The Angler's Companion to the Rivers and Lochs of Scotland
- ISBN-10
- 1230240551
- ISBN-13
- 9781230240558
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Thomas Tod Stoddart
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... food and habits. ii the minutest description--the larva? of water-insects or pellets of ova, picked up with address and assiduity from among the interstices of rocks and stones, from the foliage or roots of water-plants, or while floating past it in the descending current. And this caprice as to its food, while it tests the skill and experience of the angler, is assisted in doing so by the cunning and natural mistrust of the fish; its quick vigilant eye; its keen distinguishing sense of smell, and similar instinctive endowments and perceptions. The wariness and caution observable in trout frequenting certain localities are often, in fact, the result of circumstances, and indicate the existence of memory and other reflecting powers. It is not necessary, however, that a trout be pricked with the hook, in order to give so uncommon a degree of acuteness to its faculties, and render it more than ordinarily circumspect; the circumstance of its being frequently disturbed by the apparition of an insect clumsily imitated, or tackle of any other description, will of itself produce this effect. The disposition, also, of light and shadow near its haunt, the description and quantity of sustenance yielded within its feeding range, all subserve to create or banish distrust, to add to its wariness, or lull its suspicions. On the other hand, the pricking of the hook, unaccompanied by any exposure of the angler's contrivance wherewith the pricking was effected, will often fail to excite alarm. I could relate, were it necessary, many occurrences, met with from time to time, which prove that trout, although pricked, and actually retaining the hook in their lip or jaw, are not necessarily excited to distrust or suspicion, or thereby, through the continued...
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