Fishing Gossip

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Excerpt from Fishing Gossip: Or Stray Leaves From the Note-Books of Several AnglersWasn't Sir Isaac Newton, like his great piscatorial namesake, master of the art of catching gudgeon? As well as Bacon, Gay, Cecil, Hollinshed, and a host of other celebrities? Why, even our neighbours over the Channel take naturally to it. Moule's Fish Heraldry tells us that it was the cognisance of John Goujon, one of the first French sculptors of the Sixteenth cen tury, and old Salter says that in the waters round Ghent it is the general practice to angle for it with a bit of raw sheep's liver. (how a Thames gudgeon would turn up his nose at such a plebeian bait 1)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.