 | Richard Brookes - 1766 - 332 pages
...Fly, let your Rod be rufh-tapered, with a very flender Top, that you may throw your Fly with greater Certainty and Eafe ; for if the Top is too ftiff, the Fly will be fooa whipped off. Your Line fhould be three times the Length of your Rod. In this kind of Angling you... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1781 - 328 pages
...Fly, let your Rod be rufh-tapered, with a very flender Top, that you may throw your Fly with greater Certainty and Eafe ; for if the Top is too ftiff,...the Length of your Rod. In this Kind of Angling, you mould placeyourfelf fo that the Wind may be upon your Back, or at leaft you muftchufe f'uch a Time... | |
 | Thomas Shirley - 1784 - 162 pages
...fly, let .your rod 'be rufhtapcred, with a very flendcr top, that you mny throw your 'fly with greater certainty and eafe ; for .if the top is too ftiff, the fly will be foon whipped off. Tour line fhould be three times the length of your tod. • ' - In lhis'kind of angling, you fhotfl3... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...certainty and ease, for if the top is too stiff the fly will be soon whipped off ; your line should be three times the length of your rod. In this kind of angling you should place yourself so that the wind may be upon your back — or, at least, you must choose such... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1868 - 520 pages
...certainty and ease, for if the top is too stiff the fly will be soon whipped off ; your line should be three times the length of your rod. In this kind of angling you should place yourself so that the wind may be upon your back — or, at least, you must choose such... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1860 - 360 pages
...certainty and ease, for if the top is too stiff, the fly will be soon whipped off. Your line should be three times the length of your rod. In this kind of angling, you should place yourself so that the wind may be upon your back; or, at least, you must choose such a... | |
 | 518 pages
...certainty and ease, for if the top is too stiff the fly will be soon whipped off; your line should he three times the length of your rod. In this kind of angling you should place yourself so that the wind may be upon your back — or, at least, you must choose such... | |
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... be three times the length of your rod. In this kind of angling you should place yourself so that the wind may be upon your back — or, at least, you must choose such a time and place that the wind may blow down the stream — and then it will assist... 