Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard FliesC. F. Orvis, 1883 - 299 sider |
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... length of line and the expert can measure his cast by his one , two , three , four , as ac- curately as a teacher can regulate the time of his orches- tra by the movement of his baton . While this is true in casting with either rod it ...
... length of line and the expert can measure his cast by his one , two , three , four , as ac- curately as a teacher can regulate the time of his orches- tra by the movement of his baton . While this is true in casting with either rod it ...
Side 32
... length out of the water , upon a gravel bar , and con- tinued to work her way until she was completely out of water , and there I left her to die . A very large proportion of the fish were more or less bruised and discolored ; and upon ...
... length out of the water , upon a gravel bar , and con- tinued to work her way until she was completely out of water , and there I left her to die . A very large proportion of the fish were more or less bruised and discolored ; and upon ...
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... length , weighing but two and three - quar- ter pounds . At the Redoubt river , much larger ones were taken ; and two which I shot in Beardslee river were over two feet in length ; how much they weighed . I never found out , for their ...
... length , weighing but two and three - quar- ter pounds . At the Redoubt river , much larger ones were taken ; and two which I shot in Beardslee river were over two feet in length ; how much they weighed . I never found out , for their ...
Side 39
... Length , nine and one - half inches ; depth , two and three - eighth inches ; weight , five ounces ; colors - back , rich , dark brown , growing lighter toward median line ; at which , covering it for a space of half an inch , there is ...
... Length , nine and one - half inches ; depth , two and three - eighth inches ; weight , five ounces ; colors - back , rich , dark brown , growing lighter toward median line ; at which , covering it for a space of half an inch , there is ...
Side 41
... Length being equal , the Alaska trout , with the excep- tion of the Gardneri , or mountain trout , are lighter than those of our eastern streams . Using as a standard the average weight of a number of ten - inch Adirondack trout , the ...
... Length being equal , the Alaska trout , with the excep- tion of the Gardneri , or mountain trout , are lighter than those of our eastern streams . Using as a standard the average weight of a number of ten - inch Adirondack trout , the ...
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Side 288 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed!
Side 231 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Side 256 - I doubt not to catch a brace or two to-morrow, for a friend's breakfast : doubt not therefore, Sir, but that angling is an art, and an art worth your learning: the question is rather, whether you be capable of learning it? for angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so...
Side 256 - Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice : but he that hopes to be a good angler, must not only bring an inquiring, searching, observing wit, but he must bring a large measure of hope and patience, and a love and propensity to the art itself; but having once got and practised it, then doubt not but Angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.
Side 230 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Side 230 - While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile , To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring , Snatch'd from the hoary steed the floating line , And all thy slender wat'ry stores prepare.
Side 230 - Then, issuing cheerful, to thy sport repair ; Chief should the western breezes curling play, And light o'er ether bear the shadowy clouds. High to their fount, this day, amid the hills And woodlands warbling round, trace up the brooks...
Side 13 - Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Side 231 - Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly ; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear. At last, while haply o'er the shaded sun Passes a cloud, he desperate takes the death. With sullen plunge. At once he darts along. Deep struck, and runs out all the lengthened line ; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed.