The TroutLongmans, Green, 1899 - 272 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 30
Page 9
... piece of water , and there , by throwing blindly , and without any idea of the size or nature of fish that may take your drowned fly , cast on the ' chuck and chance it ' principle . In the first case you pit your skill and piscatorial ...
... piece of water , and there , by throwing blindly , and without any idea of the size or nature of fish that may take your drowned fly , cast on the ' chuck and chance it ' principle . In the first case you pit your skill and piscatorial ...
Page 45
... piece of water in England or elsewhere . But to get back to our loch . As it is not a wild day , but there is a nice light breeze flitting about on the surface of the water , it will not be necessary to select too large a size of fly ...
... piece of water in England or elsewhere . But to get back to our loch . As it is not a wild day , but there is a nice light breeze flitting about on the surface of the water , it will not be necessary to select too large a size of fly ...
Page 71
... pieces any nets which may be used . These stakes should reach to within some eighteen inches of the top of the water and will interfere little with the fishing , while they prove an almost insuper- able bar to successful net - poaching ...
... pieces any nets which may be used . These stakes should reach to within some eighteen inches of the top of the water and will interfere little with the fishing , while they prove an almost insuper- able bar to successful net - poaching ...
Page 78
... piece of water . It is probable that the shortness of feed consequent upon the manner in which the reservoir was of necessity made , and the materials used , has been the main cause of this disastrous result ; as I conclude that ...
... piece of water . It is probable that the shortness of feed consequent upon the manner in which the reservoir was of necessity made , and the materials used , has been the main cause of this disastrous result ; as I conclude that ...
Page 80
... pieces of water , a few half - dams may , very likely , with advantage , be in- serted . These are constructed of two or three upright posts driven into the bottom of the river , to which planks are attached on the up - stream side ...
... pieces of water , a few half - dams may , very likely , with advantage , be in- serted . These are constructed of two or three upright posts driven into the bottom of the river , to which planks are attached on the up - stream side ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
&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
Popular passages
Page 29 - ALERTE': the Narrative of a Search for Treasure on the Desert Island of Trinidad. With 2 Maps and 23 Illustrations. Crown 8vo., y.
Page 17 - Roget — THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET, MD, FRS...
Page 13 - DEAD SHOT (THE): or, Sportsman's Complete Guide. Being a Treatise on the Use of the Gun, with Rudimentary and Finishing Lessons on the Art of Shooting Game of all kinds.
Page 12 - THE HARE. Natural History, by the Rev. HA MACPHERSON ; Shooting, by the Hon. GERALD LASCELLES ; Coursing, by CHARLES RICHARDSON ; Hunting, by J. S. GIBBONS and GH LONGMAN; Cookery, by Col. KENNEY HERBERT. With 9 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 55.
Page 5 - HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND. Popular Edition. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo., 51. Student's Edition. 2 vols. Cr. 8vo., 121. People's Edition. 4 vols. Cr. 8vo., 161. Cabinet Edition. 8 vols. Post 8vo., 48s. ' Edinburgh
Page 26 - INSECTS AT HOME : A Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits and Transformations.
Page 22 - Wordsworth and Coleridge.— A DESCRIPTION OF THE WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE POSSESSION OF Mr. T. NORTON LONGMAN.
Page 4 - HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES: THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1638-1870. By WEB Du Bois, Ph.D. 8vo. , 7*.
Page 30 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.