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 Published in London in 1851, this informative volume contains a complete practical treatise onthe art of angling, with plain and copious instructions for the manufacture of artificial flies. |
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... NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS . BY G. P. R. PULMAN , AUTHOR OF 66 RUSTIC SKETCHES , " THE BOOK OF THE AXE , " ETC. · " The most important principle , perhaps , in life , is to have a pursuit , -a useful one if possible , and at all events an ...
... NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS . BY G. P. R. PULMAN , AUTHOR OF 66 RUSTIC SKETCHES , " THE BOOK OF THE AXE , " ETC. · " The most important principle , perhaps , in life , is to have a pursuit , -a useful one if possible , and at all events an ...
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... numerous tribes of fishes which inhabit the streams of Britain , the trout is the hand- somest , the best , and the most sought after by the fly - fisher . It belongs to the genus Salmo , which is included in the Cuvierian order Mala ...
... numerous tribes of fishes which inhabit the streams of Britain , the trout is the hand- somest , the best , and the most sought after by the fly - fisher . It belongs to the genus Salmo , which is included in the Cuvierian order Mala ...
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... numerous feeders . We refer to the reservoir of the canal at Chard , in Somersetshire , a piece of water covering some seventy acres , in which common trout weighing six and eight pounds were taken with the net within two years after ...
... numerous feeders . We refer to the reservoir of the canal at Chard , in Somersetshire , a piece of water covering some seventy acres , in which common trout weighing six and eight pounds were taken with the net within two years after ...
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... numerous obstructions which constantly present themselves in the element in which it lives , should yet be deficient in organs so indispensable to this freedom of motion as those of seeing . The sight of birds is exquisitely acute ; and ...
... numerous obstructions which constantly present themselves in the element in which it lives , should yet be deficient in organs so indispensable to this freedom of motion as those of seeing . The sight of birds is exquisitely acute ; and ...
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... numerous experiments with fire - arms and otherwise has con- firmed us in the opinion which our own experience had long before induced . Who ever dreamed of imputing his piscatory success to the observance of taciturnity , admirable ...
... numerous experiments with fire - arms and otherwise has con- firmed us in the opinion which our own experience had long before induced . Who ever dreamed of imputing his piscatory success to the observance of taciturnity , admirable ...
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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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