Recollections of fly fishing for salmon, trout, and grayling, with notes on their haunts habits, and history
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is part of: Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection
creator: Hamilton, Edward, 1815-1903
issued: 2020-03-27
issued: 1884
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extent: 190 pages : illustrations
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note: UNIVERSITY OF B.C. LIBRARY 3 9424 06203 2625 LING ■L'lDf'J THE LIBRARY EBB} I Gi rHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ft of Hany Hawthc Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation Sl Propagation of the Principles Sl Ethics of Fly-Fishing >rn 1 RECOLLECTIONS OF FLY FISHING FOR SALMON, TROUT, AND GRAYLING. m :-siUU*i p . z**~ RECOLLECTIONS OF FLY FISHING FOR SALMON, TROUT, AND GRAYLING, WITH NOTES ON THEIR HAUNTS, HABITS, AND HISTORY. BY EDWARD HAMILTON, M.D., F.L.S., &C. ILLUSTRATED BY A MEZZOTINT ENGRAVING BY FRANCIS SEYMOUR HADEN, ESQ., AND OTHER WOODCUTS. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, AND RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET. 1884. {All rights reserved.) " Thus shall memory often in dreams sublime Catch a glimpse of the days that are over. Thus, sighing, look through the waves of Time For the long faded glories they cover." _jgittl PREFACE. HEY be mighty partikler now-a-days, bean't they, sir? not like when I was a boy;" was the remark of the old keeper (man and boy on the river for forty years) who had been watching my vain efforts to inveigle a big trout greedily sucking in the natural fly and apparently totally regardless of the beautiful and perfect imitation I was persistently presenting to him, the only notice of which he deigned to take was an occasional turn of his head, just to satisfy himself that he was being imposed upon. I had tried him with the dry, the wet, and the sunk fly—had changed from one fly to another till I was tired—and had just given up the fruitless task as these words greeted my ears : "Mighty particular, indeed, they are; it is VI Preface. evident that the higher education has extended to the trout; and the schoolmasters, in the shape of numberless fishermen, constantly presenting the artificial fly to their gaze, have taught these beautiful and bold members of the salmon family to distinguish the real from the unreal, and which knowledge, if effective means are not found, will in all probability enable the fish to beat the…
has type: Books
identifier: SH456 .H28 1884
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0389647
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
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source: University of British Columbia. Library. Woodward Library. Harry Hawthorn Collection. SH456 .H28 1884
subject: Fishing
type: Text