The Fly-fisher's Entomology: With Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect ; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling-fishingLongmans, Green, 1883 - 132 páginas |
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... bright summer weather , nothing could be done from the banks : for example , in the clearer parts of the Dove , and other bright streams . Thirdly , in brooks , where fish are looking up - stream for the flies and other food which float ...
... bright summer weather , nothing could be done from the banks : for example , in the clearer parts of the Dove , and other bright streams . Thirdly , in brooks , where fish are looking up - stream for the flies and other food which float ...
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... bright yellow ( about a table - spoonful to a pint of water ) , then boil them in a dye of mather , peach wood or Brazil wood . To set the colour , put a few drops of " dyer's spirit " ( i.e nitrate of tin combined with a small quantity ...
... bright yellow ( about a table - spoonful to a pint of water ) , then boil them in a dye of mather , peach wood or Brazil wood . To set the colour , put a few drops of " dyer's spirit " ( i.e nitrate of tin combined with a small quantity ...
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... bright , a few inches before he gets up to the fly , and the fisherman must strike im- mediately that he does so , for his motion at the instant of seizure is too rapid to be visible . When the fisherman comes upon a favourable place ...
... bright , a few inches before he gets up to the fly , and the fisherman must strike im- mediately that he does so , for his motion at the instant of seizure is too rapid to be visible . When the fisherman comes upon a favourable place ...
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... bright and glossy , and the under surface of the feather used for the wings should be shown . The bodies of these delicate insects are some- times beautifully imitated by stained hair and gut ; but a fly should be made as soft as silk ...
... bright and glossy , and the under surface of the feather used for the wings should be shown . The bodies of these delicate insects are some- times beautifully imitated by stained hair and gut ; but a fly should be made as soft as silk ...
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... bright red brown , and its wings , which were before rather opaque , are transparent . It lives four or five days . It sports in the sunshine , and will be more successfully used in warm than cold weather ; but when the sun becomes too ...
... bright red brown , and its wings , which were before rather opaque , are transparent . It lives four or five days . It sports in the sunshine , and will be more successfully used in warm than cold weather ; but when the sun becomes too ...
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