Pike fishing. Red letter days-and others with hints on salmon fishing
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is part of: Hawthorn Fly Fishing & Angling Collection
creator: Gray, Thomas Seccombe
issued: 2020-03-27
issued: 1923
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extent: 228 pages, frontispiece : illustrations, plates ; 23 cm
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note: THE LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Harry Hawthorn Foundation for the Inculcation & Propagation of the Principles & Ethics of Fly-Fishing PIKE FISHING RED LETTER DAYS—AND OTHERS WITH HINTS ON SALMON FISHING Z o o •53 I en 1 PIKE FISHING RED LETTER DAYS—AND OTHERS WITH HINTS ON SALMON PISHING TOM SECCOMBE GRAY ('•'Silver Devon") With a FOREWORD by R. B. MARSTON Editor of "The Pishing Gazette" HEATH GRANTON LIMITED 6 FLEET LANE LONDON E.C. 4 First published in 1923 Printed in Great Britain for Heath Cranton Limited by The Northumberland Press Limited^ Waterloo House Thornton Street\ Newcastle-on.Tyne To MY FATHER AUTHOR'S PREFACE In the Book of 1 the Preacher " it is written: "Of making many books there is no end." Surely this is true, and very true of angling. However many books could a man acquire on our most fascinating sport? But the word " sport " does not truly describe it. Only a part of it. Fishing is more than a sport, it's a hobby, a solace, a recreation, an intensely interesting portion in a man's life. Perhaps outside the greatest things, the most absorbing interest in life there is. Books on fishing! What on earth do you want to try to write another for? you may well say. One has been trying to catch tbe feelings of writers of books. Wondering how, and where they write. What on earth do they put in the preface. And so on. Well, I don't know. I do know just this, that, in one's own mind, for example, an edition of the Fishing Gazette with an article on pike fishing is a " best edition." Often enough it has to be put aside till " a more convenient season,'* but the more eagerly looked forward to because of that article. Somehow one has the idea that this truly sporting fish has been slighted and never put in his due place of honour. Moreover, there was an inclination that, 1 AUTHOR'S PREFACE however futile, an attempt at a book in praise of pike should be written. Then one day, one of the best anglers I know said to me, I Why don't you write a bo…
has type: Books
identifier: SH691.P6 G7 1923
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0389649
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Heath, Cranton, limited
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source: University of British Columbia. Library. Woodward Library. Harry Hawthorn Collection. SH691.P6 G7 1923
subject: Pike fishing
subject: Salmon fishing
type: Text