The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on that Branch of the Art of Angling : with Plain and Copious Instructions for the Manufacture of Artificial Flies, Illustrated by Numerous EngravingsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851 - 186 sider |
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... windy weather . To the same family belong also the yellow sally , appearing in May ; the willow fly - a large insect , though much smaller than the stone fly , and easily recog- nised by its habit of fluttering about on the sur- face of ...
... windy weather . To the same family belong also the yellow sally , appearing in May ; the willow fly - a large insect , though much smaller than the stone fly , and easily recog- nised by its habit of fluttering about on the sur- face of ...
Side 64
... wind , nor can it well , indeed , be used at all in very windy weather . Some peculiar properties it certainly does possess , and among them are the undesirable ones of tiring the arm , failing to strike or play a fish well , and ...
... wind , nor can it well , indeed , be used at all in very windy weather . Some peculiar properties it certainly does possess , and among them are the undesirable ones of tiring the arm , failing to strike or play a fish well , and ...
Side 78
... wind , although this , of course , may be removed by rejecting the extreme fine end , and substituting a point . A light and fine line , as we have before implied , is obviously the proper adaptation to a small and pliable rod , and the ...
... wind , although this , of course , may be removed by rejecting the extreme fine end , and substituting a point . A light and fine line , as we have before implied , is obviously the proper adaptation to a small and pliable rod , and the ...
Side 81
... wind too freely , or the line will be apt to over - run , and to be constantly getting en- tangled from the too easy and unchecked revo- lution . This over - freedom of motion is usually guarded against either by the application of a 66 ...
... wind too freely , or the line will be apt to over - run , and to be constantly getting en- tangled from the too easy and unchecked revo- lution . This over - freedom of motion is usually guarded against either by the application of a 66 ...
Side 110
... wind the silk up the bare shank in close coils ( that is , in such a manner that each successive turn of the silk may lie side by side with the last , ) to the point f ( fig . 1. ) . II . The Catch . - Retain the silk in that po- sition ...
... wind the silk up the bare shank in close coils ( that is , in such a manner that each successive turn of the silk may lie side by side with the last , ) to the point f ( fig . 1. ) . II . The Catch . - Retain the silk in that po- sition ...
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The Vade-mecum of Fly-fishing for Trout: Beings a Complete Practical ... George Philip Rigney Pulman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1851 |
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