Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on Angling |
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... hook and line , or , perhaps , what he never possessed , a fish ; and suppose he takes nothing , yet he enjoyeth a delightful walk by pleasant rivers , in sweet pastures , amongst odoriferous flowers , which gratify his senses and ...
... hook and line , or , perhaps , what he never possessed , a fish ; and suppose he takes nothing , yet he enjoyeth a delightful walk by pleasant rivers , in sweet pastures , amongst odoriferous flowers , which gratify his senses and ...
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... hook , as Christopher North has described so graphically and well ; but instead of a minnow or a beardie ( the loach or the stone loach of the south ) , I hooked a large trout ; my yarn thread was strong enough to twitch out the trout ...
... hook , as Christopher North has described so graphically and well ; but instead of a minnow or a beardie ( the loach or the stone loach of the south ) , I hooked a large trout ; my yarn thread was strong enough to twitch out the trout ...
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... fights , amongst which the battle of Camper- down held a distinguished place . His implements of angling were carefully disposed on nails and hooks about the room . I found him seated on a bench , before the AND GLEANINGS . 25.
... fights , amongst which the battle of Camper- down held a distinguished place . His implements of angling were carefully disposed on nails and hooks about the room . I found him seated on a bench , before the AND GLEANINGS . 25.
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... hook , and without any resistance he allowed the hook to be inserted under his gill , and was thus securely taken . Upon examination it was found the first was a female , and the second a male fish , and doubtless , as this happened ...
... hook , and without any resistance he allowed the hook to be inserted under his gill , and was thus securely taken . Upon examination it was found the first was a female , and the second a male fish , and doubtless , as this happened ...
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... hook , and the hackle feather fastened merely at the shank . A very favourite and successful practice of ours was to fish in a part of the river where others seldom thought of , in the dead still water , imitating a drowned fly , and ...
... hook , and the hackle feather fastened merely at the shank . A very favourite and successful practice of ours was to fish in a part of the river where others seldom thought of , in the dead still water , imitating a drowned fly , and ...
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.