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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... hook is , no doubt , a singular specimen of angling . But the Chinese may be said to practise the plan habitually ... hook ; the other , a diver , takes the hook and a hammer and dives to the bottom , and there he begins crack- ing and ...
... hook is , no doubt , a singular specimen of angling . But the Chinese may be said to practise the plan habitually ... hook ; the other , a diver , takes the hook and a hammer and dives to the bottom , and there he begins crack- ing and ...
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... hook just touching the bottom without being sucked under by the whirl of the stream , and about from one - half to three - quarters of an inch of the quill showing above water . In bank - fishing , the angler should never be without a ...
... hook just touching the bottom without being sucked under by the whirl of the stream , and about from one - half to three - quarters of an inch of the quill showing above water . In bank - fishing , the angler should never be without a ...
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... hook of not quite a round bend , but with the point deflected to the side a little ( not too much ) , and bent inwards the least trifle in the world ; and , added to this , I do not hold with the shank being too short . It is a great ...
... hook of not quite a round bend , but with the point deflected to the side a little ( not too much ) , and bent inwards the least trifle in the world ; and , added to this , I do not hold with the shank being too short . It is a great ...
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... hook . I am the tenant of a por- tion of a river in which thousands of splendid roach may be seen in great shoals . I have tried them by every con- ceivable kind of baiting for two or ... hook , 20 20 ON BAITING THE HOOK . if the water c 2.
... hook . I am the tenant of a por- tion of a river in which thousands of splendid roach may be seen in great shoals . I have tried them by every con- ceivable kind of baiting for two or ... hook , 20 20 ON BAITING THE HOOK . if the water c 2.
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... hook , to take only one gentle , will be found preferable . Two dead gentles , jammed together in the fashion in which the hook is usually baited , are not a common spectacle to the fish when the angler is using gentles as ground - bait ...
... hook , to take only one gentle , will be found preferable . Two dead gentles , jammed together in the fashion in which the hook is usually baited , are not a common spectacle to the fish when the angler is using gentles as ground - bait ...
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