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Page xvii
... Reel - Fish slowly with fly - Straight line - Hair casting - lines- Tailing fly with " Gentle " -Fishing near Geneva- Versoix - Eau de Lyon - Lines on Versoix - In PAGE 1 18 33 1 xviii CONTENTS . Trailing , side next shore best -
... Reel - Fish slowly with fly - Straight line - Hair casting - lines- Tailing fly with " Gentle " -Fishing near Geneva- Versoix - Eau de Lyon - Lines on Versoix - In PAGE 1 18 33 1 xviii CONTENTS . Trailing , side next shore best -
Page xviii
Cornwall Simeon. xviii CONTENTS . Trailing , side next shore best - In Sea - fishing , stern of boat better than bow • CHAPTER V. On Sea - fishing - Fine Tackle required - Best form of Tackle for general use " Tell - tale " or " Dodger ...
Cornwall Simeon. xviii CONTENTS . Trailing , side next shore best - In Sea - fishing , stern of boat better than bow • CHAPTER V. On Sea - fishing - Fine Tackle required - Best form of Tackle for general use " Tell - tale " or " Dodger ...
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... shore , if the water is sufficiently deep along the side next you , and the bank clear , one of about thirteen feet will generally be found to answer every purpose : but for use off weirs , or from the bank where the water runs shallow ...
... shore , if the water is sufficiently deep along the side next you , and the bank clear , one of about thirteen feet will generally be found to answer every purpose : but for use off weirs , or from the bank where the water runs shallow ...
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... shore . If not , it will be generally necessary to have them made fast to a line , which should be kept from sinking by a few small corks attached to it at intervals . The balls should be more or less inflated in proportion as there is ...
... shore . If not , it will be generally necessary to have them made fast to a line , which should be kept from sinking by a few small corks attached to it at intervals . The balls should be more or less inflated in proportion as there is ...
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... shore best - In Sea - fishing , stern of boat better than bow . I AM persuaded that for fly - fishing colour , not form , is the principal thing to be looked to in the selection of flies . This scarcely any one can doubt who has seen ...
... shore best - In Sea - fishing , stern of boat better than bow . I AM persuaded that for fly - fishing colour , not form , is the principal thing to be looked to in the selection of flies . This scarcely any one can doubt who has seen ...
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Page xiii - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, 'Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...