The TroutLongmans, Green, 1899 - 272 pages |
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Page 11
... colours which they spread over the land . And what shall be said of the bird - life which is always to be found by the riverside ? Nightingale , peewit , redstart , summer snipe , kingfisher , blackcap , and a hundred other kinds , all ...
... colours which they spread over the land . And what shall be said of the bird - life which is always to be found by the riverside ? Nightingale , peewit , redstart , summer snipe , kingfisher , blackcap , and a hundred other kinds , all ...
Page 38
... colours for wings and bodies , that I only dare suggest the two following patterns as those which I have found thoroughly effective on several rivers . They are : - 1. Body of dubbing , with red hackle ; wild - duck wing and mallard ...
... colours for wings and bodies , that I only dare suggest the two following patterns as those which I have found thoroughly effective on several rivers . They are : - 1. Body of dubbing , with red hackle ; wild - duck wing and mallard ...
Page 56
... coloured , making miniature cascades over the boulders , or gliding quietly over pools which from the intensity of their colour seem trebly deep , equipped with a light , somewhat stiff rod , some Stewart tackle , and a bag of well ...
... coloured , making miniature cascades over the boulders , or gliding quietly over pools which from the intensity of their colour seem trebly deep , equipped with a light , somewhat stiff rod , some Stewart tackle , and a bag of well ...
Page 76
... afforded no sport at all . It was curious to look into a pool and see a ' Scotchman ' lying side by side with native Derbyshire - born trouts . The one black , feeble , and useless ; the others bright - coloured , active and 76 THE TROUT.
... afforded no sport at all . It was curious to look into a pool and see a ' Scotchman ' lying side by side with native Derbyshire - born trouts . The one black , feeble , and useless ; the others bright - coloured , active and 76 THE TROUT.
Page 77
... coloured , active and well- conditioned . I cannot explain why this should have been so , but that it was the case I can confidently aver . In the other instance to which I have referred , namely that of a small reservoir , the ...
... coloured , active and well- conditioned . I cannot explain why this should have been so , but that it was the case I can confidently aver . In the other instance to which I have referred , namely that of a small reservoir , the ...
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&c.-continued alevins ALEXANDER INNES ALEXANDER INNES SHAND ANDREW LANG angler artificial artificial fly bait basket C. J. LONGMAN Cabinet Edition casting line caught clean CO.'S STANDARD colour Cookery Crown 8vo Derbyshire down-stream eggs England English ESSAYS Fario feeding fish-culturist fisherman flies fly fishing Francis Frank Buckland Froude's J. A. grayling Haggard's H. R. hatching hatching-boxes History hook Illus Illustrations inches insect killed length LL.D Loch Loch Leven LONGMANS & CO.'S Lord M.A. Crown 8vo Maps MARQUESS OF GRANBY Mayfly natural food perforated zinc Plates POEMS Popular Edition Portrait Proctor's R. A. R. A. PROCTOR rainbow trout rearing-boxes rise river salmon screens season side spawning sport stocking Story stream supply tail taken temperature Text tions Translated trations travelling tray trout fishing trout weighing two-year-olds up-stream vols weed wind worm yearlings
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