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 132
... live longest in the water ; for you are to know that a dead worm is but a dead bait , and like to catch nothing , com- pared to a lively , quick , stirring worm . And for a brand- ling , he is usually found in an old dunghill , or some ...
... live longest in the water ; for you are to know that a dead worm is but a dead bait , and like to catch nothing , com- pared to a lively , quick , stirring worm . And for a brand- ling , he is usually found in an old dunghill , or some ...
Page 137
... live minnow lying by her : the mould or body of the minnow was cloth , and wrought upon , or over it , thus , with a needle ; the back of it with very sad French green silk , and paler green silk towards the belly , shadowed as ...
... live minnow lying by her : the mould or body of the minnow was cloth , and wrought upon , or over it , thus , with a needle ; the back of it with very sad French green silk , and paler green silk towards the belly , shadowed as ...
Page 140
... lives a kind of dead life , without eating all the winter . And as others of several kinds turn to be several kinds of flies and vermin , the Spring following ; so this caterpillar then turns to be a painted butterfly . 2 Come , come ...
... lives a kind of dead life , without eating all the winter . And as others of several kinds turn to be several kinds of flies and vermin , the Spring following ; so this caterpillar then turns to be a painted butterfly . 2 Come , come ...
Page 155
... lives . VENATOR . I thank you , good master , for your good direction for fly - fishing , and for the sweet enjoyment of the pleasant day , which is so far spent without offence to God or man and I thank you for the sweet close of your ...
... lives . VENATOR . I thank you , good master , for your good direction for fly - fishing , and for the sweet enjoyment of the pleasant day , which is so far spent without offence to God or man and I thank you for the sweet close of your ...
Page 166
... live at ease . Bright shines the sun , play Beggars , play ; Here's scraps enough to serve to - day . " VENATOR . I thank you , good master , for this piece of merriment , and this song , which was well humoured by the maker , and well ...
... live at ease . Bright shines the sun , play Beggars , play ; Here's scraps enough to serve to - day . " VENATOR . I thank you , good master , for this piece of merriment , and this song , which was well humoured by the maker , and well ...
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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