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Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" (fish hook). The hook is usually attached to a fishing line and the line is often attached to a fishing rod.
Works
[edit]- The Complete Angler, 5th edition, 1676 by Izaak Walton
- "Prehistoric Fishing," by W. M. Beauchamp in Science, volume 5, no. 120, May 22, 1885
- Proclamation 5656, May 15, 1987, by President Ronald Reagan declaring "National Fishing Week"
Fiction
[edit]- The Angler, 1819 by Washington Irving
Verse
[edit]- "Fishing", by John Newbery in A Little Pretty Pocket-book, 1767
- Fishing, 1913 by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Country's Recreations, by Henry Wotton
- The Bait, by John Donne
- An Angler, by William Browne
Reference
[edit]- "Angling," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
- "Fishing," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
- "Angling," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Angling," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Angling," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Angling," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)