The American Angler's Guide: Or, Complete Fisher's Manual, for the United StatesD. Appleton, 1876 - 428 pages |
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anal fins angler angling artificial fly attached bait basse fishing beautiful belly bite black basse black-fish blue fish boat body bottom brown called carp cast caudal fin caught clam color crab dark dorsal dorsal fin fastened feather feet in length finny fins flies float fly-fishing fresh water game fish gently gimp give ground hackle head hook inches in length inhabitants kind lake trout lakes legs light Limerick Long Island loop minnow mode mouth muskellunge New-York perch pickerel pike pleasure ponds pounds quantities reel rivers salmon salt water says season sheepshead shore shrimp side silk sinker sometimes spawn species sport sportsman spots squeteague squid stout streams strike striped basse success swivel tackle tail taken tautog trolling trout twisted Walton weak-fish weight wind wings worm yards yellow Yellow Perch
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Page 227 - Our plenteous streams a various race supply, 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.
Page 406 - To make this condiment, your poet begs The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled eggs ; Two boiled potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve, Smoothness and softness to the salad give...
Page 217 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Page 14 - Sir, there be many men that are by others taken to be serious and grave men, which we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion, money-getting men, men that spend all their time first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it ; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy or discontented : for these poor, rich men, we Anglers pity them perfectly, and stand in no need to borrow their thoughts to think ourselves so happy.
Page 11 - And on such pleasing fancies feed their fill ; So I the fields and meadows green may view, And daily by fresh rivers walk at will, Among the daisies and the violets blue, Red hyacinth, and yellow daffodil, Purple Narcissus like the morning rays, Pale gander-grass, and azure culver-keys.
Page 91 - He rolls and wreaths his shining body round; Then headlong shoots beneath the dashing tide, The trembling fins the boiling wave divide; Now hope exalts the fisher's beating heart, Now he turns pale, and fears his dubious art; He views the tumbling fish with longing eyes; While the line stretches with th...
Page 52 - Now, salmonfishing is to all other kinds of angling as buckshooting to shooting of any meaner description. The salmon is, in this particular, the king of fish. It requires a dexterous hand and an acute eye to raise and strike him, and when this is achieved the sport is only begun, at the point where, even in trout angling, unless in case of an unusually lively and strong fish, it is at once commenced and ended.
Page 14 - ... we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion; money-getting men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next, in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy...
Page 36 - Trout that I have seen in all my time; and will take great store, and not fail if they be there. Secondly, it is a special bait for Dace or Dare, good for Chub or Bottlin, or Grayling.
Page 42 - ... to which I shall encourage them. For Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics, that it can never be fully learned; at least not so fully, but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.