A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch with Explanatory Plates, EtcLongmans, Green, 1876 - 508 Seiten |
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Seite 295 - Angling,' observes this gentleman, makes the remark that ' As the grayling is such a sporting fish, and so free to tise to all comers, it is a disgrace and a shame to treat him like a poacher, with worms and such abominations. Now, this may be all very well when you are dealing with the denizens of Hampshire or Derbyshire streams, where fly-fishing may be carried on almost into winter with reasonable expectation of success ; but anybody who pays a visit to any of our Yorkshire rivers after about...
Seite 341 - ... or unlaid sewing silk), in large flies fur is often used ; broadish silver tinsel ; black hackle over three parts of the body, gallina (the dark feather with the large round spots, not the small speckled grey) on the shoulder; wing, double...
Seite 334 - There are many persons who hold that half a dozen flies are enough to kill salmon an any river in the kingdom, and who will despise the notion of such an extended list of flies. To such irreverend scoffers and heretical unbelievers I have nothing to say.
Seite 191 - dearly beloved pupil, do not listen to delusive talk of hare's ears and yellows, or hare's ear and purple, or green, or what not, or blues of all sorts of shades, or fancy flies of endless hue. Some of these certainly kill, but it is rather a fluke if they do, while the odds are that they don't.
Seite 339 - The body, for the lower half, is black silk ; the upper, black pig's wool, very bushy towards the shoulder, and picked out at the breast ; hackle, golden-olive, with claret at the shoulder ; tinsel, broad silver ; tail, scarlet ibis and woodduck ; wing, five or six toppings with double jungle- cock on either side.
Seite 209 - Jackson does not give this fly till June, though all other authors introduce it in April. Nevertheless, he does give its transformation or imago in May. It comes on whenever there is a glint of sunshine on the cold and windy days towards the end of April, and the trout appear very adverse to let any of them escape. The angler may be wondering at the dullness of the fish. All perhaps has been quiet ; he has hardly taken a fish or seen a rise for half an hour. Suddenly he hears a ' plop,' then another....
Seite 336 - Tug, silver twist and ruby floss ; tail, fibres of bustard j hackle, tippet and a topping ; body, composite, viz., two turns of medium blue, ditto of dark orange, about four or five of bright scarlet, and two more of blue pig's wool ; over this silver and gold twist side by side ; a red claret hackle, commencing from the orange wool, the blue wool picked out in longish fibres at the shoulder, over this a bustard hackle, then the wing, and over that a yellow hackle. The wing is composed of white ribbed...
Seite 243 - Spider. — This is made with the small feather of the cock starling, dressed with brown silk. 2. The Red Spider is made with the small feather taken from the outside of the landrail's wing, dressed with yellow silk. 3. The Dun Spider is made from the small soft dun or ashcoloured feather taken from the outside of the dotterel's wing, failing that from the inside wing of the starling. The winged flies are as follows : — 1.
Seite 343 - ... Tweed is named and described. The Durham Ranger. — This is a favourite pattern on the Tweed, but it is, like most of the Tweed flies, good anywhere. Tag, silver tinsel and gold floss ; tail, one topping ; but, two turns of black herl ; body, two turns of light-orange floss, then two of dark orange, of claret, and black pig's wool, respectively — according to the size of the fly the turns may of course be increased or lessened ; the black wool to be picked out at the breast. Over the whole...
Seite 56 - ... the purpose of holding the ball on the line. A lump of stiff clay, of the size of an orange, is then taken, and some gentles being enclosed in it, it is worked up with bran over the piece of stick on to the line. The gut between the ball and the hook is then wound round the ball and drawn into the clay, which is squeezed and worked over it, so that only the hook shall protrude beyond the proper end of the ball, which is then dropped to the bottom — the hook with the gentles showing just outside...