Angling in Salt Water. 



CHAPTER I. 



mTUOBTJCTORY, 



Fishing for Pleasure and Profit — Advantages of Fine Tachle — 

 A Cure for the Supercilious Fresh-water Angler — Angling 

 Sometimes out of the Question. 



HOUGH angling in fresli water is of very 

 great antiquity — as ancient, indeed, as it is 

 delightful — not until comparatively recent 

 years has fishing with rod and line in salt 

 water come much into vogue, and even now 

 the number of anglers who pursue that 

 branch of the sport is extremely limited. 

 In salt water fish are, generally speaking, 

 less difficult to catch than in fresh; but for all that, there 

 is a right and wrong way to catch them, and he who takes 

 the latter path had best remain at home. The sport to be 

 obtained from sea-fish is at times first-rate, and I have not 

 the least doubt but that there will be a steady increase in 

 the number of anglers in salt water. 



Between fishing for pleasure and fishing for profit there 

 are many points of difference. In fishing for profit, the one 

 thing aimed at is a great catch. Elaborate apparatus, miles 

 of nets and lines, danger, toil, hardship, ay, loss of life — 

 all are involved in bringing to our markets the many thousand 

 tons of most wholesome food which kindly Nature has placed 

 within our reach. With the angler it is very different; 



