The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of ScotlandW. Blackwood, 1853 - 357 páginas |
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Página 81 - As an exercise, it is healthy, xnd just to the proper degree exciting. It braces the muscles, enlivens the spirits, gives rise to an agreeable alternation of hopes and fears, calls into activity the judgment as well as the fancy, the good taste and discrimination of the artist not less than his ideal and creative powers. It affords room, also, as has often been remarked, for the display of elegant motions and graceful attitudes; impersonations of earnestness and intense enthusiasm, of hope, of anxiety,...
Página 139 - Head smooth ; body covered with scales ; two dorsal fins, the first supported by rays, the second fleshy, without rays ; teeth on the vomer, both palatine bones, and all the maxillary bones ; branchiostegous rays varying in number, generally from ten to twelve, but sometimes unequal on the two sides of the head, of the same fish.
Página 81 - But now, mark him, he has dropt the hook cautiously and skilfully, just above the indicated spot; the fish, scarcely breaking the surface, has seized it. A fast, firm hold it has ; but the tackle is fine, and the trout strong and active. Look ! how the expression of his features is undergoing a change. There is still hope, but mingled with it are traces of anxiety — of fear itself. His attitudes, too, are those of a troubled and distempered man.
Página 26 - The worms must be kept in strong vinegar, and covered close over for twelve hours, if the weather is warm ; if not, two or three hours longer will be necessary. When taken out, they must be pulled asunder, and you will see two transparent guts...
Página 180 - ... less relishable — of some ardent and kindred spirit, the sharer of my thoughts and felicity — give me, in such a place, and along with such an onlooker, the real sport of salmon-fishing — the rush of some veteran water-monarch, or the gambol and caracol of a plump new-run grilse, and talk no more of that monotonous and spiritless semblance of the pastime, which is followed by the affluent, among the dubs and dams of our border river.
Página 60 - ... the optics of the trout ? Do they suppose this fish, in regard to its surface food, so singularly capricious as to refuse all others but the insect of the day, so whimsical as even to resist the claims of hunger itself, unless wrought on by the appearance of some peculiarly streaked water-fly ? Do they fancy it discriminative of every shade or hue in the wing, body, and feelers of its prey...
Página 19 - ... and amply and regularly provisioned. On the other hand, possessed of these advantages, they have all that is required in order to do them justice; while breeds or varieties of fish, hitherto pronounced shapeless and impracticable, will...
Página 346 - It is a singular circumstance that salmon and their fry have occasionally been taken in the upper parts of the Clyde, above its loftiest fall, which, being 80 feet in height, it is utterly impossible for fish of any kind to surmount. The fact is accounted for in this way. After passing Tinto Hill, the bed of the Clyde approaches to a level with that of the Biggar Water, which is close at hand, and discharges itself into the Tweed. On the occasion of a large flood the two streams become connected,...
Página 347 - Clyde, above its loftiest fall, which, being 80 feet in height, it is utterly impossible for fish of any kind to surmount. The fact is accounted for in this way. After passing Tinto Hill, the bed of the Clyde approaches to a level with that of the Biggar Water, which is close at hand, and discharges itself into the Tweed. On the occasion of a large flood the two streams become connected, and the Clyde actually pours a portion of its waters into one of the tributaries of the Tweed, which is accessible...
Página 179 - Lot-hie or the Findhorn, full of breaks, runs, pools, and gorges— give me the waving birch-wood, the cliff and ivied scaur, tenanted by keen-eyed kestril or wary falcon — more than this, give me solitude, or the companionship — not less relishable— of some ardent and kindred spirit, the sharer of my thoughts and felicity — give me, in such a place, and along with such an onlooker, the real sport of salmon-fishing — the rush of some veteran...