The Complete Angler

[RoryGoggin]

Amongst all of you pompous, perpetually pontificating, para-professional perennially pathetically Pavlovian piscatorial picadors might there be ONE that has read "The Compleat Angler" and could tell me if it is true, as I have previously been told, that it is as relevant today as it was the day it was written? (and if you didn't understand what I just asked, the answer is "no", so don't sweat it.) ;)

[rattler]

to many p's in one sentence...no fishing for 2 days... :eek:...don't believe everything you read...brack that ice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Green Cart]

The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative man's Recreation printed 1653. :D

[shaggy]

Don't know about that one, but have a copy of Surf Fishing by Vlad Evanoff, copyright 1948, and though the equipment involved has progressed greatly, many of the technigues are still applicable today. Me, figure fishing doesn't change a whole lot, just the tools of the trade, bamboo to graphite rods, fishing line and hooks etc.

Anyhow, weather looking pretty good the next couple of days, so may be wetting some lines.

Have Jeep wil travel :D

[RuddeDogg]

Fishing is fishing, the basic technique is the same. The equipment has just improved.

[J_Lannon]

ummm.......aahhh.. hmmmf What it is that you said? ;)

[sand flea]

I'm guessing you're talking about the Izaak Walton book. (The title actually uses an archaic spelling: The Compleat Angler ).

I've never been able to wade through it. He was the first in a long line of outdoors writers who use too much purple prose. :p

For anyone who wants to take a crack at it, Project Gutenberg publishes the entire text (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/tcang10.txt).

[Big EL]

Amongst all of you pompous, perpetually pontificating, para-professional perennially pathetically Pavlovian piscatorial picadors might there be ONE that has read "The Complete Angler" and could tell me if it is true, as I have previously been told, that it is as relevant today as it was the day it was written? (and if you didn't understand what I just asked, the answer is "no", so don't sweat it.) ;)

I would say that it is still relevant today :)

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[Dixie719]

Where you been Big El????

Nice to see you back!!

[Big EL]

how ta get my butt outa this office and back on da beach :mad:

Working is kinda like fishin, when yer catchin ya don't take a break and after the last 3 months I need ta fill da cooler up ;)

Been out on the Sally T lately??

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[Dixie719]

Not yet, but Jon has been talking with Pete about getting out again soon.

Ho'ing tommorrow for some Tog with a friend..God I am hoping for some pullage!

[RoryGoggin]

Yup, that's the one - and people call me anal! OK, so I changed the spelling to match the original! :p

I found this site (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/walton/) to retain the flavor of the original better than the Project Gutenberg version.

I agree Sand Flea - really tough reading at times. Can't read it in big chunks - though I'd love to get my hands on a hard copy. It's just fun to read sometimes, and I think that those times when I'm "relaxing on the pier not really fishing but pretending to by sitting there with a double-drop bottom rig on the bottom because the fish aren't biting and it's too hot to move much anyway" would be a neat time to crack open a beer and that book.

Sally-T - I keep looking at her every time I'm down Willoughby way - which seems to be fairly often lately. ;)

Going to have to give her a try sometime.

ummm.......aahhh.. hmmmf What it is that you said? ;)

I'm not sure now - I was drunk when I wrote that. :cool: