APPENDIX 



SEA FISHING IN EUROPE 



By the editor 



ANYONE with a knowledge of the Continental sporting taste would have 

 -^~^ expected the gun, even if not perhaps in quite the extreme degree 

 noticeable in the foregoing pages, to monopolise most of the available space 

 in a composite work on Sport in Europe. Fishing is confined, in many 

 Continental countries, to the poorer class, whose methods are generally 

 antiquated, and generally also stand on the border line between sport and 

 poaching ; in some, the wealthier sporting classes are gradually introducing, 

 by way of experiment, English methods of hatching, preserving, and even 

 catching fish ; while in one or two, the best fishing waters are in the hands 

 of English sportsmen either residing abroad or else visiting those t^arts during 

 the salmon season. One branch of fishing has, however, been neglected 

 beyond the rest, and that is sea fishing. It cannot, perhaps, be claimed 

 that angling in salt water has finally established itself in the minds of all 

 as a sport, even at home, but it has at any rate gained of late years 

 many adherents, for reasons that it is here unnecessary to set down. Having 

 regard, then, for its somewhat uncertain position, it has been thought best, 

 without breaking the continuity of the foregoing accounts with any intro- 

 duction of notes on sea fishing, to offer in the form of an appendix a few 

 notes on the sea fishing of Europe viewed generally. With the exception 

 of a casual mention of weevers on the Dutch coast, and of the " Infer " and 

 " leverak " in Turkish waters, contributors have consistently neglected this 

 branch of sport 



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