The TroutLongmans, Green, 1899 - 272 pages |
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... the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has in- formation been given as to the best methods of turning the contents of the bag to account . Each volume of the present Series will , therefore ,
... the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has in- formation been given as to the best methods of turning the contents of the bag to account . Each volume of the present Series will , therefore ,
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... method of cir- cumventing and killing them - not omitting the methods employed by the poacher - will be explained with special regard to modern de- velopments , and they will only be left when on the table in the most appetising forms ...
... method of cir- cumventing and killing them - not omitting the methods employed by the poacher - will be explained with special regard to modern de- velopments , and they will only be left when on the table in the most appetising forms ...
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... method of fishing is now usually practised . Is it fly fishing ? If so , do people fish up or down stream ? Do they use wet or dry fly ? Or do they sometimes attempt to attract their victims by means of the well- scoured worm ? It may ...
... method of fishing is now usually practised . Is it fly fishing ? If so , do people fish up or down stream ? Do they use wet or dry fly ? Or do they sometimes attempt to attract their victims by means of the well- scoured worm ? It may ...
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... methods of dry - fly fishing can be divided into three heads : - First , fishing for trout ' standing , ' i.e. fish which are near the top of the water looking about for flies , or other floating food . Secondly , fishing for fish which ...
... methods of dry - fly fishing can be divided into three heads : - First , fishing for trout ' standing , ' i.e. fish which are near the top of the water looking about for flies , or other floating food . Secondly , fishing for fish which ...
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... methods would be superfluous . Let us then , through the instrumentality of that most marvellously vivid medium — Imagination— transport ourselves to the bank of some crystally clear stream , place it where you will , in Hampshire or ...
... methods would be superfluous . Let us then , through the instrumentality of that most marvellously vivid medium — Imagination— transport ourselves to the bank of some crystally clear stream , place it where you will , in Hampshire or ...
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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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