Piscatorial Reminiscences and Gleanings: To which is Added A Catalogue of Books on AnglingWilliam Pickering, 1835 - 255 pages |
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... salt may be used as to give the taste that may be required ; but this substance does not conduce to their preser- vation . In the preparation , it is barely necessary to open the fish , and to apply the sugar in the muscular part ...
... salt may be used as to give the taste that may be required ; but this substance does not conduce to their preser- vation . In the preparation , it is barely necessary to open the fish , and to apply the sugar in the muscular part ...
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... salt water haunts , and are earlier in the Severn , than any other English river . In January , 1833 , a very fine fish , nearly a yard in length , was discovered near the shore , close to where the warm water enters the river from the ...
... salt water haunts , and are earlier in the Severn , than any other English river . In January , 1833 , a very fine fish , nearly a yard in length , was discovered near the shore , close to where the warm water enters the river from the ...
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... salt and water , -the fish , when sufficiently roasted , is served up on the skewers , which are supposed to communi- cate a peculiar aromatic flavour - this method of dressing salmon is decidedly better than any other . Angler in ...
... salt and water , -the fish , when sufficiently roasted , is served up on the skewers , which are supposed to communi- cate a peculiar aromatic flavour - this method of dressing salmon is decidedly better than any other . Angler in ...
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... salt water . It is seldom found at a greater depth under water than two or three feet . The perch are a very prolific fish . Picot mentions a million of spawn in one fish . They are taken , of nine pounds weight , in Lough Corrib , and ...
... salt water . It is seldom found at a greater depth under water than two or three feet . The perch are a very prolific fish . Picot mentions a million of spawn in one fish . They are taken , of nine pounds weight , in Lough Corrib , and ...
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... salt , cut off their heads and tails , take out their inside with- out washing , fry them with yolks of eggs , flowers of cowslips and primroses , and a little tansie , and they prove excellent eating . Walton . LOACH . The Loach breeds ...
... salt , cut off their heads and tails , take out their inside with- out washing , fry them with yolks of eggs , flowers of cowslips and primroses , and a little tansie , and they prove excellent eating . Walton . LOACH . The Loach breeds ...
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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...