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that several writers wrote treatises or poems on fishing 

 centuries before the Christian era. 



Old Angling Books. 1486 The Booke of St. Albans; 

 by Dame Juliana Berners. 1590 Booke of Fishing 

 with Hook and Line; by Leonard Mascall. 1596 

 Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing; by W. C. 

 Faukener. i6o6-^Booke of Angling or Fishing; by 

 Samuel Gardner, D.D. 1651 Art of Angling; by 

 Thomas Barker (the second edition of this book, 

 published in 1657, was issued under the title of Barker's 

 Delight). 1652 Young Sportsman's Delight and In- 

 structor in Angling, etc.; by Gervase Markham. 1653 

 The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's 

 Recreation, etc.; by Izaak Walton (the second edition, 

 almost rewritten by the author, appeared in 1655). 

 1662 Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved; by 

 Robert Venables. 1676 Angler's Delight, etc.; 

 by William Gilbert. 1681 Angler's Vade Mecum; by 

 Chetham. 1682 Complete Trotter; by Nobles. 1696 

 The True Art of Angling; by J. S. 



Carrying the Rod. Joint your rod only when you 

 reach the place of angling, and take it apart again 

 when you are ready to leave the water for camp, 

 unless the camp is on the edge of the lake or stream. 

 When angling along thickly wooded banks, carry the 

 rod in front of you, tip first, pointing the tip through 

 the bushes you penetrate; never pull it after you. 

 Fasten the hook on one of the reel bars, and then 

 thrust the rod's tip through the branches or shrub- 

 bery ahead of you when you move along, casting here 

 and there. This is not necessary when one only moves 

 a step or two, for then, if there be open space, the rod 



