CHAPTER XX 



ANGLING 



41 ... which, as in no other game 

 A man may fish and praise His name. " 



W. BASSE. 



"I chose of foure good dysportes and honeste gamys, that is to 

 wyte: of huntynge: hawkynge: fysshynge: and foulynge. The 

 best to my symple dyscrecon why then is fysshynge: called 

 Anglynge with a rodde: and a line and an hoke. " DAME JULIANA 

 BERNERS, The Treaty se of Fysshynge wyth an Angle, 1496. 



" If the bending rod and the ringing reel 

 Give proof that you've fastened the tempered steel, 

 Be sure that the battle is but begun 

 And not till he's landed is victory won." 



AUTHOR UNKNOWN. 



Fair and Foul Angling. Anybody can catch a 

 trout with a worm. This is the bait of the boy and 

 the boatman. The Angler gives the trout a fair battle 

 with the artificial fly. Comparing live-bait fishing 

 to artificial fly angling is like comparing blacksmithry 

 to jewel working, bronco breaking to genteel horse- 

 manship, or buccaneering to yachting. 



Refinement of Angling. Angling is fishing governed 

 by rules of chivalry correct tackle, limit in the catch, 

 and humane treatment of the game. 



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