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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POND-PISHING. 3 revisited the scenes of his former exploits, with the same tackle he used then, whether he would not find rather more difficulty in ' pleasuring some poor body ' with the contents of his creel than he was wont to do. The art of angling, as pursued in the present day, must be divided into three branches?Bottom, Mid-water, and Top or surface-fishing. The first comprehends bait and float-fishing of every kind: the second, spinning, trolling, and live-baiting; and the last, daping and fishing with the artificial fly. As the first has by far the greater number of followers, owing to the greater facilities offered for its pursuit, we shall commence with that. Bottom-fishing may be subdivided into still-water and stream-fishing. Still-water is usually the first essay of the tyro, and with that we shall commence our instructions. Still-watek or Pond-fishing may be practised under various circumstances, and the tackle used must depend upon the fish to be fished for. The fish which usually frequent ponds are roach, perch, carp, tench, bream, eels, and pike. The tackle, as we have said, must depend much upon circumstances; such as whether the pond be shallow or deep, clear or muddy, much fished or the reverse, and also upon the kind of fish the angler is going after. If he be not particular, as few young anglers are, we recommend to him a bait and tackle which will take all pond fish, and even the jack himself at times. Let him employ a good long bamboo rod, not beyond his strength. It is always advantageous to have a reel, as big fish are capricious, and sometimes will prefer the clumsy bait of the tyro to the neat and trimly impaled worm of Mr. Professor himself; a gut bottom of not less than two yards; a light cork float (Plate II. fig. 2, p. 70), carrying...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217156592 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217156592 |
| Weight | 1.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $26.16 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 368 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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