... veritable, indisputable salmon, was looked upon as a kind of piscatory god, men of the same ilk are now as plentiful as blackberries. Possibly it is a pity that it should be so, because it follows that salmon rivers are flogged continuously by a class ...

... fisherman, and a very fine one, too ; and I hope 187 to have better news for you next week. The bleak are rising as thick as blackberries ; swallows are about, and the cuckoo has been heard as long ago as a fortnight.—l I ENHY WOOL). The Suir and its T, ibutaries ...

... chief exertions were devoted to making believe very much and preserving very little. Why, poachers were as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, yet they never got caught, and no wonder, as the class of men whose services had been secured by the payment ...

... this district is remarkably mild for the time of year. I have seen primroses and snowdrops in bloom, and I heard of some blackberries being found a few days agi. I have had no opportunity of trying, but I have no doubt that grayling would rise at fly on ...

... wild, romantic scenery, which ever lends a delightful charm to this health-giving pursuit, will brace them up for the Blackberry fish, which, now that the barometer is falling, and depressions foretold, there is still a hope of seeing. Anticipation ...

... two about the East Pool, where I was fishing, may not come amiss. At eight sharp that morning I wended my way along the blackberry path under the shadows of the bold blue mountains, some with snowy peaks, which, hot as the weather was, indistinctly rose ...

... have used the finest tackle, drawn gut and hair, tried every kind of sweet paste, worms, gentles, potatoes, blackberries (bream like blackberries), figs, bananas, a bit of crumb of bread just under or on the surface ; in fact, there is not a bait recommended ...

... linger by the way. In half an hour we were rid of the car, and walking through a wood which seemed a perfect garden of blackberries, making me long for the companionship of two mischievous youngsters whom I had left at home. When describing my wanderings ...

... difficult to say. Should any blackberry bushes overhang the water, the fish may often be seen in the autumn to take any berries that fall, and in this case, by keeping well out of eight, and dropping the hook, baited with a ripe blackberry, under the bushes, large ...

... though I searched diligently amongst the bushes, I found only the shattered remains of a blackbird's nest in a buckthorn and blackberry bush, so artfully placed that it was impossible to get at it without cutting the prickly thorns to pieces. The bush was ...