Anglers' evenings : papers by members of the Manchester Anglers' Association : third series

Manchester Anglers' Association

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• Fishing
• Great Britain

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• Langue: English
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ANGLERS' Evenings.
Papers by Members of the Manchester
Anglers' Association.
THIRD SERIES.
Oldham Street.Abel Heywood and Son, 56 and 58,
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Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.,SiMPKiN,
Stationers' Hall Court.
1894.INTRODUCTION.
Fifteen years ago the Manchester Anglers' Associa-
tion entrusted to me the pleasant task of editing the
"first series of Anglers' Evenings." They have now a
second time honoured me with the same commission as
regards this, the third series, and, as on the former
occasion, I have been requested to vicariously make
the preliminary bow to that wider circle of brothers
angleof the to whom the volume is offered.
After such an interval, a tendency to somewhat
dreamy retrospection is not unnatural. The book
itself suggests retrospection. Some of the contributors
to the first series have contributed also to the present
series, but at least one is conspicuously absent. The
olddear Colonel who led the way with his exhor-
tation to to "let patience have her work,"us perfect
sleeps well at Irton, beside the salmon river he loved.
Things have progressed since In the first1879.
onlyvolume one Manchester fisher—the writer on
Norway—described experiences beyond the limits of
IsleGreat Britain and the of Man, though many
wrote of Scotland. There is much of Scotland in the
uspresent volume—the Scotch are ever with —but the
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extended to Ireland,range has been Canada, and
New Zealand. May it not be that the members of
discoveredthe Association have the true method of
" "establishing the union of hearts " and Imperial
?" The first volume was recognised asFederation
very nature abeing in its protest against river
pollution and wanton destruction of natural beauty in
the district from which it emanated the Manchester;
"Ship Canal has since been constructed, a Joint
actively engagedCommittee" is in repressing the
defilement of the Mersey and Irwell and their tribu-
sea-gulls saidtaries, and are to be nesting at Old
Trafiford. Nor have the Manchester Anglers failed to
advance. In wild and lonely Ribblesdale they have
taken charge of miles of romantic water there, like;
Caliban, they make dams for fish, and have not only
replenish the river, but havebuilt a fish-hatchery to
established golf links. Lastly, even the fish appear
to have moved with the times, for nearly every writer
not excepted,in the present volume, he of Norway
dwells on the superior education of the finny tribe of
to-day.
There is one recollection not to be erased from
the Manchester Anglers whothe minds of look
back on the tremulous anxieties and pleasures of
that first appearance before the public fifteen years
ago, and that is, the recollection of the appreciative
reception given to their un-professional venture. The
volume met with no ungenial critic amongst the
many who deigned to notice one, and heit—save