"The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle" is available online at; http://www.farreaches.org/fishing/treatyse_index.html
as well as at several other sites. A nice discussion of how to make your own hooks 1450 style Ed Engelman www.EdEngelman.com -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:26:39 -0700 Subject: Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY > Wonder if he is going to fish with it or eat it??..;-). Sounds like > a good book. Jimi > > "And how you should make your rod skillfully, I will tell you. You > must cut, between Michaelmas and Candlemas, a fair, smooth staff six > feet long, or longer if you wish, of hazel, willow or aspen; and > heat it in an oven when you bake, and set it as exactly straight as > you can make it; then let it cool and dry for four weeks or maore. > Then take it and bind it tight with a good cord to a bench or to an > exactly squared timber. Then take a plumber's wire that is straight > and strong and sharp at one end. Heat the sharp end in a charcoal > fire till it is hot, and pierce the shaft with it through the pith > of the shaft -- first at one end and then at the other until it is > all the way through. Then take a bird spit and burn the hole as you > think fit, until it is big enough for your purpose and like a taper > of wax; and then wax it. .... "In the same season, take a rod of > white hazel and beath it even and straight, and let it dry in the > same way as the staff; and when they are dry, make the rod fit the > hole in the said staff..." > > "The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle" (1450) as modernized in "The > Origins of Angling" by John McDonald (1963 Doubleday) > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/05 ------- End of Original Message -------
