The Complete Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing, Volume 2Nattali and Bond, 1860 - 129 pages |
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Page 142
... bite . Come , scholar , come lay down your rod , and help me to land this as you did the other . So now we shall be sure to have a good dish of fish for supper . VENATOR . I am glad of that : but I have no fortune : sure , master ...
... bite . Come , scholar , come lay down your rod , and help me to land this as you did the other . So now we shall be sure to have a good dish of fish for supper . VENATOR . I am glad of that : but I have no fortune : sure , master ...
Page 146
... bite ; give time , there is no doubt of losing the fish , for there is not one amongst twenty but doth gorge the bait : the least stroke you can strike fastens the hook , and makes the fish sure , letting the fish take a turn or two ...
... bite ; give time , there is no doubt of losing the fish , for there is not one amongst twenty but doth gorge the bait : the least stroke you can strike fastens the hook , and makes the fish sure , letting the fish take a turn or two ...
Page 165
... bite , He dies therefore , as sure as creed . t VARIATION . ] In the first edition the song is thus introduced after the passage , " No life , my honest scholar , no life so happy and so pleasant as the angler's , unless it be the ...
... bite , He dies therefore , as sure as creed . t VARIATION . ] In the first edition the song is thus introduced after the passage , " No life , my honest scholar , no life so happy and so pleasant as the angler's , unless it be the ...
Page 175
... bite both at the minnow , the worm , and the fly both natural and artificial : of this fish there be many in Trent , and in the river that runs by Salisbury , and in some lesser brooks : but he is not so general a fish as the Trout is ...
... bite both at the minnow , the worm , and the fly both natural and artificial : of this fish there be many in Trent , and in the river that runs by Salisbury , and in some lesser brooks : but he is not so general a fish as the Trout is ...
Page 177
... bite both at the min- now , or worm , or fly , though he bites not often at the minnow , and is very gamesome at the fly ; and much simpler , and therefore bolder than a Trout ; for he will rise twenty times at a fly , if you miss him ...
... bite both at the min- now , or worm , or fly , though he bites not often at the minnow , and is very gamesome at the fly ; and much simpler , and therefore bolder than a Trout ; for he will rise twenty times at a fly , if you miss him ...
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angler Art of Angling artificial fly Ashbourn bait Barbel Beggars belly better betwixt bite body bottom Bream bred breed brown called camlet Carp cast catch caught Chap CHARLES COTTON colour Dace discourse dubbing edition excellent feed fish flies frog gentles Gesner give Grayling Green-drake ground-bait Gudgeon hackle hair hath head hook inches kind let me tell live lob-worms London mallard master meat minnow mixt month mouth never night NOTE continued observed Perch Phineas Fletcher Pike PISCATOR pond pounds river river Dove Roach Salmon season shew silk Sir Francis Bacon sometimes song spawn sport Stone-fly stream sweet swim tackle tail taken Tench Thames thee thou told Trout Trout and Grayling usually VARIATION VENATOR VIATOR Walton weeds wind wings winter wool worm yellow