Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... river the minutest midge or gnat as soon as it drops , and the lively worm is taken with eagerness , when one that is dead or diseased , is refused , as much pro- bably by the exercise of the olfactory , as of the visual powers . The ...
... river the minutest midge or gnat as soon as it drops , and the lively worm is taken with eagerness , when one that is dead or diseased , is refused , as much pro- bably by the exercise of the olfactory , as of the visual powers . The ...
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... Rivers , and at another of the Ocean . Of the importance of fish to mankind , the anecdotical part of this volume affords sufficient proof . From the earliest times the inhabitants of the sea - shore have been almost supported INTRODUCTION ...
... Rivers , and at another of the Ocean . Of the importance of fish to mankind , the anecdotical part of this volume affords sufficient proof . From the earliest times the inhabitants of the sea - shore have been almost supported INTRODUCTION ...
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... river water every other day , with wheat flour , grated bread for roach , dace , bleak , & c . besides pike , eel , and flounders , in other pans . Gent . Mag . lxxiii . 1108 . Blumenbach , in his " Manual of Natural His- tory ...
... river water every other day , with wheat flour , grated bread for roach , dace , bleak , & c . besides pike , eel , and flounders , in other pans . Gent . Mag . lxxiii . 1108 . Blumenbach , in his " Manual of Natural His- tory ...
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... river beetle , which lives ha- bitually on the eggs of fishes , climbs sometimes in the evening , on the reeds , high enough for its flight , and then takes wing . One was caught whilst flying , and being put into water , it emitted the ...
... river beetle , which lives ha- bitually on the eggs of fishes , climbs sometimes in the evening , on the reeds , high enough for its flight , and then takes wing . One was caught whilst flying , and being put into water , it emitted the ...
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... river Ayr , with a bent pin for a hook , as Christopher North has described so graphically and well ; but instead of a minnow or a beardie ( the loach or the stone loach of the south ) , I hooked a large trout ; my yarn thread was ...
... river Ayr , with a bent pin for a hook , as Christopher North has described so graphically and well ; but instead of a minnow or a beardie ( the loach or the stone loach of the south ) , I hooked a large trout ; my yarn thread was ...
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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 printed quantity 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 worm 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 192 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth.
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...