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Page 38
... Maltby , our Vice - Consul at Brussels , has within the last few years taken out of some pieces of water , rented by him in the neighbourhood of that city , Carp weighing no less than thirty - three pounds ; and a friend of mine was ...
... Maltby , our Vice - Consul at Brussels , has within the last few years taken out of some pieces of water , rented by him in the neighbourhood of that city , Carp weighing no less than thirty - three pounds ; and a friend of mine was ...
Page 39
Cornwall Simeon. CH . III . ] MANAGEMENT OF FISH BY MR MALTBY . 39 and rearing fish with a degree of attention rarely bestowed on it , I am enabled to give the mode adopted by him in the management of his fish , together with some other ...
Cornwall Simeon. CH . III . ] MANAGEMENT OF FISH BY MR MALTBY . 39 and rearing fish with a degree of attention rarely bestowed on it , I am enabled to give the mode adopted by him in the management of his fish , together with some other ...
Page 40
... Maltby purchases the stores of Carp requisite to keep up his supply , when they are two years old , the weight of each being then from two to four ounces , and their price thir- teen to fourteen francs a hundred . These he puts into one ...
... Maltby purchases the stores of Carp requisite to keep up his supply , when they are two years old , the weight of each being then from two to four ounces , and their price thir- teen to fourteen francs a hundred . These he puts into one ...
Page 42
... Maltby marked and transferred from the large lake of Boilsfut to that of La Hulpe , forty - five Jack , averaging one with another two pounds each ; none of them weighing more than three pounds . In eighteen months from the time when ...
... Maltby marked and transferred from the large lake of Boilsfut to that of La Hulpe , forty - five Jack , averaging one with another two pounds each ; none of them weighing more than three pounds . In eighteen months from the time when ...
Page 43
... Maltby imagines , in consequence of there being a smaller body of water running through it , and that colder , from being nearer the source . At the commencement of the year 1857 , he had purchased and turned into the Lake at Boilsfut ...
... Maltby imagines , in consequence of there being a smaller body of water running through it , and that colder , from being nearer the source . At the commencement of the year 1857 , he had purchased and turned into the Lake at Boilsfut ...
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appear bait believe birds boat bob-fly Boilsfut breed BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT Brown Trout Carp casting-line catch caterpillar caught cloth coast colour Common Pheasant Crown 8vo doubt eggs fancy fastened Fcap feed fisherman Flat-fish flies flight foxes gaff gimp Gulls hand head hooks inches induced insects instance Isle of Wight Jack keeper kill-devil killed knot La Hulpe larvæ leave length Loch Creran Loch Garry loop Maltby mentioned mouth Natural History nest never occasionally Partridges perfectly perhaps Pheasant pond pounds pounds weight probably pull quarters river Roach round Salmo ferox Salmon scarcely Scotch Sea Trout sea-fishing sea-loch seen shew Shooting shore shot side spawning species spinning sport spring Stock Dove stream sufficiently tackle tail taken throw tion told trailing unfrequently Versoix weather weight whilst fishing young
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