Fishing Gear - an excerpt about pike fishing rods from 1885
Fishing Gear. What were they saying about it way back when?
PIKE-TACKLE. SPINNING AND TROLLING-RODS.
An idea — happily now nearly exploded — has prevailed amongst trollers since the time of Nobbes of the Dark Ages, that a pike-rod should necessarily be a clumsy rod — a thick, unwieldy, weighty, top-heavy weapon — in fact, a sort of cross between a hop-pole and a clothes-prop.
Whatever our pike-fishing ancestors may have been in the matter of skill, it cannot be denied that their rods and angling gear generally were in every way vastly inferior to our own, Read the rest of this entry »
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