Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... leaves the sea for the rivers in the summer or autumn , according to the heat of the season , and surmounts most surprising obstacles to attain its object ; having fulfilled which , equal anxiety is displayed to return to the sea . The ...
... leaves the sea for the rivers in the summer or autumn , according to the heat of the season , and surmounts most surprising obstacles to attain its object ; having fulfilled which , equal anxiety is displayed to return to the sea . The ...
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... leaves the sea , it is very poor , and of bad taste ; but as soon as it goes up the rivers , it fattens and becomes as large as salmon . In Prussia it is smoke - dried , and sold to the Arabians , who eat it with dates . The shad in ...
... leaves the sea , it is very poor , and of bad taste ; but as soon as it goes up the rivers , it fattens and becomes as large as salmon . In Prussia it is smoke - dried , and sold to the Arabians , who eat it with dates . The shad in ...
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... leaves of which the trolled bait ( gently cast ) is seldom refused . They will take almost any kind of live bait , but the best is the gudgeon . Always , in live bait trolling , give the pike time to pouch . Their voracity is such ...
... leaves of which the trolled bait ( gently cast ) is seldom refused . They will take almost any kind of live bait , but the best is the gudgeon . Always , in live bait trolling , give the pike time to pouch . Their voracity is such ...
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... leaves , the bait itself hanging within the water , over the edge of such a leaf ; this bait must be a red worm , with a gentle to cover the point of the hook ; when you observe the shot . drawn from the leaf , give the fish time to ...
... leaves , the bait itself hanging within the water , over the edge of such a leaf ; this bait must be a red worm , with a gentle to cover the point of the hook ; when you observe the shot . drawn from the leaf , give the fish time to ...
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... leaves . Zoological Journal , No. 14 . Some Indian fish live out of water for a consi- derable time ; numbers of travellers have confirmed the fact ; it is owing to the peculiar construction of their gills , by which they are enabled to ...
... leaves . Zoological Journal , No. 14 . Some Indian fish live out of water for a consi- derable time ; numbers of travellers have confirmed the fact ; it is owing to the peculiar construction of their gills , by which they are enabled to ...
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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...