Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America |
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Agassiz American anal fin angler bait bays belly bite Black Bass Black Fish bluish boat body boil bones Brook Trout Bull Trout butter Carp caudal fin Charr colour Common Trout Coregonus Dekay delicate described dish distinct species dorsal fin Eels Esox fin-rays flavour flies fresh fresh-water game fish Genus gill-covers habits Halibut head hook inches killing Lake Trout lateral line Lawrence length Long Island minnow mode mouth napkin nearly never observed operculum Otsego Parr parsley pectoral fin pectorals Perch Pike pond pounds reel rivers Salmon Trout salt sauce Sea Trout season Shad Sheep's-head shores side silvery Siskawitz snout soft rays spawn spines spinous sport sportsman spots stew-pan stream strike Striped Bass tablespoonfuls tackle tail taken teeth trolling Trout Salmo true Salmon upper varieties ventrals vomer Weak Fish weight Yarrel yellow Yellow Perch York
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Page 48 - ... chews his cud, and the horse which fattens at the manger. I have known a sage coroner in England, who was wont to indulge in sapient ridicule of the learned professions, and to sneer at anatomical and physiological distinctions, who gravely sat in inquest over some exhumed bones, and solemnly recorded a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, the skeleton, when examined, turning out to be that of a defunct cow.
Page 438 - ... mace, and the rinds of oranges and lemons. That done, cover your pot and set it on a quick fire till it be sufficiently boiled. Then take out the Carp ; and lay it, with the broth, into the dish ; and pour upon it a quarter of a pound of the best fresh butter, melted, and beaten with half a dozen spoonfuls of the broth, the yolks of two or three eggs, and some of the herbs shred : garnish your dish with lemons, and so serve it up. And much good do you ! Dr.
Page 78 - ... the exit of the water : the bottom of the box was filled with pebbles and gravel of different sizes, which were kept covered with water that was always in motion. In November or the beginning of December, when the trout were in full maturity for spawning, and collected in the rivers for this purpose upon...
Page 438 - ... bind them into two or three small bundles, and put them to your Carp, with four or five whole onions, twenty pickled oysters, and three anchovies.
Page 350 - ... at a fly even before they can speak. He has given a coloured plan of a stream, denoting the Trout's favourite haunts in rapid clear-running waters, with a rocky or gravelly bottom — in which are marked by letters the tail of the stream, the end of a little rapid, or swifter portion of the current, the junction of little rapids formed by water passing round an obstruction in the midst of the general current, tracks where a chain of bubbles or little floating objects indicate the course of the...
Page 298 - ... plumage, which soared away, crowing their bold defiance, over the heathery moorlands. " Once at the water's edge, the young man's tackle was speedily made ready, and in a few minutes his long line went whistling through the air, as he wielded the powerful twohanded rod, as easily as if it had been a stripling's reed, and the large gaudy peacock-fly alighted on the wheeling eddies, at the tail of a long arrowy shoot, as gently as if it had settled from too long a flight. Delicately, deftly, it...
Page 370 - To the line on your reel you must attach a gimp-trace, twenty-four inches long, having a swivel at each end, and one in the middle. The spring swivel, at the end of your line, is to be hooked on the loop of your baited trace, and you are ready for sport. When you are thus prepared, drop in your bait lightly before you, then cast it on each side, and let the third throw be across the river, or as far as you can reach ; still letting the bait fall lightly on the water. In each cast let your bait fall...
Page 104 - I have caught with a fly some not longer than my finger, which have had as perfect a hard stomach as the larger ones, with the coats as thick in proportion, and the same shells within...
Page 99 - ... water flies, which are to be found moving about on the surface, under banks and sheltered places. The Trout fed with worms grew slowly, and had a lean appearance. Those nourished on minnows, which, it was observed, they darted at with great voracity, became much larger ; while such as...
Page 353 - For bush-fishing, you should be provided with well-scoured brandlings and red worm, cad-baits, clock-baits, earth-grubs, beetles, grasshoppers, and a horn of flies, or, at least, as many of the above as you can procure. A small green grub, or caterpillar, which may be got in June and July, by shaking, over a sheet or tablecloth, the boughs of an oak-tree, is a most killing bait for this kind of fishing.