Chalkstream and Moorland: Thoughts on Trout-fishingSmith, Elder & Company, 1911 - 251 pages |
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... give years of our lives to attain the art which they possess . Perhaps in time we reach the same degree of skill and ... gives those who love it such great pleasure and keeps them young . Most , but not all , anglers are lovers of ...
... give years of our lives to attain the art which they possess . Perhaps in time we reach the same degree of skill and ... gives those who love it such great pleasure and keeps them young . Most , but not all , anglers are lovers of ...
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... gives flavour to the pleasure of angling , but angling com- petitions for prizes are detestable . A man may enjoy a day's fishing up to a certain point though he has failed to catch anything ; but if he maintains that he does not care ...
... gives flavour to the pleasure of angling , but angling com- petitions for prizes are detestable . A man may enjoy a day's fishing up to a certain point though he has failed to catch anything ; but if he maintains that he does not care ...
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... give a clue to the inner recesses of their characters . If we split the pleasures of angling into their simplest com- ponent parts , we shall certainly find them placed by different fishermen in different orders . Some would place first ...
... give a clue to the inner recesses of their characters . If we split the pleasures of angling into their simplest com- ponent parts , we shall certainly find them placed by different fishermen in different orders . Some would place first ...
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... gives the angler his real pleasure . The more difficult the fishing , the more shy and cunning the trout , the greater the fisherman's pleasure at his skill . It is because big trout are much more difficult to catch than small , that ...
... gives the angler his real pleasure . The more difficult the fishing , the more shy and cunning the trout , the greater the fisherman's pleasure at his skill . It is because big trout are much more difficult to catch than small , that ...
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... Claudius Ælianus , who taught rhetoric at Rome in the third century A.D. , describes the flies called Hippurus ( which appar- ently are not mayflies ) , and gives an account of the catching of fish ( believed to be trout.
... Claudius Ælianus , who taught rhetoric at Rome in the third century A.D. , describes the flies called Hippurus ( which appar- ently are not mayflies ) , and gives an account of the catching of fish ( believed to be trout.
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Page 12 - Well, Jack, what's the matter with you'?' Sailor. 'Lost my right arm, your honour.' Nelson paused, looked down at his own empty sleeve, then at the sailor, and said playfully, 'Well, Jack, then you and I are spoiled for fishermen — cheer up, my brave fellow.
Page 33 - Let a dry fly be substituted for the wet one, the line switched a few times through the air to throw off its superabundant moisture, a judicious cast made just above the rising fish, and the fly allowed to float towards and over them, and the chances are ten to one that it will be seized as readily as a living insect. This dry fly, we must remark, should be an imitation of the natural fly on which the fish are feeding...
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Page 14 - I trust you will confess the time bestowed upon angling has not been thrown away. The most important principle perhaps in life is to have a pursuit — a useful one if possible, and at all events an innocent one.
Page 94 - When you have got hold of a good fish, which is not very tractable, if you are married, gentle reader, think of your wife, who, like the fish, is united to you by very tender ties, which can only end with her death, or her going into weeds. If you are single, the loss of the fish, when you thought the prize your own, may remind you of some more serious disappointment.