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id: 26116
author: Barker, Thomas, active 1651
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title:
  The Art of Angling Wherein are discovered many rare secrets, very necessary to be knowne by all that delight in that recreation

summary:
  I will shew you the way to marrionate a Trout or other fish that will keep a quarter of a yeare in Summer, which is the Italians rarest Dish for fresh fish, and will eat perfect and sweet. He that Angles with a Line made of three haired links at the bottom, and more at the top, may kill Fish: but he that Angles with one hair shall kill five Trouts to the others one; for the Trout is very quick sighted; therefore the best way for night or day, is to keep out of the sight.


id: 29098
author: Bradford, Charles Barker
title: Black Bass Where to catch them in quantity within an hour's ride from New York
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flesch: 76
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summary:
  The main object of this paper on black bass fishing is to supply that knowledge to a large contingent, and also to give a few hints to those, who, fond of fishing, may still be open to a few practical hints. In order to appreciate black bass fishing to the full, considerable attention most assuredly must be paid to suitable tackle.


id: 33045
author: Unknown
title: The Ranidae: How to breed, feed and raise the edible frog
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words: 6400
sentence: 292
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Many farmers already have Frog ponds, and at a greater profit than any other investment they have on their farm of a like amount. Nursery ponds should be constructed to afford young protection from enemies and to produce the greatest quantity of insect life suited for their sustenance, and this is better accomplished with a number of small ponds than with one large one.


id: 34672
author: Abbott, Henry
title: Fish Stories
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sentence: 306
flesch: 74
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summary:
  About this time, a yellow perch who also was hunting a breakfast, discovered a minnow who had strayed into deep water far from his home. Suddenly, both disappeared under water.


id: 43177
author: Coker, R. E. (Robert Ervin)
title: The Protection of Fresh-Water Mussels
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words: 9993
sentence: 371
flesch: 58
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summary:
  Mussels are sometimes measured in length or width or height, but on account of the irregular form of mussel shells these dimensions are not always interpreted in the same way. If, for example, the entire Illinois River should be closed to mussel fishery for a period of several years, there might be a substantial uncompensated loss to some communities, where there are factories employing labor to cut shells derived from that river.


id: 37278
author: Barnes, Orange Perry
title: Fly Fishing in Wonderland
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sentence: 544
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The blob or miller's thumb existed in the Gibbon river, and perhaps in other streams, above the falls. * * * * * Then there are Slough Creek, Hell-Roaring Creek, East Fork, Trout Lake, and a host of other streams and lakes that have been favorite resorts with anglers for years, and in which may be taken the very leviathans of six, seven, eight, and even ten, pounds' weight.


id: 2422
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Introduction to the Compleat Angler
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words: 11849
sentence: 562
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Walton has:-- 'The first is the dun fly in March: the body is made of dun wool, the wings of the partridge's feathers. Walton has:-- 'The twelfth is the dark drake-fly, good in August: the body made with black wool, lapt about with black silk, his wings are made with the mail of the black drake, with a black head.


id: 40446
author: Tayler, James
title: Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing
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words: 15147
sentence: 610
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The great points are to keep well out of sight, and to imitate the descent of the natural fly on the water, which in the case of the smaller flies is as soft and gentle as a piece of thistle-down; but with the larger ones, such as the drakes and moths, whose bodies are heavy in proportion to the size of their wings, compared with other flies, let them fall with a slight spat on the water, causing a ring to take place on the surface, and letting the fish know it is there. The attempt to capture trout, which are seen to rise at natural flies, is in itself an excitement which no other method possesses.


id: 26072
author: Senior, William
title: Scotch Loch-Fishing
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words: 16495
sentence: 637
flesch: 75
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summary:
  The hooks attached to the larger sizes should be mounted on gimp, as in trolling for large fish--and especially for _salmo ferox_--no risk should be run of the mountings giving way. In striking small fish, the least tightening of the line is sufficient; but with large fish, when your tackle and hooks are strong, strike _firmly home_ to send the steel well in, right over the barb.


id: 30292
author: Gregg, Ellery Clark
title: How to Tie Flies
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words: 15447
sentence: 702
flesch: 80
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summary:
  None of the short-cuts employed by those whose business is quantity production will be attempted. I sincerely encourage you to begin at the beginning, and by careful and patient study the satisfactory result will be the ability to make flies that are second to none.


id: 17171
author: Various
title: New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century
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sentence: 658
flesch: 66
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summary:
  There still survived salmon fisheries in the following rivers, namely, the Penobscot, the Kennebec, the Denny's, the East Machias, the Saint Croix, and the Aroostook, a tributary of the Saint John. The dealers in our city have retailed this season 50 tons Penobscot salmon, and about 3 tons Saint John salmon; it all sells as Penobscot salmon.


id: 17475
author: Cobb, John N. (John Nathan)
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words: 16978
sentence: 663
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899

summary:
  Provided, however_, If it appears that it was intended to liberate them in accordance with the provisions of this act, the persons having such lobsters in possession shall not be liable to any of the penalties herein provided for, though he may have failed, for any cause not within his control, to so liberate them. SEC. Said marking shall be placed in a plain and legible manner on the outside of such barrel, boxes, or other packages; and in case of seizure by any duly authorized officer of any barrels, boxes, or other packages in transit, containing lobsters, which are not so marked, or in case of seizure by such officer of barrels, boxes, or other packages in transit containing lobsters less than the prescribed length, such lobsters as are alive and less than the prescribed length shall be liberated and all such lobsters as are of the prescribed length found in such barrels, boxes, or packages, together with such barrels, boxes, and packages, shall be forfeited and disposed of under the provisions of section 47 of this act. SEC.


id: 35351
author: Cleveland, Grover
title: Fishing and Shooting Sketches
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words: 17965
sentence: 503
flesch: 49
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summary:
  Nor can we of the brotherhood of true fishermen always shield ourselves from the reproach to which we are subjected by those who steal our livery and disgrace it by casting aside all manly liberality in their intercourse with other fishermen and all considerate self-restraint in their intercourse with fish. What sense is there in the charge of laziness sometimes made against true fishermen?


id: 39321
author: Walker, Charles Edward
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words: 19691
sentence: 1139
flesch: 79
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title:
  Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies

summary:
  Imitations of other flies made with the wings in the natural position have served me as well as did my imitation of the Alder, though I was not inclined to try the ordinary patterns so freely on every occasion as I was at the first trial. In order to imitate this large thorax, it is necessary to have more room on the hook above the hackle and wings than in other flies to leave room for a turn of the chenille, of which the body is made, just below the head of the fly.


id: 36821
author: Penn, Richard
title: Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing
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words: 13803
sentence: 515
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Amongst good players, it is considered to be as much an indispensable condition of the game, that a piece once touched must be moved, as that the queen is not allowed to have the knight's, or a rook the bishop's move. Of those who have had more practice, some have acquired a partial insight into the endless variety of the combinations which may be formed, and their beautiful intricacy:--a few play moderately well; but, however small the number of good players may be, it would be difficult to find any one who, after having played a few hundred games, would not think it an imputation on his good sense to be considered a very bad player;--and this is the universal feeling, although it is well known that men of the highest attainments have studied Chess without great success; and that the most celebrated players have not always been men of distinguished talents.


id: 46169
author: Camp, Samuel G. (Samuel Granger)
title: Fishing with Floating Flies
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sentence: 673
flesch: 57
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summary:
  The manner of casting a fly is best described by an explanation of the overhead cast--the typical cast although by no means the one exclusively used in fly fishing, and in dry fly fishing, for reasons stated below, a cast which is used only when the horizontal cast is for any reason rendered difficult. The demands of dry fly casting on the rod are exacting in the extreme.


id: 18320
author: Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
title: Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
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sentence: 2756
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Clark; _Monosiga gracilis_ S. Kent; _M. globulosa_ S. Kent; _Codonosiga pyriformis_ Kent; _C. grossularia_ _Anoplophrya branchiarum_ Stein.


id: 26632
author: Wharton, James
title: The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia
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sentence: 1403
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Of all which myself has seen great quantity taken, especially the last summer at Smith's Island at one haul a frigate's lading of sturgeon, bass, and other great fish in Captain Argall's seine, and even at the very place which is not above fifteen miles from Point Comfort. It was only a question of time before the Virginia colonists would, though surrounded all the while by their own huge marine resources, subsist on salt fish from the North.


id: 28719
author: Lambert, Thomas Wilson
title: Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina
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words: 34244
sentence: 1341
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The artificial minnow of various kinds, the spoon, and the dead bait on a crocodile or Archer spinner are all used, and the prawn has lately been tried with deadly effect on large fish. It would be quite easy to put boats on them should the need arise, and larger fish are reported to abound in some of them.


id: 2022
author: Lang, Andrew
title: Angling Sketches
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sentence: 1586
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Another trial seemed desirable, and the number of rising trout was most tempting. And we, too, feel but little change among those scenes of long ago, those best-beloved haunts of boyhood, where we have had so many good days and bad, days of rising trout and success; days of failure, and even of half-drowning.


id: 15035
author: Rich, Walter H. (Walter Herbert)
title: Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine
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flesch: 83
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summary:
  A comparatively little known and apparently as yet unnamed ridge lies E. by S. 15 miles from the buoy on Cashes Ledge, which is reported to be good fishing ground, especially for cod and cusk. At various points about the edges of Jeffreys Ledge are small detached ridges, which in their season are good fishing grounds.


id: 9198
author: Walton, Izaak
title: The Complete Angler 1653
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sentence: 1720
flesch: 82
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summary:
  And the baits for this bold fish are not many; I mean, he will bite as well at some, or at any of these three, as at any or all others whatsoever; a _Worm_, a _Minnow_, or a little _Frog_ (of which you may find many in hay time) and of _worms_, the Dunghill worm, called a _brandling_, I take to be best, being well scowred in Moss or Fennel; and if you fish for a _Pearch_ with a _Minnow_, then it is best to be alive, you sticking your hook through his back fin, and letting him swim up and down about mid-water, or a little lower, and you still keeping him to about that depth, by a Cork, which ought not to be a very light one: and the like way you are to fish for the _Pearch_ with a small _Frog_, your hook being fastened through the skin of his leg, towards the upper part of it: And lastly, I will give you but this advise, that you give the _Pearch_ time enough when he bites, for there was scarse ever any _Angler_ that has given him too much. Eeles_ abound so much, that many of the poorer sort of people, that inhabit near to it, take such _Eeles_ out of this Mere, with sieves or sheets, and make a kind of _Eele-cake_ of them, and eat it like as bread.


id: 43874
author: Hart-Davis, H. V.
title: Chats on Angling
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words: 44024
sentence: 1714
flesch: 74
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summary:
  One day I went up one of the upper feeding streams, where I had often, poor performer though I may be, secured a really good basket of good fish. You take up your station and watch the water carefully, especially the one or two spots near the opposite bank that you know full well ought to be occupied by good fish.


id: 37856
author: Bradford, Charles Barker
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words: 44124
sentence: 2076
flesch: 77
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title:
  The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle

summary:
  There are hundreds of natural trout flies and hundreds of artificial trout flies, imitations of the living insects, used as lures in fishing. Trout Fly-Fishing in America_: In reply to your question about trout flies, 'Am I right?'


id: 33846
author: Paine, Albert Bigelow
title: The Tent Dwellers
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sentence: 2483
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Yet I must not fail to add here that a few days later, in other water, both Eddie and his guide made good their wager. It was his idea that it would be full of little trout.


id: 35752
author: Blacker, W. (William)
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title:
  Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. Comprising Angling, & Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon & Trout Flies

summary:
  There are no hackles used in the spring, till a little further on in the season, then hackle flies are used; the wren tails of different sorts are very much prized, and the light red-brown grouse hackle, and yellow body; a blue body fly, black hackle, and wings of the starling; a gosling green olive fly, with mallard wings, mixed with landrail, and a hook No. 8 or 10; a fly with a yellow body of silk, red hackle dyed yellow, starling wing mixed with mallard, and a little partridge tail; the golden wren is good; a very small black gnat is good; and the never-failing blue blow. The reader will lay out his materials before him on the table, which consist of hook, gut, wings, hackle, feather for tail, body of fur, floss silk, or peacock harl, silk to rib it, wax, tying silk, &c., all things now ready, proceed as follows:--Wax a piece of fine China silk, about a foot in length; if it is spool or ribbon silk, twist two pieces together, and take one end between your teeth, twisting with your fingers and thumbs, not too much; take the other end in the left, and wax it up and down till it is covered with the wax all over; you may pin it on your knee as in the first plan, and wax it; take the hook by the bend in the left hand, say a No. 6 or 7 to begin with, placing your silk just waxed on the shank under your left thumb nail, and give two or three turns of the silk towards you, flatten the end of the gut a little, and tie it on to the hook about half way down the shank, at the same time hold the gut and hook tightly between your nails, and shift it as you go up or down, on the hook shank with the tying silk; the hook firmly tied on, take out one of the wing feathers of the hen pheasant, and cut out of the centre of it two equal pieces to compose the wings, (see the piece cut out for the trout fly wing in the plate of Feathers), you lay these two pieces together even at the points, take them between the nails of the right hand, place them on the end of the shank between the finger and thumb of the left, and give two or three turns of the silk over them tightly, winding the silk towards you, cut off the roots of the feather slantingly with your scissars, as this swells the fly at the shoulder when forming the body; the wings are now tied the reverse way, (see No. 7 Plate, at the sign of the picker.)


id: 683
author: Walton, Izaak
title: The Compleat Angler
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words: 66149
sentence: 1745
flesch: 68
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summary:
  And, for that: First you shall observe, that usually he stays not long in a place, as Trouts will, but, as I said, covets still to go nearer the spring-head: and that he does not, as the Trout and many other fish, lie near the water-side or bank, or roots of trees, but swims in the deep and broad parts of the water, and usually in the middle, and near the ground, and that there you are to fish for him, and that he is to be caught, as the Trout is, with a worm, a minnow which some call a peek, or with a fly. I might here speak of many other fish, whose shape and nature are much like the Eel, and frequent both the sea and fresh rivers; as, namely, the Lamprel, the Lamprey, and the Lamperne: as also of the mighty Conger, taken often in Severn, about Gloucester: and might also tell in what high esteem many of them are for the curiosity of their taste.


id: 29346
author: Grey, Zane
title: Tales of Fishes
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sentence: 5418
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Always there will be greater fish in the ocean than I have ever caught. This must have been a lane for big fish to come inside the barrier.


id: 46680
title: Fishing with the Fly Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies
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words: 76394
sentence: 3367
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Brown Hackles, Bed Ibis, Professor, Queen of the Water, and other trout flies are also killing; but the first-mentioned fly, whose name I do not know, owing to a defective memory and the vagaries of fly nomenclature, is the most killing, and a cast into the upper edge of a pool below a rapid is usually most successful. They are large trout flies and won honorable retirement by catching three small-mouthed black bass at one and the same time.


id: 23343
author: Senior, William
title: Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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sentence: 3312
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Let this indication, then, cover several days, and no more about it, except that the time arrived when I caught a fish badly scored by seals, which infested the tideway, and that I worked hard for odd hits and misses with small fish on other days. They succeeded in destroying millions of immature trout and other fish, and ruining completely a remunerative and useful industry.


id: 40018
author: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander)
title: Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others
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words: 91749
sentence: 4099
flesch: 75
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summary:
  It is quite a good game-fish and very voracious, eagerly taking sea-crawfish, crab, conch, or small fish bait. They are surface feeders, and swim in large schools in quest of menhaden, scup, and other small fishes.


id: 48195
author: Belding, David Lawrence
title: A Report upon the Mollusk Fisheries of Massachusetts
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sentence: 4662
flesch: 68
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summary:
  SCALLOP PRODUCTION FOR MASSACHUSETTS.[12] ===================================================================== YEAR. | Production | Production | Production | Value of | for Food | for Bait | (Bushels).


