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" 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 48
by Edward Fitzgibbon - 1847 - 363 pages
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The North British Review, Volume 8

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 17

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...
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The North British Review, Volumes 8-9

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...
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The Living Age, Volume 17

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...
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A Handbook of Angling: Teaching Fly-fishing, Trolling, Bottom-fishing, and ...

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...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

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...
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The Sportsman

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...
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The Daguerreotype, Volume 2

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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