The Fly-fisher's Entomology: With Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect, and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling-fishingLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - 132 pages |
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Page vi
... remarks wherever a variation in this respect is to be recommended . The fourth chapter of the work has also received an Introduction of some length , and the Plates have been corrected ; and where the meaning of the Author seemed ...
... remarks wherever a variation in this respect is to be recommended . The fourth chapter of the work has also received an Introduction of some length , and the Plates have been corrected ; and where the meaning of the Author seemed ...
Page xii
... remarks on other points more or less connected with the principal subject , will not be thought inappropriate . These form the subjects of the three preceding Chapters . Chiswick , June , 1836 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. OBSERVATIONS ON THE ...
... remarks on other points more or less connected with the principal subject , will not be thought inappropriate . These form the subjects of the three preceding Chapters . Chiswick , June , 1836 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. OBSERVATIONS ON THE ...
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... remarks , although not strictly applicable to all streams , may still , perhaps , not be found useless , and particularly in respect of brooks and small rivers . The great shyness of the Trout renders it extremely difficult to obtain ...
... remarks , although not strictly applicable to all streams , may still , perhaps , not be found useless , and particularly in respect of brooks and small rivers . The great shyness of the Trout renders it extremely difficult to obtain ...
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... REMARKS . This is the earliest fly in North Derbyshire . The tint of the wings is that of a cake of glue held between the eye and the sun . It is best made hackle - way , with the under covert feather of a woodcock's wing wound upon the ...
... REMARKS . This is the earliest fly in North Derbyshire . The tint of the wings is that of a cake of glue held between the eye and the sun . It is best made hackle - way , with the under covert feather of a woodcock's wing wound upon the ...
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... REMARKS . This elegant fly kills well till June made as follows : Body of yellow silk waxed , with a very little Blue Dun fur from rat , mouse , mole , or rabbit , spun upon the silk so that the yellow shows through . Body tapering from ...
... REMARKS . This elegant fly kills well till June made as follows : Body of yellow silk waxed , with a very little Blue Dun fur from rat , mouse , mole , or rabbit , spun upon the silk so that the yellow shows through . Body tapering from ...
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