Sea Fishing - Whippings, Servings, Knots, Hooks And Sundry Wrinkles

John Bickerdyke

Description

This early sea fishing handbook is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. A concise look at whippings, servings, knots, hooks and sundry wrinkles that will prove of great interest to the fishing enthusiast and historian of the sport. Contains a wealth of information that is still useful and practical today. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Sujets

• Sport
• Autour du sport
• Histoire du sport
• Autres sports
• Sports de plein air
• Sports
• Fishing
• Recreation

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 06 mai 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781473394315
• Langue: English

Extrait

SEA FISHING
WHIPPINGS, SERVINGS, KNOTS, HOOKS AND SUNDRY WRINKLES
BY
JOHN BICKERDYKE
Copyright 2013 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Contents
Introduction to Sea Fishing
WHIPPINGS, SERVINGS, KNOTS, HOOKS, AND SUNDRY WRINKLES
Introduction to Sea Fishing
Fishing is an incredibly ancient practice that dates back to at least the beginning of the Paleolithinc period, about 40,000 years ago. Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. Archaeological features such as shell middens, discarded fish bones and cave paintings show that sea foods were important for survival and consumed in significant quantities. During this period, most people lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and were, of necessity, constantly on the move. However, where there are early examples of permanent settlements (though not necessarily permanently occupied) such as those at Lepenski Vir (an important Mesolithic archaeological site located in Serbia in the central Balkan peninsula), they are almost always associated with fishing as a major source of food.
Perhaps the earliest wide scale evidence of our employment of sea fishing in particular, comes from the ancient Greeks. Seafood played a central role in the food culture of Greeks, though fishing scenes are rarely represented in their art, a reflection of the low social status of the occupation. Oppian of Corycus, a well-known Greek author, wrote a major treatise on sea fishing; the Halieulica or Halieutika , composed between 177 and 180. This is the earliest such work to have survived to the modern day. The Romans were also frequent sea-fishers, and the main evidence of this practice in their society comes from surviving mosaics. The Roman god of the sea, Neptune, is a figure which lives on in fishing folklore even today. Fish was an integral part of early civilisations protein sources, and the Moche people of ancient Peru showed this importance by frequently depicting sea-fishermen on their beautiful ceramics.
When fishing from a boat, or fishing vessel, almost any fishing technique can be used, from nets to fish traps, but some form of angling is by far the most common. Compared to fishing from the land, fishing from a boat allows more access to different fishing grounds and different species of fish. Offshore game fish, like marlin and tuna, can be very large and heavy tackle is needed. Such fishing is usually done with sea rods, such as downtide rods, with lines of 30 to 50 pounds and multiplier reels. Baits are the same as for inshore fishing and include squid and whole mackerel as well as artificial lures such as perks. Fishing takes place over reefs and wrecks for very large cod, ling and congers. Inshore boat fishing is fishing from a boat in easy sight of land and in water less than about 30 metres deep, whereas, predictably, offshore boat fishing , sometimes called deep sea or open water fishing, is fishing in deep water and at some distance from land.