on the hooks . The metropolitan angler finds the best dace - fishing , particularly with the fly , on the various shallows between 30 THE CHUB . Isleworth and Teddington Lock . It.
... bright and round , and reasonably tough on the hooks . The metropolitan angler finds the best dace - fishing , particularly with the fly , on the various shallows between 30 THE CHUB . Isleworth and Teddington Lock . It.
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... bright - red well- scoured lob worm , neatly threaded on the hook , with barely one - third of an inch of the tail off the point of the hook , which should always be thoroughly covered and concealed in the bait . Be sure that your hook ...
... bright - red well- scoured lob worm , neatly threaded on the hook , with barely one - third of an inch of the tail off the point of the hook , which should always be thoroughly covered and concealed in the bait . Be sure that your hook ...
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