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Side 32
In fishing a salmon - cast , throw a point down stream , bringing your hook
gradually round by short jerks , but always keep it two points against the stream ,
and never bring it in so straight towards you as in troutfishing . In dead water ,
when a ...
In fishing a salmon - cast , throw a point down stream , bringing your hook
gradually round by short jerks , but always keep it two points against the stream ,
and never bring it in so straight towards you as in troutfishing . In dead water ,
when a ...
Side 35
The salmon almost always keep the channel * or deep parts of a river ; so , if it is
fordable , you will often have to change from one side to the other , as the
heaviest stream alters its course . In small waters this is not difficult , but in great
rivers ...
The salmon almost always keep the channel * or deep parts of a river ; so , if it is
fordable , you will often have to change from one side to the other , as the
heaviest stream alters its course . In small waters this is not difficult , but in great
rivers ...
Side 38
In rapid running water , a good lump of bait is more easily seen from a distance ,
and if a fresh worm be put on the point of the hook the imposture cannot well be
detected in the moving stream . Lead the line to reach within a yard or so of the ...
In rapid running water , a good lump of bait is more easily seen from a distance ,
and if a fresh worm be put on the point of the hook the imposture cannot well be
detected in the moving stream . Lead the line to reach within a yard or so of the ...
Side 40
About forty yards below , a tree that jutted over a deep part of the river prevented
my leading him down stream , so he had every advantage , and I must say
seemed inclined to take it . Sometimes he would sulk , and when with great
trouble I ...
About forty yards below , a tree that jutted over a deep part of the river prevented
my leading him down stream , so he had every advantage , and I must say
seemed inclined to take it . Sometimes he would sulk , and when with great
trouble I ...
Side 152
He turned his head down stream , and dashed along , making my reel ring .
There was now a race different ways , my son for the post - boy , and I with the
fish . Jehu came puffing like a grampus , ready to gripe his prey . He soon saw
that his ...
He turned his head down stream , and dashed along , making my reel ring .
There was now a race different ways , my son for the post - boy , and I with the
fish . Jehu came puffing like a grampus , ready to gripe his prey . He soon saw
that his ...
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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,