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... streams " -than for the actual fishing ? I verily believe he has done as much to promote a genial and healthy love of Nature as any man who ever lived . That Fishing has , by thus leading up to the study of Natural History , acquired a ...
... streams " -than for the actual fishing ? I verily believe he has done as much to promote a genial and healthy love of Nature as any man who ever lived . That Fishing has , by thus leading up to the study of Natural History , acquired a ...
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... stream to land him ; or again your hooks may get foul under the camp - sheeting , when you may save your tackle by going round and get- ting a pull on it from the opposite direction . At the close , or more frequently at the commence ...
... stream to land him ; or again your hooks may get foul under the camp - sheeting , when you may save your tackle by going round and get- ting a pull on it from the opposite direction . At the close , or more frequently at the commence ...
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... where there is not much stream , or the water is shallow . The accomplishment is however a very valuable one , enabling the proficient , as it does , to fish comfortably under many circum- 16 HINTS - COLOUR OF LANDING - HANDLE . [
... where there is not much stream , or the water is shallow . The accomplishment is however a very valuable one , enabling the proficient , as it does , to fish comfortably under many circum- 16 HINTS - COLOUR OF LANDING - HANDLE . [
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... prove my theory : -I was spinning , from a punt , down the reach of the Thames just above Maidenhead , where the stream is not particularly rapid , and not more than four or five feet deep , CH . II . ] SPIN SLOWLY - STRIKE JACK.
... prove my theory : -I was spinning , from a punt , down the reach of the Thames just above Maidenhead , where the stream is not particularly rapid , and not more than four or five feet deep , CH . II . ] SPIN SLOWLY - STRIKE JACK.
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... stream , and took no notice of it . It was , however , almost im- mediately repeated , when I instinctively struck , and found to my surprise that it proceeded from " no waiter , but a Knight Templar , " a good Trout of over three ...
... stream , and took no notice of it . It was , however , almost im- mediately repeated , when I instinctively struck , and found to my surprise that it proceeded from " no waiter , but a Knight Templar , " a good Trout of over three ...
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