Even
if you are an American "Angler" you should imagine what is an
"Angel"
Thomas
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I'm wondering about the term "Angle"....Dame Berners (1496) wrote "A treatyse of fysshyng with an angle"; P. Fisher (1835) wrote "The Angler's Souvenir"; and Eric Travener (1933) wrote "Trout Fishing from all Angles", etc. I've associated the term with using a bait or lure to entice fish to bite a hook but how did this use of the term come about.?? We've become known as "Anglers" as a result of the use of this term.
Why did Dame Berners use the term in 1496? What was her angle??
A rod is an angle. Of course, she could have also construed it to be a lever, in which case we'd be referring to ourselves as leverers - not nearly such a picturesque term!
Bob VanAmburg
Kearney, NE
"So much water, so little time"
