On 29 Jun, 2005, at 2:41, Niclas Runarsson wrote:
To the people of more wisdom than me (meaning: People with SOME
trace of
wisdom). I have a question. Stupid... then so be it. It's no loss,
since
noone has called me a genious yet
Been wondering about something a while now and that thing is 'Game
Fishing'.
I can't recall having read about it in American literature. It
wasn't until
I started to read Fly-Fishing And Fly-Tying (Scottish) that I saw
it. There
it's to be read in practically every other sentence. But even
though the
term takes up 10% of the words in a magazine, I have still not
figured out
WHAT it is... and why I don't read it in American literature.
Feudal. Class society. Archaic. Etc. ;-)
Back in the dark ages, there was game, small game, game birds. All
for hunting (or stalking or shooting, as the Brits make differences
in these branches of hunting, where germanic languages don't). All
for the nobility. Then there was fishing, for game species, which was
again reserved for the nobility, and for 'course' species, which was
allowed for the common people. Historically, game fishing in the
British isles included salmon and trout; it has since been extended
to grayling too. Anything else is coarse (roach, rudd, bream, carp,
pike, etc.).
The Americans extended the concept to include all fishable species.
There's no such thing in the US as game fishing vs. coarse fishing,
but there are game fish vs. non-game fish.
Henk
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