THE GAME PISHES OF THE WOELD 



of the club is Mr. Marston, the distinguished editor and author, 

 as well known in America as in England. 



One is bewildered with the angling clubs of England and 

 even of London alone. But when one remembers that London 

 has something lite eight million inhabitants and the majority 

 of her intelligent dwellers go a-fishing, or dream of it, it can be 

 tmderstood. When I was in England, in 1910, the anglers of 

 Glasgow were organizing a Sea Anglers Society, and I had the 

 pleasure of meeting them in the rooms of the Glasgow Fly Fishers' 

 rooms ; a deKghtful club made up of the distiuguished scholars 

 and anglers of Glasgow. Another interesting and I think the 

 oldest club in Scotland I visited was the Edinburgh Salmon Cliib 

 on the Tweed, where I made my first cast with a typical long heavy 

 salmon rod. What I caught I leave for my host to tell. 



A mere enumeration of the angUng clubs of Great Britain 

 would make material for a book, I recall the Blenheim Angling 

 Society, the City of London Piscatorial Society, the Llandudno 

 Sea Anglers Association, United Brothers Angling Association, 

 the Norwich Angling Club, the Aberystwyth Angling Associaton, 

 Bramtree and Bocking Angling Association, Eye Home (Herts) 

 Angling Club, Thames Angling Preservation Society, Hull and 

 District Amalgamated Anglers Association, IS'orthern Angling 

 Association, County Palantine AngUng Association, Barbourne 

 Angling Club, Otley and District Angling Chib, and many more. 



Across the Channel the Casting Club of France, of which Prince 

 Pierre d'Arenberg, as president, is shaping affairs piscatorial, 

 so that the rivers of France will be protected and that valuable 

 asset for state or nation — ^good fishing — ^be the result. The 

 tournaments of the Casting Club attract many anglers from 

 England and America. 



It is said that there are two hundred thousand anglers in New 

 York City who fish the lower river and go down the bay, and 

 while clubs are not in evidence, as in England, due possibly to the 

 cosmopolitan nature of the people, there are many fly-casting 

 and bait-casting clubs which have a strong and virile influence 

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