Sunset playgrounds : fishing days and others in California and Canada
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
issued: 2019-01-28
issued: 1909
description: "An Englishman's fishing holiday on Vancouver Island and in the Kamloops area."-- Edwards, M. H., Lort, J. C. R., & Carmichael, W. J. (1975). A bibliography of British Columbia: Years of growth, 1900-1950. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 2.
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extent: xii, 251 pages : frontispiece, photographs ; 23 cm
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note: SUNSET PLAYGROUNDS FISHING DAYS AND OTHERS IN CALIFORNIA AND CANADA * And the men bulk big on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail; And life runs large on the Long Trail—the trail that is always new." F. G. AFLALO WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS WITHERBY & CO. 326 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON 1909 • PREFACE. If, as has been said, all good Americans go to Paris after they die, then assuredly all good fishermen should go to America before, for no other Continent has such amazing resources for their entertainment in river, lake, and sea. The salmon-fishing, it is true, is somewhat restricted, but for other game fishes of both fresh and salt, America is without a rival. Canada alone has scores of lakes and hundreds of streams not yet familiar to the white man, and long at rest from the Indian. California, less untrodden, it is true, than the Land of Snows, is none the less a wonderful fisherman's playground, with lakes and rivers that teem with trout, and with great variety of enormous fishes on its coast, one of them—still, alas, a dream—the elusive object of my happy raid. In each of these widely different countries, going by way of the sunny West Indies, and returning by way of the icy St. Lawrence, I spent some pleasant weeks, following a carefully planned itinerary, save where the gleam of some lake or river that I had not taken into account bade me ♦ / iv PREFACE halt and put my rod together. Needless to say, the finest waters, in which sport still borders on the miraculous draught, lie away at the end of horse-trails out of reach of those who hug the railroad. As a slave of time, I had to deny myself many such excursions, but I did manage to make an occasional side-track of thirty or forty miles to the haunts of fish which still, to their cost, mistake an artificial fly indifferently thrown for an ephemeral native of the water. Even with the limitations of my route, I enjoyed better sport in half-a-dozen weeks than I should have found at home in as many months, and, had on…
note: Includes an index. Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936929709 Part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
has type: Books
identifier: F5019 .A35
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0376208
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Witherby & Co.
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F5019 .A35
subject: United States--Description and travel
subject: Canada--Description and travel
subject: California--Description and travel
subject: Fishing--California
subject: Fishing--British Columbia
type: Text