Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... bank , where I stood ; but the bank unfortunately sloped down to the water's edge , and my bent pin having no barb to take a firm hold , the trout slipped off , and spanged down the bank , and in an instant , to my unutterable grief ...
... bank , where I stood ; but the bank unfortunately sloped down to the water's edge , and my bent pin having no barb to take a firm hold , the trout slipped off , and spanged down the bank , and in an instant , to my unutterable grief ...
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... banks of that fishy loch we stood eying the sun- shine beautifully warming the breezy dark moss- water , we unscrewed the brass head of our walk- ing cane to convert it into a rod , when lo ! the hollow was full of emptiness ; we had ...
... banks of that fishy loch we stood eying the sun- shine beautifully warming the breezy dark moss- water , we unscrewed the brass head of our walk- ing cane to convert it into a rod , when lo ! the hollow was full of emptiness ; we had ...
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... banks of the Alun ( a beautiful little stream that flows down from the Welsh hills , and throws itself into the Dee ) , my attention was attracted to a group seated on the margin . On approaching , I found it to consist of a veteran ...
... banks of the Alun ( a beautiful little stream that flows down from the Welsh hills , and throws itself into the Dee ) , my attention was attracted to a group seated on the margin . On approaching , I found it to consist of a veteran ...
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... bank , a little back from the road , with a small garden in front , stocked with kitchen herbs , and adorned with a few flowers . The whole front of the cottage was overrun by a honeysuckle ; on the top was a ship for a weather - cock ...
... bank , a little back from the road , with a small garden in front , stocked with kitchen herbs , and adorned with a few flowers . The whole front of the cottage was overrun by a honeysuckle ; on the top was a ship for a weather - cock ...
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... bank . Sir Walter Scott . Salmon Fishing with Spear . - The salmon is caught with a spear , which they dart at him as he swims on the surface of the water . It is customary also to catch him with a candle and lantern , or wisp of straw ...
... bank . Sir Walter Scott . Salmon Fishing with Spear . - The salmon is caught with a spear , which they dart at him as he swims on the surface of the water . It is customary also to catch him with a candle and lantern , or wisp of straw ...
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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.