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angle angler artificial flies bait barrel birds bite body bottom breed brown buck called Carp Chub cock cock's hackle colour common pheasant Dace dark deer Driffield dubbing duck Duke of Athol Eels fasten feather feed fish flies forks fowl gentle gimp give grey greyhounds ground grouse Gudgeon hair half hare hart head hog's wool hole hook hounds inches long keep kill latter end length mallard manner minnow mohair month mouth neatly noose observe partridges pheasant piece Pike places ponds pounds pounds weight powder proper quantity river Tay rivers Roach Salmon season shank shoot shooter shot side silk-worm gut spawn sport sportsman spring stream strong tail take your needle taken Tench thick three or four throw Trout wax your silk weeds whilst whip wind wings woodcock worms yards yellow young
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Page 91 - 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 ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art.
Page 149 - ... be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
Page 83 - Nor are they safe from their own kindred race : The Pike, fell tyrant of the liquid plain, With rav'nous waste devours his fellow-train; Yet, howsoe'er with raging famine piu'd, The Tench he spares, a salutary kind.
Page 147 - And if any person shall take, kill, or destroy, or attempt to take, kill, or destroy, any fish in any river or stream, pond, pool, or other water, (not being in any park or paddock, or in any garden, orchard, or yard, adjoining or belonging to any dwelling-house, but...
Page 91 - 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. So the gay lady, with expensive care, Borrows the pride of land, of sea, and air ; Furs, pearls, and plumes, the glittering thing displays, Dazzles our eyes, and easy hearts betrays.
Page 149 - Any spawn, fry, or brood of fish, or any unsizeable fish, or fish out of season, or any smelt not five inches long...
Page 88 - ... then take a piece of lead of a conical figure two inches high, and two in diameter at the base, with a hook at the apex, or point; tie your three parcels of hair into one knot, and to this by the hook hang the weight.
Page 187 - ... some secret place, where you may see and not be seen, listen awhile if you can hear the partridges call ; if you do, answer them again in the same...
Page 77 - The head of the pond should be at the lowest part of the ground, and the trench of the floodgate or sluice should have a pretty swift fall, that the water may not be too long in running out when it is to be emptied. If more ponds than one are to be made at a time, it will be...
Page 93 - Feathers are absolutely necessary for the wings and other parts of flies : get therefore feathers from the back and other parts of the wild mallard, or drake ; the feathers of a partridge, especially those red ones that are in the tail ; feathers from a cock -pheasant's breast...