Fishcraft; A Treatise on Fresh Water Fish and Fishing, with Comments on the Haunts and Characteristics of the Principal Game Fishes and Food Fishes, M (Paperback)

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. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... SELECTED LINES TN making up his outfit for angling, A the fisher always finds it necessary to take special care in selection of his lines. In like manner, it seems desirable that some very appropriate lines, cast with such delicacy and precision that they must prove pleasing and instructive to the reader, be selected from the array presented by able angler-authors, and re-assembled in form for ready reference, herein. The novice will find that by carefully reading and closely following the lines, he can more readily put the precepts into practice, thereby making the pathway easier to success in reaching the goal of success as a scientific angler: The Expert Fly-fisher.--To be a finished wet-fly angler one must possess as muck skill as the dry-fly fisherman.--Emlyn M. Gill. The Complete Angler.--Walton's book is as freshand beautiful as a handful of wild violets and sweet lavender. It breathes the odors of green fields and woods. The Careful Angler.--His rule in fishing was to fish in the difficult places which others were likely to skip.--Daniel Webster. The Home Angler.--The "sporting" element among fishermen haven't any fine sensibilities. The true anglers fish for edible fish only for their own use and the use of their families.--"Piscator." The Lost Angler.--Remember that water always is supposed to run south, save in a few instances where it runs direct north or west from the mountains, as the Red River in Minnesota, flowing north, for instance. This certainly would be a misleader. But as a rule water runs south. Follow it. Along streams man makes his abode.--Robert Page Lincoln. Fly vs. Worm.--That fly-fishing is clean, and free from the muscular efforts of mountain-climbing; that it is usually rewarded with larger fish than those...