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Hunting, trapping, and fishing made easy; A concise and practical guide for amateurs or professionals, including gunning and rifle shooting, with ... preserving, tanning and dyeing skins and furs - Softcover
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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. 1871 Excerpt: ...shot down to No. 4; they should be split about half way through with a small chisel, so as to make a gap sufficiently wide to admit the line, and when the latter is put in the gap should be closed with a pair of pliers, though the teeth will do. Reels.--A reel is very useful, as with itsassistance parts of a river may be reached which could not otherwise be attempted, it enables the angler also to play his fish with the greatest ease and certainty. When purchasing a reel, a multiplying one should be selected, as it is superior to all others, and enables the angler to lengthen and shorten his line rapidly. It must be kept clean and well oiled, and great care taken that no grit of any kind gets into it. Hooka.--Hooks are of various patterns and sizes, beginning at No. 1, which is the largest salmon size, and ending at No. 14, called the smallest midge. American hooks are also very good, especially those-made by Clarke's patent. Limerick hooks are excellent; and those made in Dublin, marked with 2 '""«, 2 B's, Mid so on, are second to none. A bad hook, be it remembered, is worse than a bad knife, only fit to be thrown away. When fastening the hooks on your lines, use strong but fino silk, and if you can get it near the color of your bait, so much the better; wax the silk thoroughly with shoemaker's wax, and wrap itfour or five times round the body of the hook, then place the gut or hair on the inside of your hook, and continue winding the silk tightly round till you have wrapped it about three parts down the hook. Whipping is finished off by slipping the end of the silk through the last circle, and drawing it tight. Knotting, by laying two, pieces of gut or hair together, one overlapping the other some' three inches or so, then holding one end i...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130885615
- ISBN 13 9781130885613
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages32
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