Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... killing vermin by the lazy method of the gun - my delight when I de- tected the first poor captured badger - all rose fresh be- fore me , as in those sunny mornings of life's early spring . My brothers and I had been brought up in the ...
... killing vermin by the lazy method of the gun - my delight when I de- tected the first poor captured badger - all rose fresh be- fore me , as in those sunny mornings of life's early spring . My brothers and I had been brought up in the ...
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... killed in Loch Vennacher , the year before , with single gut , a clean salmon which weighed seventeen pounds when brought home . This salmon did not make near so fierce a run as the Loch Awe trout with gimp . I have heard gentlemen ...
... killed in Loch Vennacher , the year before , with single gut , a clean salmon which weighed seventeen pounds when brought home . This salmon did not make near so fierce a run as the Loch Awe trout with gimp . I have heard gentlemen ...
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... killing flies in use , on the spot , and tie them of various shades and sizes . After being thoroughly shown the casts of the river when swollen , it may be as well to have recourse to the guide again , when it becomes small and clear ...
... killing flies in use , on the spot , and tie them of various shades and sizes . After being thoroughly shown the casts of the river when swollen , it may be as well to have recourse to the guide again , when it becomes small and clear ...
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... kill in any water . These men have , of course , a great advantage over occasional visitors , both from their knowledge of the flies and places where the fish lie ; gentlemen are therefore apt to over- rate their pretensions , and pay ...
... kill in any water . These men have , of course , a great advantage over occasional visitors , both from their knowledge of the flies and places where the fish lie ; gentlemen are therefore apt to over- rate their pretensions , and pay ...
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... killing fly there is what they call " the soldier - palmer , " that is , a bright- dyed hackle red pig's wool , and gold tinsel . When fishing for salmon only , never have two flies on your cast . The pleasure of hooking more fish will ...
... killing fly there is what they call " the soldier - palmer , " that is , a bright- dyed hackle red pig's wool , and gold tinsel . When fishing for salmon only , never have two flies on your cast . The pleasure of hooking more fish will ...
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Page 1 - Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched love of novelty which originates in selfishness, shallowness, and conceit, and which especially characterizes all vulgar minds, there is set in the deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age that the eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time...
Page i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,