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Side 35
With these reduced flies , and no glaring sunshine on the water , a fish may now
and then be taken in the pools , when there would have been no chance with the
smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ...
With these reduced flies , and no glaring sunshine on the water , a fish may now
and then be taken in the pools , when there would have been no chance with the
smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ...
Side 73
Watched their simultaneous dive . Made my run , and dropped both . Took boat
for Inch Moan , as the straits were now cleared of fowl for this day . Only three
moss ducks on a green point of the south side . A long stalk , and distant chance .
Watched their simultaneous dive . Made my run , and dropped both . Took boat
for Inch Moan , as the straits were now cleared of fowl for this day . Only three
moss ducks on a green point of the south side . A long stalk , and distant chance .
Side 75
Only one chance at a mud mallard , and slew him on Inch Moan . ... Only two
chances , ( they certainly might be called so , for the mist made it all chance
together , ) one at wigeon , which I stalked by sound of their purring and whistling
on Mid ...
Only one chance at a mud mallard , and slew him on Inch Moan . ... Only two
chances , ( they certainly might be called so , for the mist made it all chance
together , ) one at wigeon , which I stalked by sound of their purring and whistling
on Mid ...
Side 76
The next chance was a flying right and left out of the old watercourse of the Fruin .
Killed a duck , and mortally wounded a drake . Both long shots . Marked down the
drake , which separated from the flock . With my glass , I perceived a fine ...
The next chance was a flying right and left out of the old watercourse of the Fruin .
Killed a duck , and mortally wounded a drake . Both long shots . Marked down the
drake , which separated from the flock . With my glass , I perceived a fine ...
Side 81
It is curious that the frost lasted about the same time both years , and , by the
merest chance , the thaw began , in both ... themselves either year ; but , had the
storm been more severe , we should , no doubt , have had some fine chances at
...
It is curious that the frost lasted about the same time both years , and , by the
merest chance , the thaw began , in both ... themselves either year ; but , had the
storm been more severe , we should , no doubt , have had some fine chances at
...
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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,