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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Art of Angling, or Complete Fly-Fisher; Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, &C., &C

The Art of Angling, or Complete Fly-Fisher; Describing the Different Kinds of Fish, Their Haunts, Places of Feeding, &C., &C

Bowlker, Charles

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ISBN10: 1151589160
ISBN13: 9781151589163
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1810 Excerpt: ...-done growing, is as.difficult to prove, as that he lives so long. Though the state of every thing that has life is divided into the time of its growth, its consistence, and its. decay, and can-not be long permanent in that state; i. e. all things grow up, increase, decrease, and perish.. The mighty Luce makes the best present, as the more honourable dish at a noble entertainment; yet a male fish of the size when he becomes a Pike, (at which time he is about three quarters of a yard long), much more gratifies the eater, the, flesh not being then so coarse, but much more.delicious than the overgrown Pike or Luce..iTn-E Pike is a solitary fish, swims by himself and liv--s alone: delights most in sandy, clay, or gravelly bottoms, and in deep still pools, or near to.the sides of rivers; and those that are bred in such waters, grow fatter and faster, and eat better than those bred in pools.. Rhrer Pike delight most in.the deepest, Eargest, and quietest parts of the river, the better to surprise their prey: they lurk among reeds, bull-rushes, arid wate.locks, under boughs of trees, and'behindbushes, roots, and stumps of trees, or other.things that jut forth into the water; therefore you must fish for them: in the haunts before described; and close to'the bank sides, laige' angles, and holes that are.weedy, short, deep, ' and still, and near to some-ford; shallow, or scour, in which generally th'e young fry abound, and are most commodious for Pike fishing, be cause in such, Pikes are most easily and certainly, found: and when'you see any stand or place at any water-side, in which Pikes are, that are.much beaten, ortrodden bare by anglers, for other fish, those may be accounted.principal haunts of Pikes; for by beatmg the ground rt such places to catch other fish, ...

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