Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... catch no fish , yet he hath a wholesome walk to the brooke's side , pleasant shade by the sweet silver streames , he hath good aire , and sweet smells of fine fresh meadow flowres , he hears the melody of birds , and sees the water ...
... catch no fish , yet he hath a wholesome walk to the brooke's side , pleasant shade by the sweet silver streames , he hath good aire , and sweet smells of fine fresh meadow flowres , he hears the melody of birds , and sees the water ...
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... catching a salmon of twenty - eight pound weight . Awe seems to be a delightful place , and good accommodation there for brothers of the angle . The disciple of Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little ...
... catching a salmon of twenty - eight pound weight . Awe seems to be a delightful place , and good accommodation there for brothers of the angle . The disciple of Walton who has once indulged in salmon fishing , will feel little ...
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... catch him with a candle and lantern , or wisp of straw set on fire ; for the fish naturally following the light , are struck with the spear , or taken in a net spread for that purpose , and lifted with a sudden jerk from the bottom ...
... catch him with a candle and lantern , or wisp of straw set on fire ; for the fish naturally following the light , are struck with the spear , or taken in a net spread for that purpose , and lifted with a sudden jerk from the bottom ...
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... catching the salmon is ingenious , as practised by the natives of the Columbia river . A certain part of the river is enclosed by stakes about twelve feet high , and extended about thirty feet from the shore ; a netting of rods is ...
... catching the salmon is ingenious , as practised by the natives of the Columbia river . A certain part of the river is enclosed by stakes about twelve feet high , and extended about thirty feet from the shore ; a netting of rods is ...
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... Catching trout , native tact . - A friend with whom I frequently spent days together in angling excursions , retired from London to reside at Hex- ham , and had a good assortment of the best London - drest flies , rod , & c . This ...
... Catching trout , native tact . - A friend with whom I frequently spent days together in angling excursions , retired from London to reside at Hex- ham , and had a good assortment of the best London - drest flies , rod , & c . This ...
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2nd edit 3rd edit 4th edit Angler in Ireland animals appears Art of Angling bait barbel begynneth boat boke bones bottom bream carp catch caught chub colour dace Dagenham delight Editor eels fastened feet long fins Fish and Fish Fish Ponds fisher fishermen five flies fly-fishing four fresh water fysshyng Gent gentle gentleman grayling gudgeon Hawking Hist hook hundred Hunting huntynge Ichthyophagi Imprynted at London inches in length inches long inhabitants Ireland John Hawkins lake Lond mackerel Method of Fishing minnow mouth native natural Pallas Pennant perch pike Piscatory pounds weight quantity red worm resembles river River Thames roach salmon salt sea fish season shad small fish smelt spawn species Sporting Mag stickleback streams sturgeon surface swimming tackle tail taken tench Thames Treatise trolling trout Walton weighed wood-cut Wynkyn de Worde young
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Page 8 - ... and put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of a certain number of days, they break the shell in water warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently hatched, and are kept in pure fresh water till they are large enough to be thrown into a pond with the old fish.
Page 19 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 20 - Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weeles, baites, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawkes. When they draw the fish upon the banke, saith Nic.
Page 44 - Some years since a herdsman, on a very sultry day in July, while looking for a missing sheep, observed an Eagle posted on a bank that overhung a pool. Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued : when the...
Page 182 - Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with their hair on end, and terror and agony in their eyes ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy.