The Rod in India: Being Hints How to Obtain Sport, With Remarks on the Natural History of Fish and Their Culture, and Illustrations of Fish and Tackle (Classic Reprint)

As theS econd Edition of this book was, in comparison with the First Edition, nearly half of it a new book, so the Third Edition makes a further stride in the like direction with more than a third of new matter. New fish are introduced, with new methods of capture. Most of the previous full page lithographs are reproduced reduced by photography to the size of the present handier volume, and two new plates of fish are added. Endeavouring to give my readers the advantage of all theE nglish improvements in tackle that I thought applicable to I ndia, I have accompanied them with ninety-six illustrations thereof, thinking such a manner of representation more explanatory than any amount of letterpress, and specially so to the far distant Indian angler who cannot enlighten himself by visiting a tackle-shop and judging from personal inspection. Not a few of these illustrations have been presented to me, as particularized below by name of donor, with page on which they appear. Still, while thoroughly acknowledging my indebtedness for the courtesies named, I desire to add that in admitting these illustrations to my pages I have, as ever, had one only consideration, the interests of the angler. The above additions to the size of the book have brought fresh cause for curtailment in other directions. So I have pruned here and there, and have thrown out two whole chapters on Pisciculture in sea and fresh water, as having only a secondary interest to some anglers, and because, from retirement, I can no longer do anything for Pisciculture in I ndia.
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