The TroutLongmans, Green, 1899 - 272 pages |
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... leaving for the districts through which Kennet , Test , Lea , Mimram , Chess , or other trout - yielding river gently flows . His scepticism touching the attractiveness of the ' gentle art ' as practised in this year of grace must then ...
... leaving for the districts through which Kennet , Test , Lea , Mimram , Chess , or other trout - yielding river gently flows . His scepticism touching the attractiveness of the ' gentle art ' as practised in this year of grace must then ...
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... leaves ; the forms of the myriad wild flowers upon the banks , should gladden both eye and mind ; while , should any coppice or wood approach the river , then at various seasons the starwort , herb robin , bluebell , forget - me - not ...
... leaves ; the forms of the myriad wild flowers upon the banks , should gladden both eye and mind ; while , should any coppice or wood approach the river , then at various seasons the starwort , herb robin , bluebell , forget - me - not ...
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... leaving home , and having been put away when damp at the end of the previous year , it is rotten , and breaks with the first heavy fish ; the casting line is put on in a brittle , ' kinked , ' condition , the hurry of the occasion ...
... leaving home , and having been put away when damp at the end of the previous year , it is rotten , and breaks with the first heavy fish ; the casting line is put on in a brittle , ' kinked , ' condition , the hurry of the occasion ...
Page 27
... leaving behind us every piscatorial good wish . Such are the methods usually adopted when fly fishing for trout in English rivers . To recapitulate them , they are , broadly speaking : ( 1 ) fishing up - stream with the dry fly ; ( 2 ) ...
... leaving behind us every piscatorial good wish . Such are the methods usually adopted when fly fishing for trout in English rivers . To recapitulate them , they are , broadly speaking : ( 1 ) fishing up - stream with the dry fly ; ( 2 ) ...
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... leave of ' smuts ' and their evil influence over the trout . Before quitting altogether the subject of fishing with a dry fly - or , indeed , with the artificial fly at all -- a few words must be devoted to that most fascinating and ...
... leave of ' smuts ' and their evil influence over the trout . Before quitting altogether the subject of fishing with a dry fly - or , indeed , with the artificial fly at all -- a few words must be devoted to that most fascinating and ...
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