Fishing Tackle, Its Material and Manufacture: A Practical Guide ... |
Common terms and phrases
amateur angler angling artificial fly attached bait barb barbel Beeton's bend blue body Boil Book brass brown butt cane carp cast colour cork course Dictionary dressing dubbing eyed hook fasten feather ferrule fibres finger and thumb finished fish Fisherman's Knot fitted flies float floss silk fly-fishing fly-making fly-tying gimp GOLDEN PERCH greenheart hackle half-hitch head herl Illustrated imitation inches india-rubber joint knot latter legs length lip-hook loop MAHSEER makers manufacture materials Messrs metal mohair ordinary ostrich perch piece pike fishing plate quill reader red ibis Redditch reel refer ribbed ring roach rod-making round the hook salmon fly secure shank shellac shown in Fig shows side silver slipped spinning spoon swivel tackle tackle-maker tail tapering triplet trout turn twist tying silk tyro varnish whipped winch wings wire wood yellow
Popular passages
Page 217 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 217 - Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 16 - To stand in awe of this vsurping king, Whose tyranny so farre extended than That Earth and Seas it did in thraldome bring ; It was a work of greater paine and skill, The wary Fish in lake or Brooke to kill. " So, worse and worse, two ages more did passe, Yet still this Art more perfect daily grew, For then the slender Rod invented was, Of finer sort than former ages knew, And Hookes were made of...
Page 58 - Let us start by asking the rich — those who have more money than they know what to do with, who live in mansions and travel in the most expensive cars.
Page 16 - Than elder times did know or try before. " But at the last the Iron age drew neere, Of all the rest the hardest, and most scant, Then lines were made of Silke and subtile hayre, And Rods of lightest Cane and hazell plant, And Hookes of hardest steele inuented were, That neither skill nor workemanship did want. And so this Art did in the end attaine Vnto that state where now it doth remaine.