... down that on the one side pollack delighted to roam. and the other bass came up with the tide, and were as plentiful as blackberries on shore. Making due allowance for that peculiarpropensity on the part of anglers generally to indulge in hyperbole, I ...

... truly the advice is excellent; but what if he won't be caught. hotel or no hotel ? Were hotels as plentiful in Ireland as blackberries—or as labourers' cottages, and that is saying a great deal—your gold bird will come not my friends. Certainly, without ...

... able to test them, have proved n►ost satisfactory and are very cheap, viz.. only 6d. each. The black paste has a kmd of blackberry scent about it. it dries quickly, and then does not come off on trouser ends or dainty white petticoats. As the company ...

... lily. To our left grew tall oaks, whose farreaching branches stretched over the river side, on the right were hazel and blackberry hushes, both laden with fruit. In front was a clear stretch of grass up to the water's edge. and precious deep it was, too ...

... illustrations of, 95 scents for, 7 Barbel, the, fit Barley bait, 46 Basket or creel, 28 used in spinning to hold the line, 114 Blackberries as bait, 48 Bleak, the, 52 Boots, waterproof dressing for, 33 Bream, the, 57 Buffer-knot, 29 CADDIR-BAIT, 44 Carp, the ...

... merely, as far as is apparent, to injure the cane, naturally asks how and why this is done. Reasons being as plenty as blackberries, of course there is no lack in this case. But that these are not more consistent than the finding of the coroner's jury ...

... (ironed-baits, various, 48, 49 NATPRAL FLY, fishing with the, 169 Nottingham reel, the, 16 used in sp g to hold the line,ll4 Blackberries as bait, 48 Bleak, the, 52 Boots, waterproof dressing for, 33 Breton, the, 57 Buffer-knot, 29 OIL, to make flies float ...

... STRAY CASTS. (Continued from page 30o.) RECIPES for dressing lines are as plenty as blackberries ; but; when I read some fresh and best one in my F. G. or elsewhere, I am tempted to lay down the paper, and relieve my mind in this way : Why not send these ...

... antiquated tin- as my opportunities for angling are hardly as pot-in-a-barrel style of launch so well known and plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, I resolved FLOOD AND MUD. well-beloved by the would-be peaceful angler. that the first spare day I had, ...

... the most famed tributaries of the Thames—the Colne, to wit—and as my opportunities for angling are hardly as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, I resolved that the first spare day I had, let the wind blow from the north or south, east or west, and ...

... without intermission until our arrival at our destination. The tedium of the hill climbing was relieved to some extent by blackberrying in the hedges en route. Somewhat awakened and refreshed, we arrive at our destination about ten minutes to seven, and found ...

... the state of affairs is meat indeed to the pike and perch fisher ! Ten-pounder and 15- pounder pike are as thick a s blackberries, '2O-pounders and 30-pounders are not at all uncommon, and 40-pounders are no longer a doubtful quantity, they have been ...