THE EDDYSTONE

the turn of 1900 sea angling with rod and line had become a major recreational pastime with its stronghold being the fishing towns and coastline along the English Channel. Seven years earlier the British Sea Anglers’ Society had been formed and had its headquarters in London’s Fetter Lane off Fleet Street. The membership was principally drawn from the better off and outright wealthy and it had great flair. Angling writers of the time including Frederick Aflalo, who was its founder, and F.D. Holcombe, who between 1900 and 1925 was its secretary. During a visit to England in 1912 Charles Frederick Holder, who had founded the Catalina Tuna Club, addressed the Society