Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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Page 41
... pound grilse sucked down the same fly , as eagerly as the trout did , and shared the same fate . I had no more time ... pounds and a half when I brought him home . This day , however , neither salmon nor sea - trout would look at a fly ...
... pound grilse sucked down the same fly , as eagerly as the trout did , and shared the same fate . I had no more time ... pounds and a half when I brought him home . This day , however , neither salmon nor sea - trout would look at a fly ...
Page 43
... pound fish are now as rare as twenty - pounders used to be a few years ago . Many reasons are suggested for this falling off , but the most rational I have heard is the dexterity of the sea - netters close to the mouths of all our good ...
... pound fish are now as rare as twenty - pounders used to be a few years ago . Many reasons are suggested for this falling off , but the most rational I have heard is the dexterity of the sea - netters close to the mouths of all our good ...
Page 46
... pounds . ( I have never fished much for them myself , and the largest I have caught was five pounds weight . I hooked him with minnow near the foot of Loch Lubnaig , as I rowed home after fly - fishing the green sunk banks at the top ...
... pounds . ( I have never fished much for them myself , and the largest I have caught was five pounds weight . I hooked him with minnow near the foot of Loch Lubnaig , as I rowed home after fly - fishing the green sunk banks at the top ...
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... pounds . When brought to table he cut up white , but was firm and good to eat . I have observed two kinds of the salmo - ferox , one , dark- skinned and white in the flesh ; the other , pink in flesh , and of starry scales . The latter ...
... pounds . When brought to table he cut up white , but was firm and good to eat . I have observed two kinds of the salmo - ferox , one , dark- skinned and white in the flesh ; the other , pink in flesh , and of starry scales . The latter ...
Page 51
... pound and three quarters - came round the opposite side , and en- tered the estuary of the Awe , a fine black deep creek , but I never hooked a large fish in it . To - day we only got a small thing , rather more than a pound . To make ...
... pound and three quarters - came round the opposite side , and en- tered the estuary of the Awe , a fine black deep creek , but I never hooked a large fish in it . To - day we only got a small thing , rather more than a pound . To make ...
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