Let's Go Fishing - A Beginner's Guide to Angling and Fly Fishing, with Tips on Equipment, When and Where to Fish, How to Make Your Own Flies, How to Cast and Much More

Various

• Publisher: Ramsay Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473347113
• Print ISBN:
  9781447453857

This vintage book contains a popular guide to fishing, with information on angling in salt water, angling for course fish, and angling for trout and grayling. Written in clear, simple language and full of interesting information and invaluable hints and tips, this text will be of considerable utility to the novice angler, and may also be of value to those with more experience as a reference book. The chapters of this text include: Watercraft, Roach, Pike, Perch, Chub, Tench, Carp, Bream, Dace, Trout, Grayling, Bass, Conger, Mackerel, Tope, Codling, Black Bream, Whiting, and Dabs and Flounders. This text contains a wealth of illustrations, and makes for a great addition to collections of allied literature. First published in 1946, we are republishing it now complete with a new, specially-commissioned introduction on the history of fishing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• A Short History of Fishing
• Contents
• Fishing as a Sport
• Equipment needed
• Casting and Retrieving
• Hooking, Playing, Landing, Killing and Wading
• Flies and Fly-Making
• Baits and Baiting
• When and Where to Fish
• How to Fish
• Bites and Their Interpretation – Striking and Playing the Fish
• Approaching the Water – Wading – Cover and Background