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... purloined from the old keeper , who preferred killing vermin by the lazy method of the gun - my delight when I detected the first poor captured badger - all rose fresh before me , as in those sunny mornings of life's early spring .
... purloined from the old keeper , who preferred killing vermin by the lazy method of the gun - my delight when I detected the first poor captured badger - all rose fresh before me , as in those sunny mornings of life's early spring .
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I had 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 ...
I had 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 ...
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It will be very necessary to get a list of the most 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 ...
It will be very necessary to get a list of the most 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 ...
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... and affirm that they will 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 overrate ...
... and affirm that they will 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 overrate ...
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For instance , though the Thames is so sluggish , and the trout so wary , the most killing fly there is what they call the soldier - palmer , " that is , a brightdyed hackle red pig's wool , and gold tinsel .
For instance , though the Thames is so sluggish , and the trout so wary , the most killing fly there is what they call the soldier - palmer , " that is , a brightdyed hackle red pig's wool , and gold tinsel .
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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,
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| Title | Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell" |
| Author | John Colquhoun |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 185 pages |
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