CHAPTER VI 

 FISHING AS A SPORT 



Angling Salmon-fishing Tackle Ireland and Norway Pucatorfit, 

 non nascitur Casting A. real bite A long spell of hard work 

 * Sulking "Gaffing Fishing in the Jotunfeld High jumpers 

 To America for sport The tarpon Tarpon-tackle A nasty sea 

 A big leap Towed along Fairly hooked Sharks ! Other 

 sport. 



ALTHOUGH this book deals chiefly with the fisheries 

 which are important industries, space must be 

 found for a few pages on the subject of fishing 

 as it is undertaken by amateurs. 



If there is an angling that is the lazy man's sport an 

 excuse for spending tranquil hours in pleasant scenery 

 there is also an angling that requires undivided attention, 

 perseverance, skill, endurance, and often physical strength, 

 and those who devote themselves to it may justly rank 

 as higher-grade sportsmen, the equals and often the 

 superiors of the deer-stalkers. 



Salmon-fishing comes under the second class ; in fact 

 it stands well ahead of all other branches of angling. 

 From the details given in the last chapter it will have 

 been seen that this fish spends the greater part of its 

 time in rivers, and that much of that time is taken up 

 with spawning. The close season for rod-and-line salmon- 

 fishing does not begin till two months after that for 



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