The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making"The Bazaar" Office, 1881 - 481 sider |
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Side 32
... floating belly upwards . It lives a little time , till at last the gill covers cease to move , and the fish is dead . Not very much pathos in this , but sufficiently suggestive , however , of a similiar going the way of all fish , flesh ...
... floating belly upwards . It lives a little time , till at last the gill covers cease to move , and the fish is dead . Not very much pathos in this , but sufficiently suggestive , however , of a similiar going the way of all fish , flesh ...
Side 38
... float . I personally prefer the latter method . The float , in my opinion , is only a necessary nuisance at the best , and whenever possible it should be dispensed with . The process of working the paternoster depends for its perfection ...
... float . I personally prefer the latter method . The float , in my opinion , is only a necessary nuisance at the best , and whenever possible it should be dispensed with . The process of working the paternoster depends for its perfection ...
Side 44
... float , his perception of a bite being not so acute as my own . We presently reached the highest point and nearest to the weir , from which we intended proceeding down stream . The modus of the fishing consisted of being slowly handed ...
... float , his perception of a bite being not so acute as my own . We presently reached the highest point and nearest to the weir , from which we intended proceeding down stream . The modus of the fishing consisted of being slowly handed ...
Side 72
... float - for it is ordinarily better to use a float — is a light quill . On the lower part of the gut , at about a foot or so from the hook , I attach a couple of large split shots . The float is so adjusted that , whilst one of the ...
... float - for it is ordinarily better to use a float — is a light quill . On the lower part of the gut , at about a foot or so from the hook , I attach a couple of large split shots . The float is so adjusted that , whilst one of the ...
Side 73
... float the light tackle to the wily fish , and trust to my skill in hooking and playing one at that great distance . My bait was a fresh green pea , which I now extracted from its pod , and impaled on the hook , so as to almost ...
... float the light tackle to the wily fish , and trust to my skill in hooking and playing one at that great distance . My bait was a fresh green pea , which I now extracted from its pod , and impaled on the hook , so as to almost ...
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Side 4 - Look, under that broad beech-tree I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill...
Side 5 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Side 2 - Now for the Art of catching fish, that is to say, How to make a man that was none, to be an Angler by a book, he that undertakes it shall undertake a harder task than Mr. Hales, a most valiant and excellent fencer, who in a printed book called A Private School of Defence undertook to teach that art or science, and was laughed at for his labour.
Side 212 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.
Side 259 - ... rejects the skipping hook, He shakes the boughs that on the margin grow, Which o'er the stream a waving forest throw, When if an insect fall, (his certain guide) He gently takes him from the whirling tide, Examines well his form with curious eyes, His gaudy vest, his wings, his horns, and size ; Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, And on the back a speckled feather binds ; So just the colours shine through every part, That Nature seems to live again in Art.
Side 53 - ... of the machinery in operation. The miller's ear is constantly directed to the note made by the running-stone in its circular course over the bed-stone, the exact parallelism of their two surfaces, indicated by a particular sound, being a matter of the first consequence ; and his hand is as constantly placed under the meal-spout, to ascertain by actual contact the character and qualities of the meal produced. The thumb, by a particular movement, spreads the sample over the fingers ; the thumb...
Side 10 - The bishop's men having gathered eel-nets everywhere, cast them into the sea, and by the blessing of God took three hundred fishes of several sorts, which, being divided into three parts, they gave a hundred to the poor, a hundred to those of whom they had the nets, and kept a hundred for their own use.
Side 315 - Oh ! the gallant fisher's life, It is the best of any ; 'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife, And 'tis beloved by many : Other joys Are but toys, Only this Lawful is ; For our skill Breeds no ill, But content and pleasure.
Side 23 - ... off, the fish leans to that side , if the ventral fin on the same side be cut away, then it loses its equilibrium entirely ; if the dorsal and ventral fins be cut off, the fish reels to the right and left. When the fish dies, that is, when the fins cease to play, the belly turns upwards.
Side 346 - Gardener ; they both their assistance supplied, ' And managed to hold her up. — But when she