The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting |
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anal fins angler ART OF ANGLING artificial fly bait banks beautiful beneath body bones bream British Fishes brown called capture carp char cock's hackle colour creatures dark deep dorsal fin eels feathers finny flesh flies fly-fishing frequently fresh water gills gimp green hackle hackle for legs head hook inches insect jaws killed kind lakes larvæ length Linn Loch Loch Awe Lond minnow months mouth nature observed opercle osseous pale parr pectoral pectoral fins pike ponds portion pound weight pounds rays regarded resemblance river roach Salmo ferox salmon Sam Slick Scotland sea-trout season Shaw shore side silvery Sir William Jardine sometimes spawn species specimens sport spring stickle-back stream summer surface swallowed swimming swimming bladder tail tion trolling trout usually ventral weighed Windermere wings wool worms Yarrell yellow young