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“Trout-Fishing for the Beginner” is a fantastic guide to fishing for trout, including chapters on the various methods that can be employed, the equipment required, possible locations, and much more. Written in simple, clear language and illustrated throughout, this book is perfect for beginners and will appeal to trout fishers new and old. Contents include: “The Trout”, “Appearance and Surroundings”, “Spawning and Growth”, “Vision, Hearing, and Smell”, “Feeding”, “Is Fishing Cruel”, “The Seasons: When and Where to Fish”, “Drainage, Poachers, Fishing as a National Asset”, Artificial Fly Fishing”, “Up Stream Fishing”, “Downstream Fishing”, “The Month of May”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fishing.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	28 juin 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528768443
Langue	English

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TROUT - FISHING
FOR THE BEGINNER
BY
RICHARD CLAPHAM
WITH TWENTY-TWO DIAGRAMS BY THE AUTHOR
Copyright 2018 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.
By the same Author
F OX -H UNTING ON THE L AKELAND F ELLS
R OUGH S HOOTING .
T HE B OOK OF THE O TTER
DEDICATED
TO MY WIFE
WHO HAS BEEN MY COMPANION ON MANY A PLEASANT TROUTING EXPEDITION
PREFACE
Although anglers are well supplied with books pertaining to their favourite sport, the majority of such volumes appeals more to the practised fisherman than the novice. Many a beginner, however, is dependent on books for information regarding trout-fishing and the tools of the craft, and naturally expects to find simple hints that will start him on the road to success.
The acquisition of an ill-balanced rod and unsuitable tackle tends to engender a slovenly method of fishing that is absolutely detrimental to good sport. A fair start, with a few simple but correct items of outfit, is everything; the proper methods will then be cultivated from the beginning. It is, therefore, with the idea of helping the beginner that I have written this book, and I hope the information contained therein may prove useful to prospective anglers of both sexes.
R. CLAPHAM.
T ROUTBECK ,
W INDERMERE .
CONTENTS
P REFACE
C HAPTER I
THE TROUT
SECTS.
1. Appearance and Surroundings
2. Spawning and Growth
3. Vision, Hearing and Smell
4. Feeding
5. Is Fishing Cruel?
6. The Seasons: When and Where to Fish
7. Drainage, Poachers, etc.; Fishing a National Asset
C HAPTER II
ARTIFICIAL FLY-FISHING
1. The Supremacy of Fly-Fishing over other Kinds, as an Art and a Sport
2. Upstream Fishing
3. Downstream Fishing
4. The Month of May; and Mayflies
C HAPTER III
THE ANGLER S OUTFIT
1. The Rod
2. The Reel
3. The Line
4. The Cast and Gut
5. The Position of the Flies on the Cast; Wet Fly and Dry Fly Fishing
6. Knots
7. Always Soak your Gut
8. Fly-Book, Basket and Landing-Net
9. The Catherine Wheel Holder; the Landing-Net Carrier; the Cast Damper
10. Waders
C HAPTER IV
ARTIFICIAL FLIES
1. Two Theories why Fish take the Artificial Fly
2. Size and Shape in an Artificial Fly are of more importance in deceiving a Fish than Colour and minor Details
3. The Exact Imitationistic Fly and the Impressionistic ; Two different Theories of Fishing
4. The Hackle
5. Wet Flies (or Flies to Gut); The Gut and Hook
6. Dry Flies: The Hackle and Hook
7. Fly Patterns
C HAPTER V
WET AND DRY FLY FISHING
1. Casting the Fly
2. Wet Fly Fishing: Fishing Downstream and Playing a Fish
3. Upstream Fishing; and Where to Fish
4. Wind
5. Keep your Flies in the Water
6. Dry Fly Fishing: Outfit and Method
7. Dry Fly Technique
8. Fine and as near as you can
C HAPTER VI
WORM AND MINNOW FISHING
1. Worm and Minnow Fishing
2. Worm Fishing: Outfit
3. Worm Fishing: Method; Flooded and Clear Water
4. Spinning or Fishing the Minnow: Outfit
5. Spinning: Casting and Working the Minnow
6. Spinning Upstream
C HAPTER VII
MAYFLY AND LAKE FISHING
1. The Mayfly and the Stonefly
2. Fishing with the Natural and Artificial Mayfly
3. Fishing with the Natural and Artificial Stonefly
4. Lake Fishing: Outfit
5. Where to look for Fish
6. Trolling (or Harling)
C HAPTER VIII
NIGHT FISHING
1. The Angler s Opportunity
2. Flies and Method on the River
3. Night Fishing with Gentles on Lakes
DIAGRAMS
FIGURE

1.
Double Water Knot
2.
Double Fisherman s Knot
3.
Attaching a Dropper Fly
4.
Attaching a Dropper Fly
5.
Attaching a Tail Fly
6.
Attaching an Eyed Fly to