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The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water

Charles Henry Cook

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Description:INTRODUCTION.The "All-round Angler," after all, may be said to represent the masses of the brotherhood. What there is in the delightful sport of angling that is simple, economical, and universal, is most decidedly his. Old father Izaak was in a pre-eminent degree an all-round angler; while his friend Cotton was, perhaps, more of a specialist, devoted rather to the crystal streams of the Derbyshire dales, and their trout and grayling, than to the meadows of the Lea, along which the tuneful milkmaid came to tend her kine. In these days of improved railway and steamboat communication, of developed angling literature, and of multiplying angling associations, the specialists increase, no doubt, in a fair ratio; and it is no uncommon thing to meet with sportsmen who boast that they have never used any but a fly-rod, and have not deemed it worthy of themselves to descend to any fish but the salmonidce, which, by common consent (though with somewhat of a stretch of meaning), we, in these days, term the game fishes par excellence. This exclusive-ness is often a matter of early training.But, alas! it does not fall to the lot of every man to be born on the banks of a salmon-river or trout-stream, and to be able to learn the rudiments of the art by practising upon the aristocracy of the waters. Had it happened to all of us to kill salmon with a fly before we were out of round jackets, we too might nourish a bias in favour of such lordly species, and resolve that, so far as in us lay, we would not stoop to meaner game. Butsucli was not the lot of the majority of the anglers of Great Britain. "We had perforce to make the most of our chances, catch gudgeon, perch, or roach, for want of better, and look upon the big pike or lusty trout as legitimate objects of ambition.Nor is it too much to say that the all-round angler can very well afford to smile at the conceit of those who do not follow him in his modest practices. He gets the lion's share of rural delights, for his is, more truly than can be the case with the salmon or trout-fisher, the contemplative man's recreation. All this has been expressed again and again in poetry and prose, and Dendy Sadler, by his charming angling pictures, ever keeps the idea foremost. The seat by the river bank on a summer evening, when the swallows dart and the song-birds are in high chorus, what time the lowing herds come down to the ford to drink, and the labourers file slowly across the plank bridge on their way to the cottage, from whose chimney the thin blue smoke ascends straight into the clear air—this is a veritable throne of state in the palace of Nature. The angler may wait a long while before the well-watched float disappears beneath the surface, but he can possess his soul in patience under such circumstances. The situation is one of complete restfulness, of innocent and beautiful surroundings; and patience becomes an easy virtue when all the senses are lulled by the sights and sounds of water, wood, and field.The all-round angler, however, is not debarred from the exercise of the highest branches of the sport. The mere bottom fisher, who does not spin for pike, or cast fly for salmon, trout, or grayling, is not an all-round angler in the true meaning of the phrase. Here, as in other matters, the greater includes the lesser, and the true sportsman is he who can settle down with equal zeal and enjoyment to the luring of the gudgeon from the raked-up gravel of the ordinary coarse-fish streamINTEODTJCTION. XVUof the shires, or to the killing of a chalk-stream trout upon the tiniest floating fly.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water. To get started finding The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: INTRODUCTION.The "All-round Angler," after all, may be said to represent the masses of the brotherhood. What there is in the delightful sport of angling that is simple, economical, and universal, is most decidedly his. Old father Izaak was in a pre-eminent degree an all-round angler; while his friend Cotton was, perhaps, more of a specialist, devoted rather to the crystal streams of the Derbyshire dales, and their trout and grayling, than to the meadows of the Lea, along which the tuneful milkmaid came to tend her kine. In these days of improved railway and steamboat communication, of developed angling literature, and of multiplying angling associations, the specialists increase, no doubt, in a fair ratio; and it is no uncommon thing to meet with sportsmen who boast that they have never used any but a fly-rod, and have not deemed it worthy of themselves to descend to any fish but the salmonidce, which, by common consent (though with somewhat of a stretch of meaning), we, in these days, term the game fishes par excellence. This exclusive-ness is often a matter of early training.But, alas! it does not fall to the lot of every man to be born on the banks of a salmon-river or trout-stream, and to be able to learn the rudiments of the art by practising upon the aristocracy of the waters. Had it happened to all of us to kill salmon with a fly before we were out of round jackets, we too might nourish a bias in favour of such lordly species, and resolve that, so far as in us lay, we would not stoop to meaner game. Butsucli was not the lot of the majority of the anglers of Great Britain. "We had perforce to make the most of our chances, catch gudgeon, perch, or roach, for want of better, and look upon the big pike or lusty trout as legitimate objects of ambition.Nor is it too much to say that the all-round angler can very well afford to smile at the conceit of those who do not follow him in his modest practices. He gets the lion's share of rural delights, for his is, more truly than can be the case with the salmon or trout-fisher, the contemplative man's recreation. All this has been expressed again and again in poetry and prose, and Dendy Sadler, by his charming angling pictures, ever keeps the idea foremost. The seat by the river bank on a summer evening, when the swallows dart and the song-birds are in high chorus, what time the lowing herds come down to the ford to drink, and the labourers file slowly across the plank bridge on their way to the cottage, from whose chimney the thin blue smoke ascends straight into the clear air—this is a veritable throne of state in the palace of Nature. The angler may wait a long while before the well-watched float disappears beneath the surface, but he can possess his soul in patience under such circumstances. The situation is one of complete restfulness, of innocent and beautiful surroundings; and patience becomes an easy virtue when all the senses are lulled by the sights and sounds of water, wood, and field.The all-round angler, however, is not debarred from the exercise of the highest branches of the sport. The mere bottom fisher, who does not spin for pike, or cast fly for salmon, trout, or grayling, is not an all-round angler in the true meaning of the phrase. Here, as in other matters, the greater includes the lesser, and the true sportsman is he who can settle down with equal zeal and enjoyment to the luring of the gudgeon from the raked-up gravel of the ordinary coarse-fish streamINTEODTJCTION. XVUof the shires, or to the killing of a chalk-stream trout upon the tiniest floating fly.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water. To get started finding The Book of the All-Round Angler: A Comprehensive Treatise on Angling in Both Fresh and Salt Water, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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