"Treatise of Fishing with an Angle"

[Backwater Eddy]

The first publication in the English language on angling was first brought to light in the year 1496, by a nun Dame Juliana Berners.

(I wonder if she is one of Juls' ancestors?

In the recent In-Fisherman article entitled "The Great she" the story of this early publication came to my attention. Finding this intriguing I did some looking and I was pleased to have found its text on line with the original illustrations. Very interesting reading and it is remarkable how old truths are still thought of as new theory's today.

Well worth the read.


http://personal.riverusers.com/~flyfishing/fishing.html

Who ever said women can't fish?

:D


Backwater Eddy............><,,>

[Vickie]

I'd really like to know, too -- who said women can't fish.

It must have been the MAN that the WOMAN out fished!!:)

Sorry I couldn't resist. Vickie

[Backwater Eddy]

Yup, it was him, thats who, not me.

:D

I know better!

[Backwater Eddy]

I like the humor hidden in this old book, like how to catch pike using a goose for instance (page 2), that kills me! I may need to give it a try?

This nun must have been fun?

:D

[curt quesnell]

wow!!!!!what fun.

how bout that last paragraph...where she says.....




And so that this present treatise should not come into the hands of every idle person who would desire it if it were printed alone by itself and put in a little pamphlet, therefore I have compiled it in a greater volume of diverse books concerning gentle and noble men, to the end that the aforesaid idle persons which should have but little measure in the said sport of fishing should not by this means utterly destroy it.


if it were written today....it would include boat ramps as another
thing to try to exclude from "every idle person"


thanks for the heads up eddie.



curt quesnell

[curt quesnell]

how bout the part where you cut the feet off of the frog...

eeewwwwwwwwwww

curt quesnell

[curt quesnell]

the bait under the cow turd can stay under the cow turd.


curt quesnell

[Fun Nun]

Now we know what Nuns have under their habits, a fishing rod.

;)

[Denied]

:)

[Cangl]

Whew just a thought but would fishing with "angels" be legal, might be a firm tournament advantage that not enough of us use nowadays?

Faith, Family, Freedom, and Fishing