The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Beings a Complete Practical Treatise on that Branch of the Art of Angling; with Plain and Copious Instructions for the Manufacture of Artificial FliesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 186 sider |
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Side 18
... variety , varies considerably in different localities and under different circumstances . In brooks the trout of the largest size are seldom above six ounces , while in rivers favourable to their growth , and protected from poachers ...
... variety , varies considerably in different localities and under different circumstances . In brooks the trout of the largest size are seldom above six ounces , while in rivers favourable to their growth , and protected from poachers ...
Side 42
... variety or range of intonation . It appears to us that the simple fact of fishes being , as a class , almost , if not entirely , mute , is of itself a logical ground for believing that their perceptions of sound are extremely dull ...
... variety or range of intonation . It appears to us that the simple fact of fishes being , as a class , almost , if not entirely , mute , is of itself a logical ground for believing that their perceptions of sound are extremely dull ...
Side 45
... variety , which haunt the water , the trout makes no invidious selection ; all , as their successive genera spring into exist- ence , in the wonderful economy of insect birth , become its greedy and welcome prey . By far the greater ...
... variety , which haunt the water , the trout makes no invidious selection ; all , as their successive genera spring into exist- ence , in the wonderful economy of insect birth , become its greedy and welcome prey . By far the greater ...
Side 57
... variety more decidedly yellow , with wings of nearly the same colour as the body . The spinners to which these duns change are of lighter and darker red in pro- portion to the yellow tint of their precursors . As the season advances ...
... variety more decidedly yellow , with wings of nearly the same colour as the body . The spinners to which these duns change are of lighter and darker red in pro- portion to the yellow tint of their precursors . As the season advances ...
Side 100
... variety . HERLS . This is the name given to the filaments which spring from each side of the stem of the peacock's tail feathers , and also to the plumlets of those of the ostrich . The peacock's herls should be of a copper - colour ...
... variety . HERLS . This is the name given to the filaments which spring from each side of the stem of the peacock's tail feathers , and also to the plumlets of those of the ostrich . The peacock's herls should be of a copper - colour ...
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The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Beings a Complete Practical ... George Philip Rigney Pulman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Beings a Complete Practical ... George Philip Rigney Pulman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Beings a Complete Practical ... George Philip Rigney Pulman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
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