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tation of these gut lines in England, “and in¬ 
different strong, too.” He does not think so 
highly of it as of the original, but admits that 
it would hold a good-sized fish “if she is not too 
violent, and does not too nimbly harness herself 
among weeds and roots of trees where she can¬ 
not be pulled out.” This is the earliest refer¬ 
ence to silkworm gut that I have found in 
English angling books, and on looking Mr. 
Saunders up in Bibliotheca Piscatoria I find that 
Messrs. Westwood and Satchel -1 mention the 
passage -quoted, and say that it is the earliest. 
They also quote a writer in the Field of Jan. 2, 
1864 , to show that gut was probably introduced 
as a marketable commodity about 1760. That it 
was not unknown, however, considerably before 
this date Saunders’s book proves. 
In other respects “The Complete Fisherman” is 
not a very noteworthy volume, and it contains 
little that was new even in 1724, but it has a 
few passages which are amusing. Of the arti¬ 
ficial fly the author evidently had small knowl¬ 
edge. He gives a list of trout flies as a sort of 
concession to what he evidently thought to 
be popular prejudice—“if the angler is curious 
enough to vex himself with the throng of them” 
—but has no faith in numbers. “Experience has 
taught us to know that three or four sorts c-f 
artificial flies, and which he may buy in every 
shop in Crookedlane, will supply him for the 
whole season of fishing.” There is something 
prophetic about this, for many of us nowadays 
sigh for simplicity in our fly boxes, though few 
attain to it. Nor has James Saunders much 
sympathy with the spirit of scientific inquiry. 
When on the subject of worms he writes: 
“The pretended instructors of the angling 
gentry have only reckoned up all the insects and 
creeping things they can find, or read of in the 
world, and have christened them by as many 
hard names as they can think of, to make the 
preparing baits for the hooks seem a matter 
of great difficulty and art.” 
“All the baits used in fishing for a trout are 
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ing; for ’tis very rare that the salmon is fished 
for with a fly, or that he will bite at a fly; if he 
will take a fly, the same may be used, and in 
the same manner managed as for a trout, but 
the sport is not worth the patience.” 
There are times when the last sentence might 
adequately express modern sentiments on the 
subject, but it would be a temporary aberration. 
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