Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... sporting propensities . - Family likeness . - Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits . - Shooting a shepherd for a deer THOMAS A'THING THE BASS ROCK . • Its effect when first seen ...
... sporting propensities . - Family likeness . - Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits . - Shooting a shepherd for a deer THOMAS A'THING THE BASS ROCK . • Its effect when first seen ...
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... sport ; unless , indeed , in preserved waters , where there is much less opportunity of displaying the superiority of an accomplished fisher over the ordinary performer . In un- protected water , for instance , should the weather be un ...
... sport ; unless , indeed , in preserved waters , where there is much less opportunity of displaying the superiority of an accomplished fisher over the ordinary performer . In un- protected water , for instance , should the weather be un ...
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... sport was over when the forty - pound fish he landed above Yair Bridge was first hooked . And the great sculp- tor would have been equally astonished if the struggles of a sixteen - pound Thames trout had been treated with the like ...
... sport was over when the forty - pound fish he landed above Yair Bridge was first hooked . And the great sculp- tor would have been equally astonished if the struggles of a sixteen - pound Thames trout had been treated with the like ...
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... sport . But perhaps this unbending of the bow may have given it double power when strung again . Sir Charles was only a second - rate fisher , and it often seemed curious to me that he , and several men of the brightest intellect whom I ...
... sport . But perhaps this unbending of the bow may have given it double power when strung again . Sir Charles was only a second - rate fisher , and it often seemed curious to me that he , and several men of the brightest intellect whom I ...
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... sport depends on securing that one which combined circumstances render the most desirable at the time . Trolling with par is a most deadly method , the bait being so gaudy , but it is ruinous to fly - fishing . If a par has been trailed ...
... sport depends on securing that one which combined circumstances render the most desirable at the time . Trolling with par is a most deadly method , the bait being so gaudy , but it is ruinous to fly - fishing . If a par has been trailed ...
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Alpine hare angler appeared bait bank barn owl bird boat cast Castle chance Cladich colour Crap-na-Gower deer distance diving ducks dun-birds eagle eggs eyrie favourite feed fish flew flies flock foot forest frequent frost gamekeeper ground grouse gulls hatched head heard Highland hill hook Inch Moan Inverary island keeper killed Kilmun land legs Loch Awe Loch Goil Loch Lomond Loch Long look mallard miles moors morillon morning nearly nest never night numbers once otter pair perched Peter pheasants poacher pool poor pounds prey ring-dove river rock rose Rossarden salmon Sandy scarcely sea-trout seen seized seldom shallow shoot shore shot side snipe sometimes soon sport spring stalking stoat stream summer tawny owl took tree trolling trout walk watched watchers weather white owl wigeon wind wing winter woodcock yards young
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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,