Fishing from the earliest times - Blog

468 CHINESE FISHINGglided down stream, quietly drove the lower reaches, andshepherded the fishes towards our angler's bait.Like his Chinese brother, the British angler,when he goesa-fishing, carries a flask : unlike him, he does not, and cannot,unless he have the grand accommodation of a Loch Levenboatman thirty years ago, " drink and fish by equal turns."Even if the difficulty of equal drinking turn by turn on thepart of the sportsman and sprite be overcome, it is doubtfulwhether a British angler, however adaptive and alert to learn,can in these days ensure a full creel by adopting Hsii's tip,having regard to the scanty stock and prohibitive price ofwhisky. Whether in the near or even far future the recipecan be thoroughly tested lies on the niggard lap of the Boardof Control.