Excerpt from The Practical Fisherman: Dealing With the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making, IllustratedAt the appearance of another treatise on the gentle craft. So many works on this charming subject have been written and published, from Oppian to the present time, that another would seem super¿uous, and only capable of vain repetitions. This need not be so, however, and in the following chapters I shall take care that it is not so. A severely practical, careful 7-63m of what is known and proved, and a concise account of what the writer has himself experienced, need not come under the category of vain repetition, and may be useful to many learners seeking those almost Parnassian heights, whence the fully initiated smile at the scofiers and mockers of the art which Byron so ill-naturedly termed that solitary vice. And, indeed, there are several other reasons why a dissertation on practical angling may not be unwelcome. The price of every really capable work on the subject is generally prohibitory to that class of persons who make the art their chief recreation during the intervals of work at the mill or factory, counter or desk. To such what I have to say will I hope at least be interesting, and it is to such chie¿y that I shall address myself. It would probably be presumption on my part to suppose I could say anything on so trite a subject which would enlighten those who have the power of consulting a whole library of fishing authors, whose chief merit, however, seems to be prolixity. The importance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.