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This vintage work contains a comprehensive guide to fishing for pike, with information on methods, equipment, common problems, trolling, and much more. Written in simple, clear language and full of useful and often interesting information, this text is ideal for the novice, and will also be of some utility to more experienced anglers and those with a general interest in the sport. The chapters of this volume include: 'The Methods', 'The Art of Spinning', 'Spinning Baits and Other Lures', 'The Hooks', 'The Gaff', 'Natural Baits and the Method of their Preservation', 'Playing the Fish', 'Seasons and Weathers', 'Trolling with the Dead Gorge-Bait', 'Snap Trolling', 'Live-Baiting', et cetera. This antiquarian book is being republished now with a new specially-commissioned introduction on the history of fishing.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	06 septembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781473351707
Langue	English

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PIKE FISHING
By
Dr. W. J. Turrell
With illustrations in line half-tone
Copyright 2013 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
A Short History of Fishing
Fishing, in its broadest sense - is the activity of catching fish. It is an ancient practice dating back at least 40,000 years. Since the sixteenth century fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish and since the nineteenth century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board. Techniques for catching fish include varied methods such as hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping.
Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000 year old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. As well as this, archaeological features such as shell middens, discarded fish-bones and cave paintings show that sea foods were important for early man s survival and were consumed in significant quantities. The first civilisation to practice organised fishing was the Egyptians however, as the River Nile was so full of fish. The Egyptians invented various implements and methods for fishing and these are clearly illustrated in tomb scenes, drawings and papyrus documents. Simple reed boats served for fishing. Woven nets, weir baskets made from willow branches, harpoons and hook and line (the hooks having a length of between eight millimetres and eighteen centimetres) were all being used. By the twelfth dynasty, metal hooks with barbs were also utilised.
Despite the Egyptian s strong history of fishing, later Greek cultures rarely depicted the trade, due to its perceived low social status. There is a wine cup however, dating from c.500 BC, that shows a boy crouched on a rock with a fishing-rod in his right hand and a basket in his left. In the water below there is a rounded object of the same material with an opening on the top. This has been identified as a fish-cage used for keeping live fish, or as a fish-trap. One of the other major Grecian sources on fishing is Oppian of Corycus, who wrote a major treatise on sea fishing, the Halieulica or Halieutika , composed between 177 and 180. This is the earliest such work to have survived intact to the modern day. Oppian describes various means of fishing including the use of nets cast from boats, scoop nets held open by a hoop, spears and tridents, and various traps which work while their masters sleep. Oppian s description of fishing with a motionless net is also very interesting:

The fishers set up very light nets of buoyant flax and wheel in a circle round about while they violently strike the surface of the sea with their oars and make a din with sweeping blow of poles. At the flashing of the swift oars and the noise the fish bound in terror and rush into the bosom of the net which stands at rest, thinking it to be a shelter: foolish fishes which, frightened by a noise, enter the gates of doom. Then the fishers on either side hasten with the ropes to draw the net ashore . . .
The earliest English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496, shortly after the invention of the printing press! Unusually for the time, its author was a woman; Dame Juliana Berners, the prioress of the Benedictine Sopwell Nunnery (Hertforshire). The essay was titled Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle and was published in a larger book, forming part of a treatise on hawking, hunting and heraldry. These were major interests of the nobility, and the publisher, Wynkyn der Worde was concerned that the book should be kept from those who were not gentlemen, since their immoderation in angling might utterly destroye it. The roots of recreational fishing itself go much further back however, and the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a fourth century AD work entitled Lives of Famous Mortals .
Many credit the first recorded use of an artificial fly (fly fishing) to an even earlier source - to the Roman Claudius Aelianus near the end of the second century. He described the practice of Macedonian anglers on the Astraeus River, . . . they have planned a snare for the fish, and get the better of them by their fisherman s craft. . . . They fasten red wool round a hook, and fit on to the wool two feathers which grow under a cock s wattles, and which in colour are like wax. Recreational fishing for sport or leisure only really took off during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries though, and coincides with the publication of Izaak Walton s The Compleat Angler in 1653. This is seen as the definitive work that champions the position of the angler who loves fishing for the sake of fishing itself. More than 300 editions have since been published, demonstrating its unstoppable popularity.
Big-game fishing only started as a sport after the invention of the motorised boat. In 1898, Dr. Charles Frederick Holder, a marine biologist and early conservationist, virtually invented this sport and went on to publish many articles and books on the subject. His works were especially noted for their combination of accurate scientific detail with exciting narratives. Big-game fishing is also a recreational pastime, though requires a largely purpose built boat for the hunting of large fish such as the billfish (swordfish, marlin and sailfish), larger tunas (bluefin, yellowfin and bigeye), and sharks (mako, great white, tiger and hammerhead). Such developments have only really gained prominence in the twentieth century. The motorised boat has also meant that commercial fishing, as well as fish farming has emerged on a massive scale. Large trawling ships are common and one of the strongest markets in the world is the cod trade which fishes roughly 23,000 tons from the Northwest Atlantic, 475,000 tons from the Northeast Atlantic and 260,000 tons from the Pacific.
These truly staggering amounts show just how much fishing has changed; from its early hunter-gatherer beginnings, to a small and specialised trade in Egyptian and Grecian societies, to a gentleman s pastime in fifteenth century England right up to the present day. We hope that the reader enjoys this book, and is inspired by fishing s long and intriguing past to find out more about this truly fascinating subject. Enjoy.

Plate 1
THE PIKE ( Esox lucius) NOTE THE PERFECT STREAMLINE SHAPE, THE POSITION OF THE LARGE DORSAL AND ANAL FINS AND THE POWERFUL CAUDAL FIN .
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
THE PIKE
CHAPTER TWO
PIKE-FISHING
T HE M ETHODS
T HE A RT OF S PINNING
The Rod
The Reel or Winch
The Line
Care of the Line
The Lead
The Trace
S PINNING B AITS O THER L URES
T HE H OOKS
T HE G AFF
N ATURAL B AITS THE M ETHOD OF THEIR P RESERVATION
CHAPTER THREE
PIKE-FISHING ( continued )
T HE A RT OF S PINNING
The Strike
Playing the Fish
S EASONS W EATHER
T ROLLING WITH THE D EAD G ORGE -B AIT
S NAP T ROLLING
L IVE-BAITING
P ATERNOSTERING
PLATES
1. T HE P IKE
2. P IKE S PINNING R ODS
3. S PINNING FOR P IKE
TEXT DIAGRAMS
1 2.
F ASTENING W IRE TO THE R ING OF S WIVEL
3 4.
T O TIE A RTIFICIAL G UT TO A S WIVEL
5 6.
T HE B ROMLEY -P ENNELL F LIGHT
7.
T HE A BBEY M ILLS S PINNER
8 , 9 , 10 , 11 . 12 , 13 , 14 .
D R . P ENNY S R UBBER B AIT FOR S ALMON , T ROUT P IKE
15, 16, 17 .
M ETHODS OF A TTACHING W INCH TO R OD
18 .
A G ORGE T ROLLING H OOK
19 20 .
S NAP T ROLLING T ACKLE
21 .
T HE P ERFECTED J ARDINE S NAP -T ACKLE FOR L IVE-BAITING
22 .
P ATTERN OF P ATERNOSTER FITTED WITH D OUBLE -L INK H OOKS TO ADMIT OF READY D ETACHMENT OF L EAD OR THE B AIT -H OOK
CHAPTER ONE
THE PIKE
Esox lucius
THE pike ( Esox lucius ) is the only species of this small order which is found in Britain at the present day, though four other species are found in North America. The body is elongated, the head is flat on top, and the eyes are placed high on it so that the gaze is constantly directed upwards, the mouth is large with the lower jaw longer than the top.
The teeth on the lower jaw, though few, are large and extremely sharp. The praemaxillary teeth are small. There are three parallel rows of teeth on the roof of the mouth, the middle row being on the vomer and the others on the palatine bones. These teeth, which are depressible, enable the pike to swallow its prey easily, but effectively prevent its escape, in which they are ably assisted by a row of teeth on the tongue. There are no teeth on the maxillaries.
The tail is well forked, large and very powerful. The placing of the fins will be seen clearly in the frontispiece.
The colour is a dark brownish green fading almost to white on the belly. With the exception of the pectoral and ventral the fins are dark reddish brown, the two former being paler. There are white spots and darker bands on the sides and black spots on the fins. The colours in the young fish are several shades of very delicate greens, olive-green, and a sort of gold; the bars upon the flanks, like the shadows cast by reeds growing in the water, are deep olive and rich golden yellow.
Each pike remains for the greater part of the year in one part of the river or lake in which he lives. At the end of the autumn or beginning of the winter he pairs with a female of about his own size or perhaps more often larger, and at this time pairs of a male and a female fish may frequently be caught one after the other. Sometime between February and April they leave the open water and make their way to their spawning ground, which is usually a weed-bed in some shallow or backwater. The eggs are very numerous, and Frank Buckland speaks of a female of 35 lb. which contained nearly 600,000 eggs. The eggs hatch out in anything from ten days to three weeks, and after about a fortnight the yolk-s