A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and Salmon-fishing; with the Natural History of River Fish, and the Best Modes of Catching ThemLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 363 |
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Strona 264 - I had known it but twenty years ago, I would have gained a hundred pounds only with that bait. I am bound in duty to divulge it to your honour, and not• to carry it to my grave with me. I do desire that men of quality should have it, that delight in that pleasure. The greedy angler will murmur at me, but for that I care not.
Strona 264 - Noble Lord, — I have found an experience of late, which you may angle with, and take great store of this kind of fish. First, it is the best bait for a Trout that I have seen in all my time ; and will take great store, and not fail, if they be there. Secondly, it is a special bait for Dace or Dare, good for Chub, or Bottlin, or Grayling. The bait is, the roe of a Salmon or Trout. If it be a large Trout, that the spawns be any thing great, you...
Strona 48 - A nondescript artificial fly will succeed better, they say, than a bad resemblance, and every attempt at imitation, in their opinion, produces at the best but a bad resemblance. These angling heretics contend that fish, rising at a natural fly, immediately detect — by comparison, of course — the bad imitation, and refuse to rise at it; whereas they will rise at some outlandish artificial that differs, more than chalk does from Cheshire cheese, from the living fly on the water. They say, that...
Strona 172 - ... left hand, so that nothing may impede or check the progress of the fish in carrying the bait to its hold in order to pouch it; do not strike until he has had possession of the bait about seven minutes, or till the line shakes or moves in the water, then wind up the slack line, and turn the rod...
Strona 43 - When the fisherman cornes upon a favourable place for grayling, he should recollect that this fish does not follow the fly as the trout does, and should therefore allow it to float down the stream in a natural way, for should a grayling be waiting for it, when it is drawn away, the fish will be disappointed of that which it was the fisherman's intention to entertain him with. " It must also be remarked here that the mouth of the grayling is much more tender than that of the trout ; therefore much...
Strona 312 - In high water, the channel side, as a general rule, is the best, and at the check of the current, to ensure their capture. Like all other fish that swim near the surface of the water, the salmon cannot be eaten in too fresh a condition. Salmon are led by instinct to select such places for depositing their spawn as are the least likely to be affected by the floods. These are the broad parts of the river, where the water runs swift and shallow, and has a free passage over an even bed. Here they select...
Strona 94 - AND PURPLE. Hackles of various colours, boiled (without alum) in an infusion of logwood and Brazil wood dust until they are as red as they can be made by this means, may be changed to a deeper red by putting them into a mixture of muriatic acid and tin, and to a purple by a warm solution of potash. As the muriatic acid is not to be saturated with tin, the solution must be much diluted. If it burns your tongue much, it will burn the feathers a little. 6. TO DTE BED HACKLES A CLAKET COLOUR.
Strona 304 - May (one hundred and one days after impregnation), they had burst the envelope, and were to be found amongst the shingle of the stream. The temperature of the water was at this time 43°, and of the atmosphere 45°.
Strona 6 - The marvel lies in the triumph of art over brute force. If the sporting gear of the fly-fisher were not managed with art on the mathematical principles of leverage, he could not by its means lift from the ground more than a minute fraction of the weight of that living, bounding, rushing fish he tires unto death, nay, drowns in its own element.
Strona 54 - The artificial May-fly is not a killing bait except under peculiar circumstances, and when thrown upon the water amongst the real flies, fish will generally prefer the latter. Use any other artificial fly, as unlike the May-fly as possible, and you will prove the theory of the philosophers to be erroneous, for fish will not rise at these unlike flies at all.