Minor tactics of the chalk stream and kindred studies
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- AGENTS
- MINOR TACTICS OF THE CHALK STREAM AND KINDRED STUDIES
- NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I OF THE BEGINNING OF THINGS
- OF THE INQUIRING MIND.
- CHAPTER II SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN NATURE
- OF THE DROWNING OF DUNS AND OTHER INSECTS.
- OF THE STAGES IN A RISE OF DUNS.
- CHAPTER III SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN ART
- OF MEDICINE FOR BULGERS.
- OF UNDER-WATER TAKING, ITS INDICATIONS, AND THE TIME TO STRIKE.
- OF ROUGH WATER AND GREY-BROWN SHADOW.
- CHAPTER IV SUPPLEMENTARY IN THE MATTER OF FLIES
- OF WET-FLY DRESSINGS FOR CHALK STREAMS.
- OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE COLOUR OF TYING SILK IN DUBBED FLIES.
- OF THE IMITATION OF NYMPHS, CADDIS, ALDER LARVÆ, AND SHRIMPS.
- CHAPTER V SPECIAL CONDITIONS AND WET-FLY SOLUTIONS
- NERVES.
- OF THE TROUT OF GLASSY GLIDES.
- OF THE WET FLY IN POOLS, BAYS, AND EDDIES.
- OF THE JUDICIOUS USE OF THE MOON.
- THE WET-FLY OIL TIP.
- OF GENERALSHIP AND THE WET FLY.
- A POTTED TROUT, AND ONE OTHER.
- OF TWO SATURDAY AFTERNOONS.
- CHAPTER VI UNCLASSIFIED
- OF HOVERING AND SOARING, AND OF CRUISING TROUT.
- OF THE PORPOISE ROLL.
- CHAPTER VII SUNDRY CONSIDERATIONS
- OF THE RELATION OF PATTERN TO THE POSITION OF TROUT, AND HEREIN OF THE TAKING OFF OF WARY WILLY.
- OF THE USE OF SPINNERS DURING THE RISE OF DUNS, AND HEREIN OF THE VAGARIES OF THE BLUE-WINGED OLIVE.
- OF GENERAL FEEDERS, AND HEREIN OF THE UNDOING OF AUNT SALLY.
- OF ATTENTION TO CASUAL FEEDERS.
- OF THE FREQUENTATION OF DITCHES, DRAINS, AND CARRIERS.
- OF THE NEGOTIATION OF TAILERS.
- OF THE FASCINATION OF BRIDGES.
- CHAPTER VIII MAINLY TACTICAL
- OF THE DELIBERATE DRAG.
- IN THE GLASS EDGE.
- OF THE CROSS-COUNTRY CAST.
- WHAT TUSSOCKS ARE FOR.
- OF THE ALLEGED MARCH BROWN.
- GENERAL FLIES AND FANCY FLIES.
- CHAPTER IX CONSIDERATIONS MORAL, TACTICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND INCIDENTAL
- OF FAITH.
- OF THE BANK OF VANTAGE.
- OF COURAGE AND THE JEOPARDIZING OF TUPPENCE HA’PENNY.
- OF IMPOSSIBLE PLACES.
- OF THE USE OF THE LANDING-NET.
- OF THE WEEDING TROUT.
- OF THE LIGHT ROD ON CHALK STREAMS.
- OF WET-FLY CASTING.
- CHAPTER X FRANKLY IRRELEVANT
- A DRY-FLY MEMORY.
- CHAPTER XI ETHICS OF THE WET FLY
- CHAPTER XII APOLOGIA
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