SOME FAMOUS Al^GLING CLUBS 



the secretary of the Tuna Club, he becomes, virtually, an honour- 

 ary member of the club during his visit. Ordinarily it would 

 take a visitor several days to get his bearings, but with this 

 alliance he is posted at once, obtains the best boatman, and meets 

 the members who are delighted to extend to the guests every 

 possible courtesy and attention. I shall always hold in delightful 

 remembrance my own reception by the members of the British 

 Sea Anglers Society and the men I met ; this is also true of the 

 Fly Fishers Club. I had long been honorary vice-president 

 of the former, while the latter honoured me with an honorary 

 life membership. 



It is often the fate of such clubs not to receive public 

 recognition, but this is not the case in England. This friendly 

 organized body of authors, anglers, and distinguished men, 

 embracing all the learned professors in its membership, has a 

 distinct influence in Great Britain along the line of fish protection, 

 conservation, and particularly in elevating the standards of 

 sport. The Club includes in its membership some of England's 

 most distinguished sportsmen and anglers. The president. 

 Lord Desborough, is well known in America as a big game hunter 

 and tarpon angler. 



While the British Sea Anglers Society devotes itself to sea 

 angling, the Fly Fishers Club in Piccadilly is as influential in its 

 own distinctive field, and one of the most delightful clubs in this 

 great city of clubs, impossible anywhere else in the world except 

 in England, where a love of sport has been handed down gener- 

 ation after generation from the time of the Anglo-Saxons who 

 long ago took the big salmon of English streams with spear and 

 bow. The Fly Fishers Club has an atmosphere all its own, and 

 in its delightful rooms, the walls covered with big trout and 

 trophies, its incomparable library, its fly room where the member 

 can make his own flies, the collection of all the living flies of 

 England from many if not all of her famous trout and salmon 

 streams, all this, and much more, renders it the vade mecum in 

 this direction, the last word in angling clubs. The founder 



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