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Side vi
John Colquhoun. Page the water . — Trolling with par.— With minnow . — Worm
angling for salmon . — Daintiness of salmon .-- Their occasional greediness.-
Causes which prevent fish from rising to a fly . 27 . “ IT'S A FAR CRY TO LOCH
OW ...
John Colquhoun. Page the water . — Trolling with par.— With minnow . — Worm
angling for salmon . — Daintiness of salmon .-- Their occasional greediness.-
Causes which prevent fish from rising to a fly . 27 . “ IT'S A FAR CRY TO LOCH
OW ...
Side 5
... there is a muirland lochan , about a mile long by half a mile broad , called in
Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east , connected by a rocky
brook , is Loch Bah ( the Drowning Loch ) , about three miles long by a mile
broad .
... there is a muirland lochan , about a mile long by half a mile broad , called in
Gaelic , Lochan Nahachalach ; and a little to the east , connected by a rocky
brook , is Loch Bah ( the Drowning Loch ) , about three miles long by a mile
broad .
Side 7
The fat rosy sailed in the Loch Goil steamboat , on my way to these favourite
haunts . I had also put up two trolling - rods in compliment to the salmo - feroxes
of Loch Awe . We left the Bromie - law at seven o'clock on a fresh sunny morning
...
The fat rosy sailed in the Loch Goil steamboat , on my way to these favourite
haunts . I had also put up two trolling - rods in compliment to the salmo - feroxes
of Loch Awe . We left the Bromie - law at seven o'clock on a fresh sunny morning
...
Side 55
As the “ weedy loch ” was only half an hour's walk from Inverary , I took
advantage of the first favourable day to give it a trial , both with fly and bait , for
one of these monsters . I thought my guide was joking when he pointed to a
shallow hole ...
As the “ weedy loch ” was only half an hour's walk from Inverary , I took
advantage of the first favourable day to give it a trial , both with fly and bait , for
one of these monsters . I thought my guide was joking when he pointed to a
shallow hole ...
Side 56
had an account of a Loch Fine herring - fisher's life , from Angus , a frank athletic
young man , the skipper and part owner of a boat . The fleet of skows , which are
always hauled up , high and dry , to refit after the season is over , were all ...
had an account of a Loch Fine herring - fisher's life , from Angus , a frank athletic
young man , the skipper and part owner of a boat . The fleet of skows , which are
always hauled up , high and dry , to refit after the season is over , were all ...
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Side 1 - Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched love of novelty which originates in selfishness, shallowness, and conceit, and which especially characterizes all vulgar minds, there is set in the deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age that the eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time...
Side i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,