The TroutLongmans, Green, 1899 - 272 pages |
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Page 9
... cast on the ' chuck and chance it ' principle . In the first case you pit your skill and piscatorial and ... casting into runs and rough water you have little or no idea of what is happening to your fly , or what the fish thinks of it ...
... cast on the ' chuck and chance it ' principle . In the first case you pit your skill and piscatorial and ... casting into runs and rough water you have little or no idea of what is happening to your fly , or what the fish thinks of it ...
Page 13
... casts in the air to dry it . And now having completed all preparations , and having made certain that the cast was thoroughly soaked before being attached to the line , let us accompany our angler to the spot where he proposes to FLY ...
... casts in the air to dry it . And now having completed all preparations , and having made certain that the cast was thoroughly soaked before being attached to the line , let us accompany our angler to the spot where he proposes to FLY ...
Page 14
... cast is made it may be worth while to mark carefully the peculiarities of the water wherein are the rising trout . They are lying in a kind of small angle of the river close to the side farthest from the angler . A couple of yards above ...
... cast is made it may be worth while to mark carefully the peculiarities of the water wherein are the rising trout . They are lying in a kind of small angle of the river close to the side farthest from the angler . A couple of yards above ...
Page 14
... casting . The bank is slightly raised on the side from which our friend must try for the fish , and he can , by ... cast was a trifle below him , and as you did not allow sufficiently for the swirl of the stream between the trout ...
... casting . The bank is slightly raised on the side from which our friend must try for the fish , and he can , by ... cast was a trifle below him , and as you did not allow sufficiently for the swirl of the stream between the trout ...
Page 14
... the water , and put his fly over those portions of the stream which he thinks are most likely to hold a trout . And you will please to remark that the fly is SWANTYPE not cast wildly at hazard on to the water 16 THE TROUT.
... the water , and put his fly over those portions of the stream which he thinks are most likely to hold a trout . And you will please to remark that the fly is SWANTYPE not cast wildly at hazard on to the water 16 THE TROUT.
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