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Sea Fishing - For the Beginner
Sea Fishing - For the Beginner
Sea Fishing - For the Beginner
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Sea Fishing - For the Beginner

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This early work is a fascinating read for any fisherman containing much information and anecdote that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include: Introduction; The Outfit; Bottom Feeding Fish, Etc.; The Cod, The Whiting, Pouting, The Haddock, The Hake, The Plaice, The Dab, The Flounder, Skate, The Conger, The Gurnards, The Common Bream, The Black Bream, Wrasse; Sporting Fish: The Bass, The Pollack, The Coalfish, Grey Mullet, Mackerel, The Tope; and Where and When to Fish. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 6, 2015
ISBN9781473395121
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    Sea Fishing - For the Beginner - Drift-Liner'

    INTRODUCTION

    THE institution and rise of sea angling may be said to date from 1893, when a meeting of enthusiastic anglers, amongst whom should be mentioned F. G. Aflalo, and John Bickerdyke, was held in London, with a view to the founding of a Society to adopt the rod and line, as used for the taking of fresh-water fish, for sea fishing, in place of the heavy handline and weights of the professional fishermen, who naturally used the tackle that would take as large a number of food fish as was possible in the shortest time.

    The foundation of the British Sea Anglers’ Society, in the year mentioned, attracted a large number of anglers who saw the possibilities of a wider range for their sport under novel conditions, and their experiences have called for the adoption of rods and tackle suitable for the different classes of fish to be found in our

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