Literature of sea and river fishing by Manley John Jackson & International Fisheries Exhibition ( (1883 : London England)

Author:Manley, John Jackson & International Fisheries Exhibition ( (1883 : London, England)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fishing
Publisher: London : W. Clowes Sons
Published: 1883-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

manual compiler, adding that he is " never servile, nor plagiaristic, always honest, sometimes a little surly." He touches on the still vexed question of the mixture of silk and hair in fishing-lines, declaring in favour of " all of hair or all of silk." The following recipe for an unguent to allure fish, and its use cannot fail to provoke a smile :—

" Of Man's Fat, Cat's Fat, Heron's Fat, and of the best Assa-foetida, of each two Drams; Mummy, finely powdered, two Drams; Cummin-seed finely powdered, two Scruples, and of Camphor, Galbanum, and Venice Turpentine of each one Dram; Civet-grains two. Make according to Art, all into an indifferent thin Oyntment, with the Chymical Oyls of Lavender, Annise, and Camomil, of each an equal quantity, and keep the same in a narrow-mouthed and well-glassed galley-pot close covered with a Bladder and Leather; and when you go to Angle, take some of it in a small pewter Box, made taper, and anoint eight inches of the Line next the Hook therewith, and when washed off repeat the same. This Oyntment which for its excellency, Unguentum Piscatorum mirabile, prodigiously causes Fish to bite, if in the hand of an Artist that angles within water, and in proper Seasons and Times, and with suitable Tackle and Baits fit and proper for the River, Season and Fish he designs to catch. The Man's Fat you may get of the London Chyrurgeons, &c. * * * * I forbore (for some reasons) to insert the same in my fifth edition ; but now since its' divulged, value it not the less, but treat it as a jewel."

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