Show I WHAT IS ANGLING Exchange Just what Is angling Justices of Bangor refused to convict two men who were charged with taking trout in Lord waters by the use of night lines Jines The They refused be because because cause the Information alleged that the accused had taken the fish otherwise than b by Dame Vernon in the fifteenth cen century century tury and the Flying Fishers Guido Guide of 1828 say that in angling there must be a rod and a stump or peg Is surely not a rod Angle means in Anglo Saxon hook The dictionaries as a rule give loose definitions of angling The Standard says sayo It is the act ct or part of fishing with a ith a rod I T D In his Secrets of Angling tates directions for making the line Then get good hair so that it be not black Neither of mare nor gelding let it be beNor beNor Nor of the tue that bears the pack But of some lusty horse or courser free Whose bushy tall tail upon the ground doth track Like blazing comet that sometimes we see But J D JS is hot quotable for or legal purposes It is not fair to say that in angling if there be a hook at one end there should be a human being not necessarily Dr Johnsons the other and not a dull indifferent inanimate peg I |