A nondescript artificial fly will succeed better, they say, than a bad resemblance, and every attempt at imitation, in their opinion, produces at the best but a bad resemblance. These angling heretics contend that fish, rising at a natural fly, immediately... A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ... - Page 48by Edward Fitzgibbon - 1847 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1848 - 594 pages
...from them in shape, colour, &c., as may be. [The philosophers have never yravety gone this length.] A nondescript artificial fly will succeed better,...subject or another. Perhaps the majority of animals are equally so. These mad fly-fishers are successful, no doubt, because they meet with mad fish, which... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...and every attempt at imitation, in their opinion, produces at the best but a bad resemblance. Tnese angling heretics contend that fish, rising at a natural...subject or another. Perhaps the majority of animals are equally so. These mad fly-fishers are successful, no doubt, because they meet with mad fish, which... | |
| 1848 - 626 pages
...as may be. [The philosophers have never gravely gone this length.] A nondescript artificial fly wul succeed better, they say, than a bad resemblance,...flies totally different from them, and invariably meet d. and the Gun. New edition. Page 11. [rreen body, with a slight yellow cast in it, four transparent... | |
| 1848 - 638 pages
...opinion, produces at the best but a bad resemblance. These angling heretics contend that fish, rising ata natural fly, immediately detect — by comparison,...subject or another. Perhaps the majority of animals arc equally so. These mad fly-fishers are successful, no doubt, because they meet with mad fish, which... | |
| Edward Fitzgibbon - Fishes - 1865 - 362 pages
...refuse to rise at it ; whereas they will rise at some outlandish artificial that differs, as much as chalk does from Cheshire cheese, from the living fly...Perhaps the majority of animals are similarly so. I deem these fly-fishers mad, and think them successful because they meet with mad fish, more readily... | |
| 560 pages
...rise at it, whereas they will rise at some outlandish artificial that differs, more than chalk docs from Cheshire cheese, from the living fly on the water....fly-fishing they catch some of those flies that are on tho water, and fish with artificial flies totally different from them, and invariably meet with more... | |
| 552 pages
...than a bad resemblance, and every attempt at imitation, in their opinion, produces at the best but « bad resemblance. These angling heretics contend that...another. Perhaps the majority of animals are similarly во. These mad fly-fishers are successful, no doubt, because they meet with mad fish, which are more... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...at imitation, in their opinion, produces at the best but a bad resemblance. These angling hereties contend that fish, rising at a natural fly, immediately...subject or another. Perhaps the majority of animals are equally so. These mad flyfishers are successful, no doubt, because they meet with mad fish, which are... | |
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