Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell"John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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Page 25
... taken out of the water . 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 with ...
... taken out of the water . 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 with ...
Page 35
... taken in the pools , when there would have been no chance with the smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ptarmigan wing , dull yellow , or dark green body , and a hackle half black and half red . This ...
... taken in the pools , when there would have been no chance with the smallest salmon hook . An excellent fly for some light summer waters is a ptarmigan wing , dull yellow , or dark green body , and a hackle half black and half red . This ...
Page 43
... taken much decreased . Six- teen - 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 ...
... taken much decreased . Six- teen - 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 ...
Page 46
... taken from sixteen to eighteen 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 ...
... taken from sixteen to eighteen 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 ...
Page 49
... taken by trolling close to the bottom , as they are lazy . In roughish weather row slowly , in order to give them a good opportunity of seeing and seizing the bait ; quicker in a mild clear day , for it is then as well to give them ...
... taken by trolling close to the bottom , as they are lazy . In roughish weather row slowly , in order to give them a good opportunity of seeing and seizing the bait ; quicker in a mild clear day , for it is then as well to give them ...
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