BOOKS FOR ANGLERS
Sir-I should like to congratulate those responsible for the splendid anthology compiled from angling writings presented from 3YC on a recent Sunday. Both selection and presentation were excellent. Towards the end of the programme, however, was an opinion over which I should like to break a lance (or should it be a rod-tip?). The speaker considered that, despite the increased popularity of "the contemplative man’s recreation," surprisingly few men had followed Walton’s example and set down their experiences and thoughts on paper. Now, if there is one thing (other than fishing) for which anglers should feel grateful, it is the literature of their sport. Surely for extent, diversity and quality no other pastime can produce such wealth, and when one regretfully puts-"up one’s rods in the autumn, such reading keeps the sport alive through the winter and helps to make each spring and the new season more welcome than the last. ‘Space precludes a truly representative list, but it could include such notables as Charles Cotton (it has been said that "Walton without Cotton is like good manners without meat"), and a long list from the 15th Century to the present day. Poets such as Gay, Thomson, John Dennys and Pope, scientists such as Sir Humphrey Davy, clergymen,
medical men and at least one cook have written on fishing, while two politicians in Viscount Grey and J. W. Hills have written books which are gems. In addition there are the more technical writers such as Halford and Skues whose books have an appeal to novice and expert
alike.
TAPERED
CAST
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 5
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264BOOKS FOR ANGLERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 5
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