Angling for Coarse Fish 



CHAPTER I. 



80ME GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



Fresh and Salt-water Fish of the United Kingdom — Haunts 

 of Coarse Fish in Summer and Winter — Effect of Floods 

 and Colour in Water — Use and Importance of Ground 

 bait, &c., &c. 



N attempting a concise treatise on angling I 

 am obliged, somewhat against my will, to 

 confine my remarks solely to the practical 

 portions of the subject, and to eschew that 

 pleasant chit-chat about fish-lore, curious 

 angling incidents, and the pleasures of the 

 sport, on which writers on fishing have 

 delighted to dilate since the time of 

 worthy Isaak Walton. This being an eminently practical age, 

 the omission, which enables a careful description of tackle 

 and methods of angling to be given, may not be regarded 

 altogether as a defect, especially as there is little or nothing 

 new to be added to the more ornamental portions of the subject. 

 I am going to start with the assumption that a number 

 of my readers have never handled a rod, for too many writers 

 have ignored the A B C of the subject, and thus made their 

 works only of use to persons already possessing a fair knowledge 

 of fish and fishing. From the A B 0, I propose to gradually 

 lead up to the X T Z, by which algebraical formula I mean 



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