Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard FliesC. F. Orvis, 1883 - 299 sider |
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... nearly to the counterscarp of the topmost ledge in its almost successful effort to surmount a barrier so in- superable ! Surely , the example of such consummate pertinacity should teach men to laugh at average obstacles which stand in ...
... nearly to the counterscarp of the topmost ledge in its almost successful effort to surmount a barrier so in- superable ! Surely , the example of such consummate pertinacity should teach men to laugh at average obstacles which stand in ...
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... nearly straight backward and forward movement of the line . There are , of course , occasions when a semicircle sweep of the line , or a lateral movement , or an under cast is necessary to reach some desired objective point . All these ...
... nearly straight backward and forward movement of the line . There are , of course , occasions when a semicircle sweep of the line , or a lateral movement , or an under cast is necessary to reach some desired objective point . All these ...
Side 20
... nearly east and west there are several straits and sounds connecting Chatham Strait with the Pacific Ocean , of which Peril Strait , Icy Strait , and Cross Sound , are the principal . These , too , are bordered , as is Chatham Straits ...
... nearly east and west there are several straits and sounds connecting Chatham Strait with the Pacific Ocean , of which Peril Strait , Icy Strait , and Cross Sound , are the principal . These , too , are bordered , as is Chatham Straits ...
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... nearly straight ; others tarnished , and with slight elevation of back ; others red , with greater protuberance ; and finally , some purple - red , with fully developed humps , which more than double their height above the median line ...
... nearly straight ; others tarnished , and with slight elevation of back ; others red , with greater protuberance ; and finally , some purple - red , with fully developed humps , which more than double their height above the median line ...
Side 29
... nearly three months before any enter the stream , are simply visitors , which , on their way north , are driven in to seek shelter from the porpoises and other enemies . That they feed at this time , I have plenty of evi- dence . We ...
... nearly three months before any enter the stream , are simply visitors , which , on their way north , are driven in to seek shelter from the porpoises and other enemies . That they feed at this time , I have plenty of evi- dence . We ...
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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.