The Angler's Guide: Being a Complete Practical Treatise on Angling : Containing the Whole Art of Trolling, Bottom-fishing, Fly-fishing, and Trimmer-angling, Founded on Forty Years' Practice and Observation |
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angler angling artificial flies bait's baited hook banks Barbel belly best bait bite Bleak blood worms boat body bottom Bream Carp cast caught CHAP Chub colour cork Croydon canals Dace deep draw eddies Eels enter the point fasten feed fins float frequently gentles gorge greaves ground ground-bait Gudgeons gymp hackle Hoddesdon holes inches Jack and Pike Jack or Pike keep killing bait Lamprey live bait London loop miles Minnow months mouth needle numbers offence particularly Perch ponds pouch pound weight pounds Prickleback quill red worms ring river Lea river Thames Roach Roach fishing Salmon season seldom shallows shank side silk sink small fish small piece snap sniggling spawn sport spring stream strike strong summer swim tackle shops tail take a bait taken Tench trimmer trolling Trout twisted weather weeds weighing whip winch wind wings yards
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Page 178 - To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require: The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail. Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, And lends the growing insect proper wings : Silks of all colours must their aid impart, And every fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 240 - The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. Now Cancer glows with Phoebus...
Page xx - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up ; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 183 - Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook, Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly ; And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear.
Page 277 - Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to...
Page 276 - ... one or more of his Majesty's justices of the peace...
Page 183 - With sullen plunge. At once he darts along, Deep-struck, and runs out all the lengthen'd line ; Then seeks the farthest ooze, the sheltering weed, The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode ; And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool, Indignant of the guile.
Page 164 - Nor trowl for pikes, dispeoplers of the lake. Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line : Let me, less cruel, cast the feather'd hook With pliant rod athwart the pebbled brook, Silent along the mazy margin stray, And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey.
Page 243 - But crystal currents glide within their bounds ; The finny brood their wonted haunts forsake, Float in the sun, and skim along the lake ; With frequent leap they range the shallow streams, Their silver coats reflect the dazzling beams : Now let the fisherman his toils prepare, And arm himself with every wat'ry snare ; His hooks, his lines, peruse with careful eye, Increase his tackle, and his rod re-tie.
Page xxi - And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.