Bottom or Float-Fishing (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Bottom or Float-Fishing

Shown to the fish, and not the slightest prowess by the fisherman. It is fish-slaughter - murder - any thing you like - but it is not Sport. The essence of sport consists in the amount of skill, difficulty.

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Excerpt from Bottom or Float-Fishing

Owing doubtless to the rapidly increasing popularity of fishing of late years, there are but few waters on which the shadow of the rod or glitter of the bait is not more or less familiar, and as a consequence fish are everywhere becoming more wary and more difficult to catch. If, therefore, we would make as large baskets as we used to do, we must "subtilise" more and more our deceptive arts, so as to keep pace with the growth of fish-intelligence; and to this end the most obvious, and on the whole the most important means, is to be sought in improving and refining to the uttermost every part of our fishing tackle.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.