The Rod and Line, or Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, Etc: In Five Parts (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Hewett Wheatley

9780267703487: The Rod and Line, or Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, Etc: In Five Parts (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267703481 ISBN 13: 9780267703487

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Excerpt from The Rod and Line, or Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, Etc: In Five Parts

Considerable manual dexterity is required to produce a good imitation of the natural insect, and the acquisition Of this art is a pleasant and interesting accomplishment. In this manufacture colour must be minutely at tended to, for it is a demonstrated fact, that fish rise at colour. Imitate never so Closely the form and general character of the fly at which the fish are rising, if the colour be wanting, you will have no sport.

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