River Angling for Salmon and TroutJ. and J.H. Rutherfurd, 1860 - 206 pages |
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Page 153 - In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too, some other use.
Page 132 - ... clear water, and in the same kind of water ; although in the end of April, when it comes into use, it may sometimes be used with advantage in deeper streams. It may be baited upon a common worm hook, passed through it side ways and back again, or upon a couple of hooks of a smaller size, one of them sideways through the shoulders, and the other in the same way through the lower part of the body. Towards the end of May it is a most effective bait for large trouts, when brought skilfully into the...
Page 148 - Account of experimental observations on the development and growth of salmon-fry from the exclusion of the ova to the age of two years.
Page 136 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Page 154 - ... and this pike falling so suddenly and entirely off, and its case also filling up immediately after spawning; as well as the dark red colour of the whole body of the male changing to a pale silvery grey, till one cannot distinguish male from female, the cause of so remarkable changes being unknown to us, need we wonder that the still more complex construction of the genitals, and of the manner of their use, should to this day be unascertained...
Page xxxix - Younger's friend for many years, eminent as a scholar and linguist, William Brockie of the Sunderland Times, gave a sketch of his character, summing the leading features of his career, thus — " Of poor, but honest and respectable parentage, he continued poor, but honest and respectable ; his whole life a hard struggle against poverty, owing in a great measure to unfortunate family and business connections. Happy in wedded life, he was for many years a widower — his children grown up and settled....
Page 114 - ... with the apparatus employed. During the day, sniggling, bobbing, or ledgerline fishing will be the most successful. The first is practised as follows : — Take the needle, armed and suspended as already described, and draw on it a large lob-worm in the following manner. Enter the eye of the needle at the head of the worm, and run it down till the whole needle is covered except the point, which is inserted in the notch or slit at the end of the rod, leaving the worm free. In this way the head...
Page xix - Janet," beginning, Surroundit wi' bent, an' wi' heather, Where muircocks an' plivers are rife, For mony lang towmond thegither, There lived an auld man an' his wife. To Andrew, John made up and was received with kindliness. In return, John rendered homage as to genius, and a friendship was formed, ksting till the old barnman flung down the flail, never to uplift it.
Page 203 - It shall not be lawful for any Person to fish for, or take, or aid, or assist in fishing for, or taking, any Salmon in or from the River at any time between the Fourteenth Day of September in any Tear, and the Fifteenth Day of February in the Year following...