The Universal Angler, Or, That Art Improved in All Its Parts, Especially in Fly-fishing: Describing the Several Sorts of Fresh-water Fish, with Their Proper Baits ...And sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1766 - 160 sidor |
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Sida 14 - Pike had devoured all the fish, except one large Carp, that weighed between nine and ten pounds, and that was bitten in several places. The Pike was then put into the canal again, together with abundance of...
Sida 14 - ... was observed by the gardener and workmen there to take the ducks, and other water-fowl, under water. Whereupon they shot magpies and crows, and threw them into the canal, which the Pike took before their eyes : of this they acquainted their lord, who, thereupon ordered the slaughterman to fling in calves' bellies, chickens' guts, and such like garbage to him, to prey upon ; but being soon after neglected, he died, as supposed, for want of food.
Sida iv - ... the ends of it in the flame of a candle ; do the same by the hair to which at any time you whip a hook.
Sida iii - Never raise a large fish out of the water by taking the hair to which your hook is fastened, or indeed any part of the line, into your hand ; but either put a landing-net under him, or, for want of that, your hat : you may indeed, in fly-fishing lay hold of your line to draw a fish to you, but this must be done with caution.
Sida 19 - Pike, but two or three yards before him, and guide it very gently towards his head, fixing your eyes full upon him till you have brought the...
Sida iv - Whenever you begin fishing, wet the ends of the joints of your rod; which, as it makes them swell, will prevent their loosening. And if you happen, with rain or otherwise, to wet your rod...
Sida 14 - About twelve months after, his lordship draw'd the canal, and found that this overgrown pike had devoured all the fish, except one large carp, that weighed between nine and ten pounds, and that was bitten in several places. The pike was then put into the canal again, together...
Sida 61 - ... as a snail moves, to that chub you intend to catch ; let your bait fall gently upon the water three or four inches before him, and he will infallibly take the bait.
Sida 69 - They may be easily taken with small worms or maggots ; by muddying the water and stirring up the sand with a pole you may draw them together in shoals, and by now and then throwing in a few chopped worms or maggots you may take great quantities of them with a bait on or near the ground ; they are usually scattered up and down the shallows of every river in the heat of the summer, but in autumn, when the weeds begin to grow sour or rot, and the weather begins to be cold, they keep together in the...
Sida 51 - But this is too long to ftand to your rods at one place, and it will fpoil your evening fport that day, which is this : About four of the clock in the afternoon...