A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling [etc.]T. Plummer, 1808 - 186 Seiten |
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... Gudgeon Pope Tench Bleak Flounder Minnow Loach Bull - head Sticklebach Guinniad Red Charr , or Welch Torgoch The Guilt , or Gilt Charr . CHAP . VI . The most scientific Method of making Fish - Ponds , Stews , & c .; to which are added ...
... Gudgeon Pope Tench Bleak Flounder Minnow Loach Bull - head Sticklebach Guinniad Red Charr , or Welch Torgoch The Guilt , or Gilt Charr . CHAP . VI . The most scientific Method of making Fish - Ponds , Stews , & c .; to which are added ...
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... are either the truttaceous , trout - kind ; or the gobionites , loche or gudgeon kind . Fishes with but one soft back - fin are of three sorts . The first has one long continued fin from GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FISHES . 11.
... are either the truttaceous , trout - kind ; or the gobionites , loche or gudgeon kind . Fishes with but one soft back - fin are of three sorts . The first has one long continued fin from GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF FISHES . 11.
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... gudgeon , perch , tench , and bream : the three last take the red - worm , well - scoured , exceedingly well . MARSH OR MEADOW - WORMS , Found in marshy ground or the fertile banks of rivers , are a little blueish , require more ...
... gudgeon , perch , tench , and bream : the three last take the red - worm , well - scoured , exceedingly well . MARSH OR MEADOW - WORMS , Found in marshy ground or the fertile banks of rivers , are a little blueish , require more ...
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... gudgeon , roach , or live frog . To apply it , if a fish , stick the hook through his upper lip , or back - fin , then fastening it to a strong line , ten or twelve yards long , tie the other end to some stake : in the ground , or stump ...
... gudgeon , roach , or live frog . To apply it , if a fish , stick the hook through his upper lip , or back - fin , then fastening it to a strong line , ten or twelve yards long , tie the other end to some stake : in the ground , or stump ...
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... if the day be dark and cloudy ; but a gudgeon is the best , if the water is clear and the day bright and fine . Your live baits should be kept in a tin kettle , with holes 3 ' made in the lid that you may change THE PIKE . 57.
... if the day be dark and cloudy ; but a gudgeon is the best , if the water is clear and the day bright and fine . Your live baits should be kept in a tin kettle , with holes 3 ' made in the lid that you may change THE PIKE . 57.
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Seite 138 - There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly; And as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Seite 141 - Ocean's sons, By his old sire, to his embraces runs, Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea, Like mortal life to meet eternity. Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold, His genuine and less guilty wealth t...
Seite 179 - A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
Seite 157 - Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Seite 134 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon...
Seite 177 - The same rule holds of a clear place, when all the sky is equally thick, except one clear edge.
Seite 141 - Brings home to us, and makes both Indies ours : Finds wealth where 'tis, bestows it where it wants, Cities in deserts, woods in cities plants ; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange.
Seite 44 - And looking lively gratitude. At last, The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, In large effusion, o'er the freshened world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the' umbrageous multitude of leaves.
Seite 137 - Which, by rapacious hunger swallow'd deep, Gives, as you tear it from the bleeding breast Of the weak helpless uncomplaining wretch, Harsh pain, and horror to the tender hand.
Seite 134 - Let no presuming impious railer tax Creative Wisdom , as if aught was form'd In vain, or not for admirable ends.