Old Fishing Tackle
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About this book
When Izaak Walton went fishing in the seventeenth century he was equipped with no more than a long, tapered rod with a horsehair line tied to the end and a baited hook. Hazel, hickory and other coppice woods were used for rods, and the construction, of tapering sections lashed together, was quite refined. But although reels had been invented it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that the ‘wynch’ became more than an instrument for storing the fisherman’s line.
Paperback; April 1995; 32 pages; ISBN: 9780747802785